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I've just read through it again. Very interesting. Genesis 7.10. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth 11. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened 12. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights ... 17. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift above the earth. 18. And the waters prevailed and were increased greatly on the earth..... ... .24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. ... Genesis 8.4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. So the ark was only afloat between days 40 and 150.

Yeah that was the rain. The ark was in the water for about 150 days though.

Didn't it rain 40 days and 40 nights for the great flood

noah took onto the ark: Genesis 7: 2, where God tells Noah: 'Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of the beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female' so he either took 7 males and 7 females of the clean ones, or just seven in total, depending on how you understand the sentence. the idea of two by two is only relevant to unclean animals (like pigs, camels, eels, snails etc etc). gotta love QI

...He took two of each animal, mate. I dunno WHAT you're smoking.

40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS

Though that would be an incredible place for hide and seek. Who would think to look there? And if the did, well, we've all seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.

i'm pretty sure that noah built the ark not moses!