How many types of species did Moses take into the Ark?

Answer 1

None

Answer 2

Moses didn't take ANY animals into the ark. That was way before he was born.

The Bible doesn't say how many species Noah took on the ark. Just "two of every kind." I assume that doesn't mean he had two of every kind of dog - but maybe two wolves. Same for other related species.

Answer 3

I assume this is meant to be a trick question with the answer. "None. It was NOAH, not Moses who was in the ark."

BUT, in fact, that's not entirely true. And the correct answer to your question is --"ONE that we know of", viz. a human being (himself!).

In Exodus 2 (vv.3, 5) we read that the infant Moses was put into an "ARK [made] of bulrushes" in order to hide him and keep him from being drowned in the Nile (according to the Pharaoh's decree against the infant sons of the Hebrews).

The Hebrew word translated "ark" here (in the King James Version, "basket" in most others) is EXACTLY the same word as is used for Noah's "ark" in Genesis. (The English word "ark" means "box", and is used elsewhere to translate a different Hebrew word in the expression "ark of the covenant".)

So we know that Moses himself was in that ark, which gives us one species. The only question is whether perhaps any stray insects might have gotten in there with him.

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But isn't this just triva?

Not really. The use of the same word as with Noah's ark is quite deliberate, intended to draw a connection between the two stories (and these are the ONLY two places in the Bible which use this word). The way Moses is rescued from drowning in the Nile echoes how God had rescued Noah.

And the episode with Moses is not just about him. The story of his deliverance is told in such a way as to "foreshadow" what God will do for the whole nation of Israel later in the story, under Moses' leadership.. that is, God's rescue of the people at/through the Red Sea (where they come through safe, but the EGYPTIANS are drowned), which stands as the central story of the "Exodus" --and THE great "salvation" story for Israel. (This imagery of God's great "victory over the SEA" and delivering his people from [drowning in] the depths is, in fact, a central story THROUGHOUT Scripture... being picked up to describe God's deliverance of his anointed king, David [esp. Psalm 18], echoed in the semi-parabolic story of Jonah, and used in the New Testament to speak of Jesus' resurrection, and of the 'final victory' of God [esp in Revelation 13-15].)

This imagery is also developed in the story of the plagues on Egypt, since the very first of these plagues is the turning of the WATERS of the Nile (etc) into BLOOD (a judgment whose form symbolically echoes the killing of the Hebrew babies in the Nile).

Answer 4

The only thing Moses took was a couple of rock tablets with the ten commandments, and that was down a mountain. But either you are trying to trick us into the answer or you have just gotten your hands on a DENSA test.

Answer 5

It was Noah who built the ark. He took all species, both male and female.

Answer 6

Moses took Bush, Sadam, and that Kim guy from North Korea and left them stranded with a solitary lifesaver on a melting ice block in Antartica.

Answer 7

You probably mean Noah!
Well the story about Noah is part of a Hebrew myth, and as a myth it is not true!
(Of course it is impossible for anyone to take millions of species into an arc!)

Answer 8

None . Moses didn't have an ark . That was Noah .

Answer 9

Zero. Noah's the ark guy.

Answer 10

wasn't it Noah who had the ark?

Answer 11

there is no such thing moron, there has been written record since 3000BC and I don't think they wouldn't missed the whole earth flooding