The weekend was really terrible. Was down with flu from Friday night till Sunday night. Ash did remark that I work like a donkey day and night the whole week and crash on Friday night ! Barely recovered yesterday night to go to Church and do offshore call.
Genesis 7 / Genesis 8 / Genesis 9
These 3 chapters talk about the Flood and what happens after the flood.
The flood happens when Noah is 600 years old. As instructed by God, Noah takes 7 pairs of ritually clean animals and 2 pairs of unclean animals. 7 days after Noah put everything in the ark as God told him, the flood comes. It says water came from underground and above. The flood continues for 40 days. Even the highest mountains on earth are completely covered with water in the great flood. Rain stops after 40 days but the water doesn't come down for another 150 days.
Interesting to note that in the movie 2012, people come out of the 'ships' to see the outer world after 40 days !
At the end of the flood, the boat comes to rest on Ararat mountain ranges. After 40 days after the 10th month (land begins to appear at the end of 10th month), Noah sends a raven which just circles around and doesn't come back. Then he sends a dove which comes back since it doesn't find any land. He waits for another 7 days and sends the dove again. This time it comes back with the branch of an olive tree. Then he waits for another 7 days, sends the dove again. This time it doesn't come back.
After a year, earth starts to become dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.God tells Noah to come out of the ark with his family and multiply and fill the earth.
He also promises that he will never again put such a curse on Mankind.
God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth. [9:1]. God says that he is placing all the animals and plants under the control of Noah. He says that now Noah can eat animals as well as plants. So it means before this man ate only plants ! So even though Cain gave an animal as offering, he didn't eat it ? May be. So man was a vegetarian first and then non-vegetarian. Vegetarianism is natural. Non-vegetarianism is advanced.
God also places Rainbow as a sign of his covenant with Noah. It is to remind us of his promise that he will never again bring such a big calamity on earth.
So Noah started his new life on earth. He planted a vineyard. Once it so happened that he drank so much that he lost consciousness and was lying down drunk naked. His son Ham saw this and told his brother. His brothers took a robe and covered him. When Noah woke and came to know this, he cursed Ham.
Noah died at the age of 950.
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