65 Unknown Facts About Noah and His Ark


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65 Unknown Facts About Noah and His Ark

  • We don’t know his mother’s name, but Noah’s dad was Lamech.
  • Noah is the 10th generation descendant of Adam.
  • He was a farmer.
  • God told Noah not to eat “meat that has its lifeblood still in it.”
  • Noah was the first drunk. He created the first vineyard in the history of mankind; then, he drank his invention until he was naked in his tent.
  • His son, Ham, found him drunk and naked in his tent but didn’t do anything about it. All he did was call out to his brothers Sham and Japheth. When Sham & Japheth arrived, they dragged their drunken dad out of the tent, covering their eyes so as they couldn’t see their dad naked.
  • Because Ham didn’t help Noah, Noah cursed Ham to become a slave to Sham and Japheth. Noah then blessed Sham & Japheth for their actions. This also explains the fight between the Canaanites (descendants of Ham and Canaan, Ham’s son) and the Semites (descendants of Sham).
  • Noah lived to be 950 years old, 350 years after the Flood.
  • According to Josephus, the Tower of Babel was waterproofed with bitumen in reaction to the Flood to protect themselves from another flood.
  • The Ark is measured in cubits, which comes from the Latin word “cubitum,” or elbow. The length of a cubit is measured from a man’s elbow and the tip of his middle finger.
  • The Ark is 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. Since a cubit is about 1.5 feet, the Ark was about 450 ft by 75 ft by 45 ft or close to 1.5 million cubic feet. That could fit about 1,300 of the standard 20-foot shipping containers you see on cargo ships.
  • The cubit is not a standard measurement. It ranges between 15 and 22 inches, so the exact dimensions of the Ark could vary.
  • The Titanic was about three times bigger than the Ark, with a volume of 4.6 million cubic feet.
  • The ratio of the Ark, 30:5:3, was still used for shipbuilding until the 1900s.
  • It took over 100 years to build the Ark. At the time the Ark went off on its journey, Noah was 600 years old.
  • The wooden materials used to build the Ark still remains a mystery. It might have been lost in translation because different versions of the Bible state different materials. In the King James version, the Ark was said to be made from gopher wood. However, in the NIV (New International Version) version, the ark was made from cypress wood which was the wood of choice by Phoenician ship-builders.
  • Noah, his wife, his sons and his sons’s wives lived on the Ark for more than a year.
  • The world was flooded for 150 days and floodwaters only started to recede for another 100 days. Noah found out that the flood had totally receded when he sent out his dove and it came back with an olive branch.
  • The actual number of animals on the ark is another mystery. Some estimates say that there were as many as 1.2 million animals on the ark but others have said that only 16,000 animals were on the Ark.
  • God chose Noah because he could build ships. He sinned like the other humans, but he was “a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time.” This could mean that if Noah lived in a different time period, he would have been judged more harshly for his actions.
  • Methuselah, the oldest person in the Bible at 969 years old, is Noah’s grandpa.
  • We don’t know Noah’s wife’s name. She’s only mentioned as Noah’s wife in the Bible.
  • Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. He was 500 years old when he had his three sons.
  • The Ark’s wood is a mystery. The King James Version of the Bible says the Ark was made from “gopher wood,” but trees with that name do not exist today. Scholars say scribes may have copied the wrong word. Instead, in the NIV version, the Ark used “cypress wood,” which was commonly used by Phoenicians when they built ships.
  • The Ark had three stories and a roof with a small opening below it – but no steering wheel. It was made to float, and God steered the ship at will.
  • Rain and “floodgates of the heavens were opened” for forty days and forty nights. According to the Bible, the water was 15 cubits high, or about 23 feet.
  • The floodwaters stayed for 150 days, and then they receded for another 100 days. That’s when Noah sent out his dove, and it came back with an olive branch.
  • The biblical story behind the toy is pretty popular and to some extent, very well commercialized. Many of us know about what happened to Noah and his ark. Here are a few things that we need to know or maybe we just forgot.
  • People appear to have lived for more than hundreds of years before the flood. Noah’s grandpa, Methuselah, is the oldest person in the Bible at 969 years old.
  • God flooded the Earth because of human wickedness — but it wasn’t entirely the human’s fault. Angels came down from heaven and “saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.” According to ancient sources like Enoch, once the evil angels and humans mated, their offspring were giants.
  • These giants were called Nephilim, and “they were the heroes of old, men of renown.” Bonus fact: Goliath was a Nephilim.
  • We don’t know for sure if the Nephilim are the ones to blame for The Flood. Some experts believe their mentioning in Genesis before The Flood is reason enough for God to wipe the human race off the Earth.
  • There were two of each animal on the Ark – or were there? In another passage of the Bible, God told Noah to take “seven pairs of every kind of clean animal” and “one pair of every kind of unclean animal” and “seven pairs of every kind of bird.” This could mean there were 14 of each clean animal on the Ark.
  • We don’t know exactly how many animals were on the Ark. One expert says the Ark could have held at least 2.15 million sheep. But there had to be room for sleeping and eating, leading one expert to say there were only 16,000 animals were on the Ark.
  • Noah and his family (wife, sons, and sons’ wives) were stuck on the Ark for one year and ten days.
  • After coming off the Ark, God showed a rainbow as a sign of his covenant (promise) for all mankind that he would never flood the Earth like that again.
  • No one knows where the Ark is currently located. After it rested on Mount Ararat, many expeditions have tried to find it, but there has been no hard evidence yet.
  • Marco Polo was one of the discoverers who found the Ark after a three-day hike in the snow.
  • A Noah’s Ark toy is a simple and wholesome toy. It’s a toy representation of Noah and his ark. The toy usually comes with a set of animals and Mr and Mrs Noah. You children can line them up and load them into the ark. Some Noah’s Ark toys can also double as a sorter toy. So aside from using the ark as transportation for the animals, your children can also use the ark as a sorter to fit the animals in.
  • Noah built the first vineyard and drank the first wine. He is considered the world’s first drunk.
  • Interestingly, the Bible does not mention the names of Noah’s wife and mother.
  • Noah was 500 years old when he had his 3 sons; Shem, Ham and Japheth.
  • Noah was a farmer as well as ship-builder which is why he was chosen by God to build the ark.
  • The Titanic was about three times bigger than Noah’s Ark.
  • Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood and died at the age of 950 years old.
  • According to the Bible, Arphaxad was the first post-food baby. He was Noah’s grandson and the son of Shem. He was born two years after the blood.
  • There’s no conclusive evidence that the flood even took place but a story about a catastrophic flood or a similar event exists in 300 cultures.
  • It’s stated in the Bible that the ark landed in the mountains of Ararat which is located in Turkey. Unfortunately, many expeditions failed to uncover and locate the ark’s last known location.
  • Marco Polo referred to an Armenian mountain peak as the Mountain of Noah’s Ark because of its shape.
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