God was like, "Noah, squad up and get in the ark. You're the real MVP of this generation. Grab the clean animals by the sevens, both dudes and chicks. The not-so-clean ones, just a pair will do. Birds too, gotta have them in sevens to keep their vibes alive all over the planet. Heads up, in seven days it's gonna pour like never before, for 40 days and nights, wiping everything I made off the map."
And Noah? He followed the playlist exactly as God dropped it.
Noah was hitting 600 years old when the floodwaters rolled in. Noah and his fam, they all dipped into the ark to dodge the flood. Every animal, clean or not, plus birds and creepy crawlies. They paired up and strutted into the ark to Noah, just like God directed. After a week, it was showtime, and the flood took center stage.
When Noah was 600, on the dot, everything went wild—the ocean's basement cracked open, and the sky windows flipped wide. It rained non-stop, day and night, for a full 40.
That very day, Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, their mom, and their wives all boarded the ark, along with every species of animal, cattle, bugs, and birds. They all rolled in, two by two, breathing life into the ark. Male and female of all living things checked in as God booked it, and then God locked the door.
For 40 days, the flood was the boss, lifting the ark and giving it a cruise above the chaos. As the waters got bossier, the ark surfed the waves. The waters were so extra, even the tallest hills got dunked. We're talking 15 cubits deep, burying mountains under the H2O. Everything that moved or breathed on dry land was a goner—birds, livestock, wild animals, crawlers, and humans. If it had breath in its lungs and lived on land, it was lights out. Every living thing got deleted outside the ark—people, animals, insects, and birds. Only Noah and the ark crew survived.
And those waters? They had the earth on lockdown for 150 days.
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