How old is noah when he built the ark

All rights reserved. Weather provided by OpenWeatherMap cc-by-sa. Email Using: Gmail Yahoo! Outlook Other. See All Blog Posts. Thank You! Your email subscription is complete. Finish your subscription You're almost done! Your newsletter signup did not work out. In , Swedish Nobel chemist Svante Arrhenius was recognized for his theory of climate change. Even concerned nations struggle to significantly change the actions of their governments and populations. Floods today cause devastating harm in many ways.

They temporarily or permanently displace people whose homes are destroyed; they cause many deaths; they wreck agricultural crops and erode huge areas of topsoil; they cripple transportation systems; and they spread disease and toxic pollutants. Devastating flood events are now arriving sooner, more frequently, and more intensely each season than predicted. We are ill-prepared. This age is even called the Anthropocene , including the human-caused sixth great extinction event on earth.

Though we will never know how long Noah took to literally build the Ark, we are in control of a much weightier question: how long will humanity take to live sustainably? Bill McKibben says that with climate change, if we win too slowly, we lose. In other words, we need to prioritize sustainability as our top priority, making changes starting NOW so the next generations can inherit a livable planet. Noah devoted his life to the same deeply hopeful goal, and so should we.

How many years did Noah take to build the Ark? Noah died years after the flood, at the age of Jewish tradition says that a hundred and twenty years before the Flood, Noah specially planted the trees from which he would take the wood for the Ark—no old-growth logging here! I say, apparently, because the Bible does not give the exact age of Noah when he received the commandment; but of when he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth, at which time he was years old.

In chapter 6 and verse 3, God makes His statement about man only having more years to respond to Him. Then down in verse 10 it brings up again the matter of Noah having Shem, Ham, and Japheth. We then know that Noah was years old when the flood started. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.