According to church tradition, it took Noah 120 years to build the ark. Is that in the Bible? Where?

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By the way, thanks (and a thumbs up) to everyone who chose to actually answer the question instead of going off on a polemic of the validity of the Biblical account. To everyone else, you just got a thumbs down. Really, it's just a question. Get a life.

Answer 1

Gen 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gen 7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.

So about 100 years.

Answer 2

Genesis 6:3 - And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Technically, from the time that God said this, it would be 120 years before the Flood would come. In the verses that follow this one, God spoke to Noah and told him to build the boat.
Some people also translate Gen. 6:3 to mean that humans would (eventually) live to be no older than 120 years old; however, there is evidence to the contrary in that in the generations immediately following the Flood, people still lived to be 400, then 300, then 200, and today, not many people make it to 100. There have been reports of isolated tribes in the world, such as the Hunza tribe of Afghanistan, who were found to reach an average age at death of 160.

Answer 3

If god is all knowing and all powerful why did he make poor Noah,who was already 500,waste 100 years making an Ark that would have to be so big to hold the animals it would collapse under it's own weight anyway?God could have just killed all the evil people except for the incestuous Noah family off without a huge flood and wasting a century of poor old Noah's life.

Answer 4

There is no scriptural record telling how long it took to build the ark. Considering that the ship was about 450 feet long and Noah only had his own family to help him build it, it probably took quite a while but we do not know how long that was.
On a side note, Noah had other children besides Ham, Shem and Japeth. Those were just the only ones that chose to follow their father instead of the ways of the world around them.

Answer 5

Noah and the Ark is a Folk Tale. Using best evidence of facts there were 285k of animal species on the Earth at the time Noah's flood. Two of each species of animal would be 570k of animals. Using a very conservative 2 square foot of deck space per animal, the Ark would need 1140000 square feet of Deck space. Building such a Ship was not only beyond the technology of the day the finding, cutting and finishing of the 6 million board feet of raw wood would take over two hundred years using the tools of the period.

Answer 6

Genesis 6:3

Answer 7

It usually comes from Genesis 6:3, where God just before the ark is build, says that he will no long fight with man, and that he will limit them to only 120 years of life.

Answer 8

I think it took him less than 100. Here's how I figured that out.
~Noah was 500 when his first son was born (Gen 5:32)
~Noah's sons and their wives were on the ark (Gen 6:18)
~The flood began when Noah was 600 (Gen 7:6).

All this information should be on one page--page 6 in my bible.

Answer 9

Try reading Genesis 6.

Answer 10

Read Genesis.