Noah’s Ark is a story in The Holy Bible. It tells a story about a man named Noah. He is the only kind human. Because of the many bad things people do, like cutting down trees, polluting the river and harming animals, God made a big flood to destroy the world. Since Noah is the only human that is kind and good, God warned Noah about the flood to build a big boat. Noah put two of every species of animal on the boat.
Just as the boat was finished, God sent down the rain. The rain goes on raining for 40 days and nights and when it stopped, the world was destroyed and every living thing was killed except for the animals on the boat and Noah’s family, who were also on the boat.
220 days later, the boat finally stopped near the Ararat. 40 days later, Ararat’s peak finally poked up out of the water. Noah let a dove out to find land, but no land was found. 7 days later, Noah let the dove out again, this time, it came back with a olive branch. 7 days later, Noah let the dove out one last time and it never came back. Noah and his family and the animals finally came out of the boat. God created a rainbow to represent his promise to never cause mass destruction ever again.
This story is surprisingly similar to the Chinese myth, ” Yu curse the water,” as they both have a intertextuality of floods and the end of the world. But, as floods give people death, it also gives people good soil for farming. Both myths are about the old ending and new beginning. These myths express the collaboration before disasters, it is a kind of spiritual ballast of human that they wish too have new beginnings and happy lives. The story also connects to SDG goal number 16(life on land) number 15(life in water), God’s rainbow on the end also have connections number 17.(global friendship build through stainability goals)
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