24 Bible Verses About Noah and the Flood



  • The flood began on the seventeenth day of the second month of Noah’s six hundredth year (Genesis 7:11). The rain lasted forty days, the waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days, and the earth was dry in the second month of the following year (8:13-14).
  • Genesis 6:19-20 asks for two of every kind of creature, and Genesis 7:2-3 for seven pairs of every kind of clean animal and of every kind of bird.
  • The ark came to rest on “the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4), and Genesis names no single peak.
  • God’s covenant in Genesis 9 is made with every living creature, and its sign, the rainbow, is a reminder to God: “I will see it and remember” (9:16).
  • Jesus compares the days before his coming to the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37-38), and 1 Peter 3:20-21 says the water through which eight people were saved symbolizes baptism.

God sent the flood because the earth was corrupt and full of violence, and he saved Noah, his family and the animals with them in an ark. The story runs from Genesis 6 to 9, and the flood account ends with God’s promise never again to destroy all life with a flood, with the rainbow as its sign (Genesis 9:11-13). Later books return to the story. Isaiah 54:9 compares God’s oath after the flood to a new promise to his…

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