Noah was the tenth and last of the pre-Flood patriarchs. He is best known for his pivotal role in the Great Flood or the Genesis Flood and is also portrayed as a "tiller of the soil" and a drinker of wine.
Overview[]
Noah appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. Noah is represented as the patriarch who, because of his blameless piety, was chosen by God to perpetuate the human race after his wicked contemporaries had perished in the Flood.
History[]
Genesis[]
After the ruin and death wrought by the Nephilim and the "sons of Cain", Noah was approached by the archangel Uriel, who informed Noah of the impending flood that will encompass the Earth and restart anew after the devastation that was left by the beasts. He was told to also create a great ark, and the preparation of the ark would also allow the housing for certain animals, Noah, and his family, and God's guarantee (the Noahic Covenant) for the continued existence of life under the promise that He would never send another flood.
Noah labored faithfully to build the Ark at God's command, ultimately saving not only his own family, but mankind itself and all land animals, from extinction during the Flood. Afterwards, God made a covenant with him and promised never again to destroy all the earth's creatures with a flood. Noah was led to a great after the flood waters receded by a great rainbow raven who physically appeared as God's promise to not flood the planet.
Post Flood[]
After the flood, Noah offered burnt offerings to God, who said: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done". They were also told that all fowls, land animals, and fishes would be afraid of them. Furthermore, as well as green plants, every moving thing would be their food with the exception that the blood was not to be eaten. Man's life blood would be required from the beasts and from man.
Another account of a tale that happened after the flood, the Bible says that Noah became a husbandman and he planted a vineyard. He drank wine made from this vineyard, and got drunk; and lay "uncovered" within his tent. Noah's son Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his brothers, which led to Ham's son Canaan being cursed by Noah.
Noah died 350 years after the flood, at the age of 950, the last of the extremely long-lived Antediluvian patriarchs. The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the Bible, gradually diminishes thereafter, from almost 1,000 years to the 120 years of Moses.