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Hello! Its Rosalia again!  This time Amaya and Christina guessed the next story. 
 
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Noah and the boat and his family and the flood. 
 
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Is next week going to be about Noah's ark? 🤔

 Amaya and Christina guessed right!  This week’s lesson is about Noah and his family.  This is the story after Cain and Abel. 

Back when Noah lived, in the land he lived in, lots of people were wicked.  So many people were wicked, that Noah, his family, and his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, were the only ones that were not wicked.  God was going to put a stop to all this wickedness.  God was going to send a flood.  But since Noah was faithful, God decided to spare Noah and his family.  He told Noah to build a ark! a ark is like a REALLY big ship.  God told Noah to make it out of gopher wood. Make rooms in it.  Cover it with tar inside and out. God told him to make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.  Give it a roof, leave below the roof a window, a foot and a half high.  Put a door on one side of the ark.  Make three levels, top middle, and bottom.  Everything that is not on the ark is going to die.  On the WHOLE earth.  But God made a promise that Noah and his family will be safe on the ark.  Bring male and female of every creature on earth!  Take all the food you and the animals need, and and store it.  Noah did everything God said.  Then God said, go into the ark.  Take 7 pairs of 'clean' animals onto the ark, a male and female of each.  Take 7 pairs of each bird, Take 1 pair of each not 'clean' animal, male and female of each.  7 days from now I will send a flood that will cover the whole earth, Said God.  It will rain 40 days and 40 nights.  Again, he did everything God commanded him.  Noah was 600 years old when the flood came to the earth.  Then they all went into the ark, Noah and his family.  Everything that God said happened.  After 7 days, the flood came to the earth.  Noah was 600 years old, and it was the 17th day of the second month of the year.  That same day, the earth burst into full flood.  Just like God said, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.  Then God shut the door.  Now thats just cool!  
The waters want so high they covered the mountains.  So high, that the ark floated so high. The earth was flooded for 150 days.  But God showed concern for Noah and his family and the animals.  He caused a wind to blow across the earth, causing the waters to go down.  At the end of 150 days, the water had gone down.  On the 17th day of the of the 7th month, the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat.  The waters kept going down till the 10th month.  On the 1st day of the 10th month, the mountain tops could be seen.  40 days passed, and Noah sent out a raven.  It kept flying back and forth until the waters on the ground had dried up.  Then Noah sent out a dove.  He wanted to see if the waters on the ground had dried up, but the dove couldn't find a place to rest, so Noah knew the water still covered the surface.  He waited another week, then sent the dove out again.  Later the the dove came back, with a fresh olive leaf!  Noah knew the water had gone down.  A week later, he sent the dove out again.  This time, the dove did not return.  By the 27th day of the second month, the water on the earth had dried up totally.  God told them to come out, and they did.  Then God sent a rainbow as a promise never to flood the whole earth again. 




I think our 'take-away' from this lesson is God always keeps his word.  Can you get a different 'take-away' from this lesson?  If you can, thats great!  Also, if you can think of one, type it in on the question section.  If I pick YOUR 'take-away', then YOUR name will be in the answers page!   See you next Saturday!   Rosalia   


Read it in Genesis chapters 6, 7, and 8!