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→The Genesis account
The flood waters apparently continued to rise for 150 days, but it was just over a year before the waters had receded enough for the occupants of the ark to leave.
The flood waters apparently continued to rise for 150 days, but it was just over a year before the waters had receded enough for the occupants of the ark to leave.
The ark is recorded as having come to rest on the mountains of Ararat, taken by many today to be the existing mountains of that name.
The ark is recorded as having come to rest on the mountains of [[Ararat]], taken by many today to be the existing mountains of that name.
God put a rainbow in the clouds, and said that it was to be a reminder that he would never again destroy the world in a flood. (Genesis does not say that this was the first ever rainbow.)
God put a [[rainbow]] in the clouds, and said that it was to be a reminder that he would never again destroy the world in a flood. (Genesis does not say that this was the first ever rainbow.)
He also told Noah that it was now okay to eat meat.
He also told Noah that it was now okay to eat meat.
==The Gilgamesh Epic account==
==The Gilgamesh Epic account==