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[[Image:Noah.jpg|thumb|right|Noah]]

[[Image:Noah.jpg|thumb|right|Noah]]

'''Noah''' ([[Hebrew]] '''נוֹחַ'''), the son of  [[Lamech]], was commanded by [[God]] to build an ark to save his family and representatives of all the world's land animals while God destroyed the wicked world with a flood<ref>Gen. 6:6</ref>. The story of Noah is found in the [[Bible]] in chapters 6 to 9 of [[Genesis]], and he is described as one of the "Heroes of Faith" in [[Book of Hebrews|Hebrews]] chapter 11.<ref>He is also mentioned in the [[chronogenealogy]] of Genesis 5 and mentioned by Isaiah and Peter.</ref>

'''Noah''' ([[Hebrew]] '''נוֹחַ'''), the son of  [[Lamech]], was commanded by [[God]] to build an ark, to save his family and representatives of all the world's land animals, while God destroyed the wicked world with a flood<ref>Gen. 6:6</ref>. The story of Noah is found in the [[Bible]], in chapters 6 to 9 of [[Genesis]], and he is described as one of the "Heroes of Faith" in [[Book of Hebrews|Hebrews]] chapter 11.<ref>He is also mentioned in the [[chronogenealogy]] of Genesis 5 and mentioned by Isaiah and Peter.</ref>

== Life ==  

== Life ==  

God saw that man had become wicked in every inclination and thought and the earth was filled with violence, but Noah alone was righteous. God commanded Noah to build an [[Noah's Ark|ark]] that would have seven (or seven pairs) of every "clean" ([[kosher]]) animal and two of every unclean animal Noah did as he was told and spent many years building the ark, and God flooded the earth with rain from above and waters from within the earth.  Noah was 600 years old when the flood started.  After the flood waters had subsided, (which lasted almost a year), Noah came out of the Ark.  Noah made sacrifices to God and God formed a new covenant with Noah where he promised never again to flood the earth.  Noah planted a vineyard and drank of the wine until he fell asleep naked in his tent.  [[Ham]], the father of [[Canaan]], saw him and told his two brothers, but left his father as he was.  The two brothers, upon hearing Ham's pronouncement, took a garment and walked backwards into their father's tent and covered his nakedness without looking at him.  When Noah awoke, he cursed Canaan, his grandson, for he "knew what his younger son had done unto him."<REF>Bible, King James Version, Genesis 9: 24,25</REF>.  Noah lived 350 more years before dying.

God saw that man had become wicked in every inclination, and thought and the earth was filled with violence, but Noah alone was righteous. God commanded Noah to build an [[Noah's Ark|ark]] that would have seven (or seven pairs) of every "clean" ([[kosher]]) animal and two of every unclean animal. Noah did as he was told and spent many years building the ark. When it was completed, God flooded the earth with rain from above and waters from within the earth.  Noah was 600 years old when the flood started.  After the flood waters had subsided, (which lasted almost a year), Noah came out of the Ark.  Noah made sacrifices to God, and God formed a new covenant with Noah where he promised never again to flood the earth.  Noah planted a vineyard, and drank of the wine until he fell asleep naked in his tent.  [[Ham]], the father of [[Canaan]], saw him and told his two brothers, but left his father as he was.  The two brothers, upon hearing Ham's pronouncement, took a garment and walked backwards into their father's tent, and covered his nakedness without looking at him.  When Noah awoke, he cursed Canaan, his grandson, for he "knew what his younger son had done unto him."<REF>Bible, King James Version, Genesis 9: 24,25</REF>.  Noah lived 350 more years. He then died at the age of 950.<REF>Bible, King James Version, Genesis 9: 28, 29</REF>

All people alive today must be descendants of Noah and his family:

All people alive today must be descendants of Noah and his family: