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Bibliography: The Story of Noah from the King James Bible
When Noah was born he resembled the children of angels in heaven according to his father Lamech. His mother cried and Enoch came and told her that her son will survive the great punishment of the earth that will come. The curse brought by the sins of Adam ceased with the appearance of Noah. As Noah grew up Uriel was sent to him so he would know how to save his own life. Raphael was told to put a fallen angel in chains, the fallen angels wanted to occupy earth after all the humans were erased from it. The angels came to earth and could not contain themselves from sin. The angels had sons that were having visions. Shemhazi suspended himself for penance between heaven and earth as god pardons the sins of Israel. The offspring of the angels were the giants and they were known for strength and sin-fullness. The descendants of Cain were sinful and depraved, they new neither toil nor care.
God said to them that the men could not live longer than 120 years, and he saw that man made evil existed on the earth. He wanted to eliminate all of the creatures that he had created because he did not like what he saw. God saw Noah, as the perfect example of what he expected from his humans. He wanted them to not be corrupted as he saw the others were. God told Noah he would destroy the earth in its corrupt nature full of violence. He told Noah he wanted to flood to destroy the flesh that lived there, but he will save Noah's family if they build an ark to float. He tasked Noah with gathering two of every animal to keep them alive, and so Noah did. The sinful people watched Noah build his ark and they taunted him.
Noah was 600 years old when he built this ark, the rain happened for 40 days and 40 nights non-stop flooding the earth. Everything of flesh on earth that was not in the ark died on earth, but Noah and his family did not. After this, god sent a wind over the earth to clear the water and after 150 days the ark finally rested on the top of the mountains of Ararat. He used a dove to see if the dove would land anywhere, but the dove returned without a place to stand. He did this again after 7 days and the dove came back with an olive leaf, there was life on earth. After another 7 days he sent the dove again, but she did not return.
Noah left the ark at God's command and took all the animals from the ark and sacrificed the clean beast and fowl, and burnt offerings on the alter. God claimed he would not curse the ground anymore after this. The sons of Noah went forward and spread over the earth. Noah planted a vineyard and drank wine, after he was naked and drunk in his tent his sons went to cover him so they did not see. The younger son had seen but not done anything, Noah cursed Canaan to be a servant among servants to his brethren, and blessed the other sons since they helped him.
The family of Noah multiplied and spread over the world, the whole earth spoke one language and they decided to build a city and tower. They wanted to reach heaven and so God came down and wanted to restrain them. The lord scattered them across the world and the city was named Babel because the language of all the earth was confounded there.
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