| They try to tell me that Noah's ark is located at | | | | took to build the ark. |
| about 17,000 foot elevation on Mt. Ararat. They also | | | | If he started building after his sons were grown and |
| try to imply it took 120 years to built the ark. | | | | married, then sailed when he was 600, it took less |
| Well, guess what I discovered. The ark came to rest | | | | than 100 years. The ancient Jewish book of Jasher |
| on the mountains (plural) of Ararat. (Gen. 8:4) All the | | | | says it took about 5 years. This may be the only |
| lower hills surrounding Mt. Ararat are called the | | | | other information concerning how long it actually took |
| "mountains" of Ararat. | | | | to build the ark. |
| The dove Noah had sent out, returned with an olive | | | | Here is an interesting side note about the longest |
| branch in its beak. Beside a dove being a very short | | | | lived person on record. Methuselah, who's name |
| distance flyer, olive trees only grow at sea level. | | | | means (when he dies, judgment; or when he is dead, |
| Noah had one or more pair of every kind of animal | | | | it will come), seems to have died the year the flood |
| on the ark. How would sheep, cows, camels and | | | | started. |
| most any other animal find their way down from a | | | | When Methuselah was 187, he begat Lamech. When |
| place we can not even access today with all our | | | | Lamech was 182 he begat Noah. (Gen. 5:22, 28) If |
| advanced equipment and technology? | | | | Methuselah was 369 years old when Noah was born, |
| There is a city in Armenia called Naxuana or | | | | and the flood came when Noah was 600, that's 969 |
| Nakhichevan, which claims Noah's tomb. The name | | | | years! (Gen. 7:6) |
| means "here Noah settled." In reference to the arks' | | | | Here is something else people usually are not aware |
| location, Berosus the Chaldean said a part of the ship | | | | of. Noah took seven pair of every beast that was |
| was still in Armenia and people were taking pieces for | | | | clean, seven pair of birds of the air and one pair of |
| amulets to avert mischief. | | | | the animals that are "not clean". (Gen. 7:2, 3) There is |
| Nicolaus of Damascus made mention: "the remains of | | | | a specific meaning here that is commonly overlooked. |
| the timber were a great while preserved". Josephus | | | | The term "not clean" has nothing to do with the |
| said, many who fled to Mt Baris at the time of the | | | | term "unclean" in the food laws dictated by the |
| Deluge were saved. (Antiquities of the Jews, book 1, | | | | Torah (Law of Moses). This was centuries before |
| 3:6) These accounts place the ark within access of | | | | Moses and before the Torah was even written. |
| people, and the Flood was regional. | | | | The term "not clean" in this passage meant |
| Here is some other information I uncovered. The | | | | "unsuitable for sacrifice". The only five acceptable |
| Bible does not say it took 120 years to build the ark. | | | | sacrifices mentioned in the Bible are sheep, goats, |
| There is a verse that says, "The Lord said His Spirit | | | | cattle, pigeons and doves. |
| shall not always strive with man...His days shall be 120 | | | | Remember, a year after the flood, every moving |
| years". (Gen. 6:3) | | | | thing that lives was acceptable for food as long as |
| Noah did not begin to have children until he was 500 | | | | the blood was drained. (Gen. 9:3, 4) It would be |
| years old. (Gen. 5:32) When Noah was told to build | | | | centuries later when the unclean food laws would be |
| the ark, his sons were already grown and married. | | | | instituted in the wilderness. |
| (Gen. 6:10, 18) The Bible does not tell us how long it | | | | |