The Bible In Paintings: NOAH BUILDS AN ARK

[Hebrews 11:6]

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G E N E S I S
CHAPTER 6, VERSES 5-22

The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that EVERY inclination of the thoughts of his heart was ONLY EVIL ALL THE TIME. The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out….Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. I am going to bring flood-waters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

H E B R E W S
CHAPTER 11, VERSE 7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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JAMES TISSOT
"Building the Ark"

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"The Building of Noah's Ark"

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JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"The Prophecy of the Flood"

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JACOPO BASSANO
"The Construction of Noah's Ark"

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KASPAR MEMBERGER
"Construction of Noah's Ark "

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TRICIA LOWENFIELD
"N is for Noah"

G E N E S I S
CHAPTER 7, VERSES 1-5

The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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FRANS FRANCKEN the Younger
"Noah Enters the Ark"

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GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE
"Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark"

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JACQUEMART DE HESDIN
"L’Entrée dans l’Arche de Noé "

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JAN GRIFFIER I
"Noah's Ark"

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JAMES TISSOT
"The Animals Enter the Ark"

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DOSSO DOSSI
"Entry into the Ark"

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JACOPO BASSANO
"The Animals Entering Noah' Ark"

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GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE
"The Animals Entering Noah's Ark"

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GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE
"Entry of the Animals into the Ark"

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FRANCESCO BASSANO the Younger
"Entry of the Animals in the Ark"

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LEANDRO BASSANO
"Animals Entering Noah's Ark"

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[Phinneous]

If they lost you at “...darkness for 40 days” I was proposing an answer

[Hebrews 11:6]

It can rain without pitch-blackness, which is my understanding of the proposal.

[M Kehoe]

“Lord, what’s a cubit?” - Noah

5.56mm

[Hebrews 11:6]

see post #36

[M Kehoe]

8^)

5.56mm

[SisterK]

LOL
that looks fun

But 3 rabbits?

[Red Badger]

They ‘multiply’..................

[null and void]

The Bible says Genesis 6:15-16 This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

Length, breadth and height. That's a box.

No mention of a bow, a keel, or a rudder. It's not meant to navigate, but to passively float.

You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top

A window, navigating while only able to see in one direction, and that window is shuttered until the time to release the ravens and the dove. No bow, no stern no keel, it's designed to passively float.

It's a box.

Not just any box, but one whose ratios, 30:5:3, perform particularly well in a wave tank!

Extra Biblical, but I remember hearing that his neighbors ridiculed him for building such a large barn. A boat is built differently than a building. The would have notice curved beams for rib, and keel and ridiculed him for building a boat so very far from water.

[Thank You Rush]

Where did you find room enough for 1000 pcs.? Good for you.
Love jigsaw puzzles...

[Hebrews 11:6]

God was in complete charge of the ark during the flood. Noah trusted and submitted totally to Him--just as I did once-and-for-all on 10/14/77. I'm in Year 45, of ∞.

[Ezekiel]

The narrow (closed) view is the broad way.
The broad (open) view is the narrow way [that few will find]:

The Midrash on Song of Songs (5:2) says: “Open up for me an opening like the eye of a needle and in turn I will enlarge it to be an opening through which wagons can enter.”

Let Me In

"And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: And Israel said...

Reverend Mother knew:

When the Lord closes a door. . .
. . .somewhere He opens a window:

"This they shall give"

Beit El, because

The Way is Love:

Unreleased Roy Orbison track resurrected by singer's sons

Noah's Ark of rescue:

It's like Joseph in Egypt -- the unicorn isn't really dead, the Irish Rovers were just playing along with the established wisdom.

If people had read their history, they'd know that leprechauns were the little... cobblers known for their practical jokes. ;)

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Building the Ark had to be quite a project. He didn’t have the pretty smooth planks shown in some of the paintings, nor did he have steel tools, nor did he have help (not mentioned in the Bible, anyway). He had to cut the trees down and into boards with at best a bronze saw. No wonder it took 150 years.

[Hebrews 11:6]

A question that intrigues me is whether and to what extent Noah employed people outside his family.

[Red Badger]

Where did you find room enough for 1000 pcs.?

The dining room table!...........FYI, the puzzle came from Kohl's if you want to buy one, they have different Biblical scenes..............

[Thank You Rush]

Thank you......

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I think people outside of his family probably made fun of him unmercifully. “Hey! Boat Boy! Oooohh - I think I felt a drop - better hurry it up!”

[dfwgator]

“Am I on Candid Camera?”

[Hebrews 11:6]

We know who had the last laugh....