![]() ![]() Even when the rain stopped and the earth’s crust and sea bed settled again, the floodwaters took many months to go down (17-24).Īlmost four months after the rain stopped, the ark came to rest somewhere in the Ararat Range (8:1-4). It seems that, in addition to the forty days’ constant downpour of heavy rain, there was a break in the earth’s crust that sent the waters from the sea pouring into the Mesopotamian valley (11-16). Noah took additional clean animals into the ark, possibly to use later for food and sacrifices (7:1-10 cf. These divisions helped to separate the animals and brace the whole structure (13-22). Horizontally it was divided into three decks and vertically it was divided into a number of rooms. It had a door in the side, and a light and ventilation opening, almost half a metre deep, running around the top of the wall just below the roof overhang. The ark was about 133 metres long, 22 metres wide and 13 metres high. Besides preserving Noah and his family, God preserved a pair of each kind of animals in the region, thereby helping to maintain the balance between people and animals.Īll the people and animals to be preserved were housed in a huge box-like structure called an ark, which was designed to float on the floodwaters. God’s means of destruction was a great flood. Therefore, God promised to preserve Noah, along with his family, so that when the former evil race had been destroyed, he could use Noah and his family to build a new people (9-12 cf. This appears to be what is intended in the third and fifth verses by the waters decreasing continually, or, according to the margin, they were in going and decreasing, Genesis 8:5.Īmid the corruption, there was one man, Noah, who remained faithful to God. By the second, the earth was gradually dried, the waters, as they found passage, lessening by degrees till the seas and gulfs were formed, and the earth completely drained. ![]() By the first cause, the hot wind, the waters were assuaged, and the atmosphere having its due proportion of vapours restored, the quantity below must be greatly lessened. The other portion of waters, which had proceeded from the breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, would of course subside more slowly, as openings were made for them to run off from the higher lands, and form seas. ![]() And probably this was the agent that restored to the atmosphere the quantity of water which it had contributed to this vast inundation. A friend of mine, who had been bathing in the Tigris, not far from the ancient city of Ctesiphon, and within five days' journey of Bagdad, having on a pair of Turkish drawers, one of these hot winds, called by the natives samiel, passing rapidly across the river just as he had got out of the water, so effectually dried him in a moment, that not one particle of moisture was left either on his body or in his bathing dress! With such an electrified wind as this, how soon could God dry the whole of the earth's surface! An operation something similar to the conversion of water into its two constituent airs, oxygen and hydrogen, by means of the galvanic fluid, as these airs themselves may be reconverted into water by means of the electric spark. The effects of these winds, which are frequent in the east, are truly astonishing. And God made a wind to pass over the earth - Such a wind as produced a strong and sudden evaporation. ![]()
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