Genesis 8:21-22 New International Version (NIV) 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I...

Genesis 7:17-24 New International Version (NIV) 17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the...

Genesis 7:16 New International Version (NIV) 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in. Have you ever wondered how this roundup of the animal kingdom every happened? Did Noah and his sons...

Genesis 6:15 New International Version (NIV) 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. The boat that Noah built was no small feat. The boat was one and a half football fields in length. It...

Genesis 6:9 New International Version (NIV) Noah and the Flood 9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. When it says that Noah was righteous and blameless, this...

Genesis 6:3 New International Version (NIV) 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” This is interpreted to mean that the people of Noah's day had 120 years to change...