The Great Flood

OUTSIDE the ark, the people went about their life the same before. They still did not believe that the flood would come. They must have laughed more than ever.  But they soon stopped laughing.

All of a sudden water began to fall.  It poured down from the sky as when you pour water from a bucket. Noah had been right!  But it was too late now for anyone else to get into the ark. The door had been closed tight by Jehovah.

Soon all the low ground was covered. The water became like big rivers. It pushed over trees and rolled around big stones, and made a lot of noise.  The people were afraid. They climbed up to a higher ground. Oh, how they wished they had listened to Noah and gotten into the ark when the door was still open for them!   But now it was too late.

The water kept getting higher and higher.  For 40 days and 40 nights the water poured out of the sky. It rose up the sides of the mountains, and soon even the tallest  mountains were covered. So just as God had said, all the people and animals outside the ark died.  But everyone inside was safe.

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