NYLA - Noah

The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked. He also saw that their thoughts were only about evil all the time. 

The Lord was sorry he had made human beings on the earth. His heart was filled with pain. 

So the Lord said, “I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. I will also destroy the birds of the air. This is because I am sorry that I have made them.” 

People on earth did what God said was evil. Violence was everywhere. 

And God saw this evil. All people on the earth did only evil. 

So God said to Noah, “People have made the earth full of violence. So I will destroy all people from the earth. 

God told Noah how to build the ark. He was very specific on the size and materials to use. He also told them to bring food for his family.

But I will make an agreement with you. You, your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives will all go into the boat. 

Also, you must bring into the boat two of every living thing, male and female. Keep them alive with you. 

There will be two of every kind of bird, animal and crawling thing. They will come to you to be kept alive. 

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the earth every living thing that I made.”

Noah was 600 years old when the flood came. He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat. They went in to escape the waters of the flood. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female. This was just as God had commanded Noah. Seven days later the flood started.