03-02
God was pleased with Noah
God was pleased with the way that Noah lived. Therefore, God decided to tell Noah to build a boat to protect him and his family from the flood.
a righteous man
The term righteous describes a person who obeys God and is morally good. However, because all people have sinned, no one except God is completely righteous.
03-03
the boat
The boat needed to be big enough to hold eight people, two of every kind of animal, and food for them to eat for about a year.
03-06
every kind of animal and bird
Only the animals and birds who could not live on the water came to Noah. Animals that lived in the sea did not need to come to the boat.
03-08
Everything that lived on the dry land died
The other people and animals could not enter the boat because God had shut the door before the rain started.
03-09
the boat rested on the top of a mountain
The boat was stuck on the top of the mountain that was still under the water.
03-10
it could not find any
Perhaps the dove was not able to fly far enough to find dry ground, although the tops of the mountains were visible far away.
03-11
could not find any dry land
Perhaps the dry land on the mountain tops were too far away for the dove to fly there.
an olive branch
Plants were beginning to grow in the wet ground.
03-13
Two months later
The land was already dry enough for the dove to live. But it took two more months until there was enough dry land for Noah’s family and all of the animals to be able to leave the boat.
03-14
sacrificed some of each kind of animal
People offered animals as special gifts to God as a way of worshiping him. They normally killed the animals and then burned them in a fire on an altar.
each kind of animal that could be used for a sacrifice
These were seven males and females of these animals in the boat (See: 03:06). After Noah sacrificed some of them, there were still enough left to fill the earth again.
03-16
his promise
This refers to God’s promise not to destroy the earth with a flood again (See: 03:15).