Why did God tell Noah to take two of every animal ?

Question

He could have made the Ark half sized if he just did that rib thing again.

Answer 1

Because three was to much
and one wasn't enough..

Answer 2

I've never been able to figure out why if sky-dude was able to create every species of animal and plant *poof* in like two days back in the earlier bit of the book, why does he need Noah and his clan to take them all on a boat for 40+ days?

Even if he wanted some continuity with the humans, for some reason, couldn't he have just poofed a bunch more animals into existence at the end? Apparently he did it for the plants - unless for some reason all those crop species were able to survive underwater for 40 days. Why didn't Noah have to take wheat and barley and grapes and olives and watermelons and oak trees on the Ark?

Man, the more you look at that story, the more holes there are in the plot. It's worse than a Michael Bay film.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

A pair of unclean and seven pair of clean. The extra clean pairs were food for Noah and the crew. Gen.20 - 21 thus proving Noah knew clean from unclean long before Exodus and Leviticus.
Thumbs down is a cop out. Read the book.

Alfred the ATHEIST.
AEN

Answer 5

Because god wanted noah to have a male and female animals to reproduce since he wiped out the earth in a giant flood, and took with it every animal and species on earth along with every woman and child and man known...

Answer 6

The "rib thing" would only work for animals with ribs. What about the slugs and protozoa and stuff Noah collected?

Answer 7

You aren't reading the bible carefully. There are 2 version of the Noah story. In one version he takes one pair of each animal. In another he takes one pair of each "unclean" animal and 7 pairs of each "clean" animal. The two contradictory versions are mixed together.

By the time of Noah, God had apparently given up on the whole creation thing...he just gave instructions and Noah carried them out. He did not give Noah any miraculous god-like powers.

If you take your suggestion to its logical conclusion, God should not have bothered to save any of the living things. He should have just redone the animals part of creation.

Answer 8

God didn't tell Noah to take two of every animal.

You really need to read the Bible yourself for once instead of depending on others to tell you what's there.

Pastor Art

Answer 9

He did not; it was two of every unclean animal; not the clean ones; They were 7 pairs.

Answer 10

All boys love to play with boats, and there is nothing better than filling one to capacity to see what happens.

Answer 11

lol actually he told noah to take 7 pairs of the clean animals.