{"id":4469,"date":"2019-08-15T17:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T00:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&p=4469"},"modified":"2019-08-15T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T00:28:41","slug":"noah-1","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/noah-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah\u2019s Ark – How long to build"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Richard Reid<\/p>\n

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Question: How long did it take to build Noah\u2019s Ark?
\nAnswer: Less than 80 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.\u201d
\nGenesis 5:32 NIV\u00a0(https:\/\/www.bible.com\/111\/gen.5.32.niv<\/a>)<\/p>\n

God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.\u201d
\nGenesis 6:13-14 KJV\u00a0(https:\/\/www.bible.com\/1\/gen.6.13-14.kjv<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.\u201d
\nGenesis 6:18 KJV\u00a0(https:\/\/www.bible.com\/1\/gen.6.18.kjv<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the account of Shem\u2019s family line.\u00a0Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.\u201d
\nGenesis 11:10 NIV\u00a0(https:\/\/www.bible.com\/111\/gen.11.10.niv<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This means that Shem was 98 years old when the flood occurred making Noah 502 years old when Shem was born.<\/p>\n

The earliest age a male was legally allowed to be married was the age of 14, so each son would probably be at least 14-20 years old when they were married, and if they were born 2-3 years apart, this would be a total time of about 18-26 years for them all to be married. This would make Noah at least 520-528 years old when he had all his sons married off and started to build the Ark.<\/p>\n

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Also after the Ark was built, it had to be loaded with food, supplies and animals. This was said to take 7 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.<\/p>\n

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.\u201d
\nGenesis 7:1, 4 KJV\u00a0(https:\/\/www.bible.com\/1\/gen.7.1,4.kjv<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cNoah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.\u201d
\nGenesis 7:6 NIV\u00a0(https:\/\/www.bible.com\/111\/gen.7.6.niv<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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So, if Noah started building the Ark at the age of 520 and finished building it at the age of 600 minus 7 days, that means he would have taken less than 80 years [600-520] to build it. And notice that even if it took the sons longer than 20 years to be married, or if it took Noah more than 7 days to load the Ark with animals, supplies and food, it would still be less than 80 years to actually construct the Ark.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":4471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-4469","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4469\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}