Noah and the Ark

They try to tell me that Noah's ark is placed at about 17,000 foot elevation on Mt. Ararat. They also try to imply it took 120 years to built the ark.

Well, guess what I discovered. The ark came to rest on the mountains (plural) of Ararat. (Gen. 8:4) All the lower hills surrounding Mt. Ararat are called the "mountains" of Ararat.

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The dove Noah had sent out, returned with an olive subject in its beak. Beside a dove being a very short distance flyer, olive trees only grow at sea level.

Noah had one or more pair of every kind of animal on the ark. How would sheep, cows, camels and most any other animal find their way down from a place we can not even entrance today with all our advanced equipment and technology?

There is a city in Armenia called Naxuana or Nakhichevan, which claims Noah's tomb. The name means "here Noah settled." In reference to the arks' location, Berosus the Chaldean said a part of the ship was still in Armenia and citizen were taking pieces for amulets to avert mischief.

Nicolaus of Damascus made mention: "the remains of the timber were a great while preserved". Josephus said, many who fled to Mt Baris at the time of the Deluge were saved. (Antiquities of the Jews, book 1, 3:6) These accounts place the ark within entrance of people, and the Flood was regional.

Here is some other information I uncovered. The Bible does not say it took 120 years to build the ark. There is a verse that says, "The Lord said His Spirit shall not always strive with man...His days shall be 120 years". (Gen. 6:3)

Noah did not begin to have children until he was 500 years old. (Gen. 5:32) When Noah was told to build the ark, his sons were already grown and married. (Gen. 6:10, 18) The Bible does not tell us how long it took to build the ark.

If he started construction after his sons were grown and married, then sailed when he was 600, it took less than 100 years. The antique Jewish book of Jasher says it took about 5 years. This may be the only other information regarding how long it unmistakably took to build the ark.

Here is an involving side note about the longest lived someone on record. Methuselah, who's name means (when he dies, judgment; or when he is dead, it will come), seems to have died the year the flood started.
When Methuselah was 187, he begat Lamech. When Lamech was 182 he begat Noah. (Gen. 5:22, 28) If Methuselah was 369 years old when Noah was born, and the flood came when Noah was 600, that's 969 years! (Gen. 7:6)

Here is something else citizen normally are not aware of. Noah took seven pair of every beast that was clean, seven pair of birds of the air and one pair of the animals that are "not clean". (Gen. 7:2, 3) There is a exact meaning here that is ordinarily overlooked.

The term "not clean" has nothing to do with the term "unclean" in the food laws dictated by the Torah (Law of Moses). This was centuries before Moses and before the Torah was even written.

The term "not clean" in this tube meant "unsuitable for sacrifice". The only five standard sacrifices mentioned in the Bible are sheep, goats, cattle, pigeons and doves.

Remember, a year after the flood, every involving thing that lives was standard for food as long as the blood was drained. (Gen. 9:3, 4) It would be centuries later when the unclean food laws would be instituted in the wilderness.

Noah and the Ark

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