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The history of Noah
Noah and his family—
George Guthrie • Reading God's Story: A Chronological Daily Bible
The biblical story of the deluge (written more than 1,000 years after the Mesopotamian version) also reports that immediately upon leaving the ark, ‘Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I
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l’épisode du Déluge (Genèse, 6-8) qui reprend dans les moindres détails le chant XI de l’épopée de Gilgamesh
Frédéric Lenoir • Petit traité d'histoire des religions (Hors collection) (French Edition)
“O Noah! Come down (from the Ark) with peace from Us, and blessing on you and on some of the peoples (who will spring) from those with you: but (there will be other) peoples to whom We shall grant their pleasures (for a time), but in the end will a grievous Penalty reach them from Us.”
Abdullah Ali • The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an: Complete Translation with Selected Notes
While some biblical literalists were concerned that the Bible didn’t mention extinctions, and recorded instead that Noah had managed to rescue a pair of every kind, Buckland had a more pragmatic explanation. Accommodating both the fossil record of clearly extinct animals and the biblical story, he reasoned that, with limited space and fodder on boa
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