Tonight I was reading to my older kids a book by Jerry Pinkney entitled “Noah’s Ark”. This is a book filled with the biblical story of Noah and beautiful illustrations. As we were reading I found myself asking some odd questions. They were told to take food and water into the ark for themselves and all the animals. They were in the ark for a year. How much did they have to store up? Did God just make it last, like he turned water to wine or fed 5000? What about Noah’s daughters-in-laws’ families? Evidently God deemed them “evil,” but did Noah’s family grieve their loss? Did God tell Noah to bring seeds? Otherwise, how would Noah have begun to be able to feed his family after the flood? What did they DO for over a year with all those animals? Yes, feeding and cleaning pens alone would take a chunk of the day, but after that…? Gin rummy?
2 “I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. (Gen. 12 NIV)