What does the Bible say about noahs ark?
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The Bible presents Noah’s ark as God’s appointed means of preserving Noah’s family and the animals through His righteous judgment on a corrupt world, displaying both His holiness and His saving grace. Noah found favor with God and, being righteous by faith, obeyed God’s detailed command to build the ark (Genesis 6:8-9, 6:15, 6:22; Hebrews 11:7). At God’s word, Noah entered with his household and the animals, and the flood came as judgment upon ungodliness (Genesis 7:1, 7:9; 2 Peter 2:5). God remembered Noah, brought the ark to rest, and preserved life (Genesis 8:1, 8:4). The account calls us to trust God’s word, flee coming judgment, and receive His merciful provision of salvation.
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- Hebrews 11:7
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
- Genesis 7:1
Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 7:9
went by pairs to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
- Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 6:15
This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- 2 Peter 2:5
and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
- Genesis 8:1
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Genesis 8:4
The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
- Genesis 6:22
Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.
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