STORIES FROM THE BIBLE---3-2

                                   NOAH AND THE ARK ---2

 

   Enoch left a son whose name was Methuselah . We do not know about Methsuselah, except that he lived to be nine hundred and sixty-nine years old,

which was longer than the life of any other man who ever lived. But at last Methuselah died like all his people, except his father Enoch. By the time that Methuselah died, the world was very wicked. And God look down on the earth and said;

 

  " I will take away all men from the earth that I have made; because the men of the world are evil." But even in those bad times God saw one good man. His name was Noah. Noah  tried to do right in the sight of God. As Enoch had walked with God, so Noah walked with God, and talked with him. And Noah had three sons; their name were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth.God said to Noah, " The time has come when all men and women on the earth are to be destroyed. Every one must die. because they are all wicked. But you and your family shall be saved, because you alone are trying to do right."

 

   Then God told Noah how he might save his life and the lived of his sons. He was to built a very large boat, as large as the largest ships that are made in our time; very long and very wide and very deep; with a roof over it; but so built that it would float  on the water. Such a ship as this was called " an ark" God told Noah to build this akr. and to have it ready for the time when he would need it.

 

  "For" said God to Noah, " I am going to bring a great flood of water on the earth to cover all the land and to drown all the people on the earth. And as the animals on the earth will be drowned with the people. you must make the ark large enough to hold a pair of each kind of animals, and several pair of some animals that are needed by men, like sheep and goats and oxen; so that there will be animals as well as men to live upon the earth after the flood has passed away. And you must take in the ark food for yourself and your family, and for all the animals with you;  enough food to last for a year, while the flood shall stay on the earth."