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• Noah's Flood

  [Bible]

  Noah's Flood is an event recorded in Genesis 6–9. It tells how God judged a world filled with wickedness by means of a flood while preserving Noah's family and the animals in the ark, and how after the flood He made a covenant with the rainbow as its sign.

• Noah's Ark

  [Bible]

  Noah's Ark is the large vessel that Noah built at God's command in Genesis 6–9, in which Noah's family of eight and the animals survived the judgment of the Flood.

• Noahic Covenant

  [Bible]

  The Noahic covenant is the covenant God made after the Flood with Noah, his descendants, and every living creature. In it God promised never again to destroy the earth by a flood and appointed the rainbow as its sign (Genesis 9). It is also called the "rainbow covenant."

• Canaan (Son of Ham)

  [People]

  Canaan was the fourth son of Ham, the son of Noah, and the one cursed by Noah in Genesis 9. His name later came to designate the land his descendants inhabited and the peoples descended from him.

• Daughters of Zelophehad

  [People]

  The daughters of Zelophehad were the five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. Their request for the inheritance (share of land) of their father, who had died without sons, led to the establishment of an ordinance governing inheritance by daughters.

• Lamech

  [People]

  Lamech is an antediluvian figure in Genesis who, in the line of Seth, was the son of Methuselah and the father of Noah. Genesis 4 also mentions another Lamech, a descendant of Cain.

• 1 Peter 3:21

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse that compares the waters of Noah's flood to baptism, calling baptism "the like figure" that "doth also now save us." Because denominations understand the role of baptism in salvation differently, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of the doctrine of baptism.

• Gopher Wood

  [Bible]

  Gopher wood is the timber God instructed Noah to use in building the ark in Genesis 6:14. Because the word appears only once in the Bible, the kind of tree it refers to is uncertain.

• Magog

  [People]

  Magog was a grandson of Noah and a son of Japheth, named in the genealogies of Genesis and 1 Chronicles. In Ezekiel and Revelation, his name is used for a northern land and for forces opposed to God.

• Genesis 7

  [Bible]

  Genesis 7 is the chapter in which Noah, his family, and the animals enter the ark and the flood begins. Every living thing on the earth is swept away, and only those in the ark remain.

• Tiras

  [People]

  Tiras was a grandson of Noah and a son of Japheth. His name appears only in the genealogies of Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles 1, and nothing is recorded about his life.

• Mount Ararat

  [Bible]

  Mount Ararat is the name of the mountainous region where Noah's ark came to rest after the Flood, as recorded in Genesis 8:4. The biblical "Ararat" originally referred to an ancient region in what is today eastern Turkey and Armenia.

• Genesis 5:1–3

  [Bible Verses]

  Genesis 5:1–3 introduces the genealogy that runs from Adam to Noah. It recalls the creation account in which humanity was made in the image of God and records that Adam begat Seth "in his own likeness, after his image." For this reason the passage is often cited in discussions of the image of God after the Fall and of original sin.

• Genesis 9:1–7

  [Bible Verses]

  After the Flood, God renews to Noah and his sons the blessing to be fruitful and multiply, permits the eating of meat while forbidding the eating of flesh with its blood, and prohibits murder. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of the sanctity of life grounded in the image of God, capital punishment, and the refusal of blood transfusions.

• Genesis 9

  [Bible]

  Genesis 9 is the chapter in which, after the Flood, God blesses Noah and his sons and establishes a covenant with the rainbow as its sign. It also recounts Noah's drunkenness, the curse on Canaan, and Noah's death.

• Rainbow (Bible)

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, the rainbow is the sign of the covenant God made after Noah's Flood, promising never again to destroy the earth by a flood. The books of Ezekiel and Revelation also use it to describe God's glory and throne.

• 2 Peter 2:4–5

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage that cites the angels who sinned and the flood of Noah as examples showing that judgment will surely come upon false teachers. It is frequently discussed in connection with the fall of the angels, the Greek term Tartarus (rendered "hell"), and the description of Noah as a preacher of righteousness.

• Madai

  [People]

  Madai, the third son of Noah's son Japheth, appears in the genealogies of Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles 1. He is traditionally regarded as the ancestor of the Medes, a people of the ancient Iranian region.

• Genesis 8

  [Bible]

  Genesis 8 recounts how the floodwaters recede, Noah sends out a raven and a dove, and he then leaves the ark with his family and the living creatures and offers burnt offerings. The LORD promises that while the earth remains, the seasons and day and night shall not cease.

• Ararat

  [Bible]

  Ararat is an Old Testament place name that refers both to the mountainous region where Noah's ark came to rest (Genesis 8:4) and to a nation of the ancient Near East. It is generally identified with the highland region of present-day eastern Turkey and Armenia.