2006-09-11 10:55:56 · 9 answers · asked by stevie m 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I believe it is a male and a female of each species, excluding sea animals I believe.
2006-09-11 11:01:11 · answer #1 · answered by cheesehead 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The easiest way our of this question is to say that Moses did not take out the Ark.Noah did. Moses only led the exodus. This has earlier been done on an identical question in Yahoo answers and ,wonder or wonders, the reply on the above lines has been held out as the best answers.The selectors do not appear to have appreciated the purpose of Yahoo answers. It is not a battle of wits where your sold aim is to point out the laccunae in the opponent's 'knowledge ' and be declared as victorious. Yahoo answers,at least it appears so to me, is an honest pursuit of knowledge.If, by any change the questioner has fumbled in framing the question it is for the answers to set it right and proceed to answer the question.
I have done so and tried to answer the question placing Noah in charge of the Ark. The answer is
How many types of animals did Noah
took ?
The relevant passages are Genesis 6:19–20 and Genesis 7:2–3.
Genesis 6:19–20:
‘And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.’
Genesis 7:2–3:
‘Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.’
In the original Hebrew, the word for ‘beast’ and ‘cattle’ in these passages is the same: behemah, and it refers to land vertebrate animals in general. The word for ‘creeping things’ is remes, which has a number of different meanings in Scripture, but here it probably refers to reptiles.2 Noah did not need to take sea creatures3 because they would not necessarily be threatened with extinction by a flood. However, turbulent water would cause massive carnage, as seen in the fossil record, and many oceanic species probably did become extinct because of the Flood.
However, if God in His wisdom had decided not to preserve some ocean creatures, this was none of Noah’s business. Noah did not need to take plants either—many could have survived as seeds, and others could have survived on floating mats of vegetation. Many insects and other invertebrates were small enough to have survived on these mats as well. The Flood wiped out all land animals which breathed through nostrils except those on the Ark (Genesis 7:22). Insects do not breathe through nostrils but through tiny tubes in their exterior skeleton
2006-09-11 11:30:56 · answer #2 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a bloke called Moses did it, what was the other fella Noah doing?
2006-09-11 11:57:25 · answer #3 · answered by Spanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Noah, not Moses, with an ark.
Trick question?
2006-09-11 11:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by Linduh. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
none! because it wasnt moses who made an arc. it was noah. thats why it was called the noahs arc ryt?
2006-09-11 11:00:31 · answer #5 · answered by froigel b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Moses didn't build the arl!!!
Sorry, that's ark.
2006-09-11 11:03:41 · answer #6 · answered by JW 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2 of each of the unclean ones and 7of each of the clean ones
2006-09-11 11:01:28 · answer #7 · answered by tnedutsmp .rM 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its seems you dont noah your bible stories
2006-09-11 22:44:32 · answer #8 · answered by I want to delete my answers account 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was Noah
2006-09-11 11:02:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋