What was the time period for the great flood in the Bible?

Answer 1

Totally unbelievable.


Noah is told to make the ark by God, so he can put two of every species on it.

Noah starts building.

God then does a spec creep by saying Noah needs to fit on seven (or fourteen, depending on how you read it) of all the clean beasts.

Noah gets seven days to get the extra animals, food etc. and get them onboard.

It rains for 40 days. (God performs multiple miracles, producing the water, stopping the energy release from that much water condensing from cooking the Earth, stopping the biggest sea going vessel ever from breaking apart)

It starts raining in the second month, 17th day of Noah's 600th year.

Everyone else drowns. Every living thing not on the ark is destroyed - including plants.

The waters stays for 150 days.

God performs other miracles, such as ventilating 450,000 cubits^3 volume though a 1 cubit^2 window. Managing to get food to, and transport all the waste products of every 'kind' of animal out though the same window.

On the 17th day of the 7th month the ark comes to rest.

Having spend 5 months on board, everyone stays there.

In the 10th month they see the tops of other mountains.

Having spend 8 months on board, everyone stays there.

Noah waits another 40 days and then opens the window (It was not opened before? Phew!) and sends out the raven and the dove. The dove comes back, the raven does not.

Having spend 9+ months on board, everyone stays there.

Noah waits annother week and sends out the dove again.

God performs a miracle and produces an olive tree (Remember ALL living things were wiped out)

The dove returns with olive branch.

Having spend 10 months on board, everyone stays there.

Noah waits another week and sends out the dove again.

In the 1st month, 1st day of Noah's 601st year, Noah takes off the covering of the ark. (everyone stops holding their breath)

Having spend almost 11 months on board, everyone stays there.

In the 2st month, 27th day of Noah's 601st year, God give clearance for everyone to get off, having spent 1 year 10 days onboard, the last 4 to 6 months while the ark rested on land.

The only just man in the world gets off the ark, sacrifices one of every clean animal (man that must have been some bloodbath), and then messes it all up by going and getting drunk - presumably after God recreated all the plants including the grape vine.

Answer 2

a number of cultures that predated the Israelites (Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians) had flood myths that have been probable borrowed by the Hebrews as they created their very own beginning myths. there is a great number of scientific data of a great number of interior sight floods for the period of that area of the international. it rather is probable that a catastrophic flood of a few form gave upward push to the mythical tale, yet there is no data of a international flood as defined in Genesis. between the main probable applicants for an staggering flood could have been after the recession of the final glaciers, whilst the Mediterranean began to upward push, and reflooded what's now the Black Sea. This occured around 8000 BCE, setting up suitable as recent important flood journey that could have been remembered for the period of the generations on the 1st gentle of civilization. It probable displaced tens, if not one hundred's of thousands of people.

Answer 3

November 2 Year 2370 B.C.E (17 of the second month)

Noah and his family entered the ark in the 600th year of Noah’s life, the 2nd month (October-November), the 17th day. (Ge 7:11) One year later (a year consisting of 360 days) was the 17th day, 2nd month, 601st year. Ten days after that would be the 27th day of the 2nd month, when they came out; a total of 370 days, or parts of 371 separate days, spent in the ark. (Ge 8:13, 14) In the log that Noah kept, it appears he used months of 30 days each, 12 of them equaling 360 days. In this way he avoided all the complicated fractions involved had he used strictly lunar months consisting of slightly more than 29 1/2 days. That such calculations were used in the account is evident from the fact that a five-month period consisted of 150 days.—Ge 7:11, 24; 8:3, 4.

Answer 4

It's said it happened in the time when the glaciers of the last Ice Age (about 11.000 years in the past) melted down.