After people disobeyed God and sinned, they became wicked, and their thoughts and actions were evil. God knew He had to destroy them, but Noah walked with God. The Lord told Noah, “I will flood the earth to destroy the wicked, but I will make a covenant with you to preserve life. Build an ark with exact dimensions, and you and your family, along with pairs of animals, will be saved.”

Noah obeyed God’s instructions, and he and his three sons built the ark. When it was finished, God told Noah to enter the ark with his family. After seven days, the floodwaters began—raining from above and fountains erupted from beneath, covering the earth and destroying all living things.

The waters lifted Noah’s ark above the destruction, and it floated for 110 days until the rain stopped. Winds dried the land, and the ark eventually landed on Mount Ararat. Noah waited four months, then sent out a raven, which didn’t return, and a dove, which initially returned empty-beaked. After seven days, he sent the dove again, and it returned with an olive leaf, indicating plants were growing again. Another week later, the dove didn’t come back. A month later, Noah saw the earth was dry. God told Noah’s family to leave the ark. Noah built an altar and offered sacrifices to God, who promised never to destroy the earth again with a flood. God set the rainbow in the sky as a sign of His covenant, saying, “Whenever I see the rainbow, I will remember my promise to never again destroy the whole earth.”