Make thee an ark of Gopher-wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. Behold, I, even I do bring a flood of waters upon the Earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life, from under Heaven; and every thing that is in the Earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark; thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. Of fowls, and of cattle, and of creeping things of the Earth, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee and for them. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded `him, so did he.

You see an old man sitting on a stone; that is Noah; he is five hundred years old; he is building the ark, as God commanded him. He tells the people about the flood of waters that is coming to destroy the world; they do not believe his words; but they are willing to

build the ark, because they will have payment for the work. God has sent them a long time of warning; all the time that great ark is building, all that time God is waiting, and Noah preaching; but they will not believe until the flood comes and takes them all away.

He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.-PROVERBS xxix. 1.

VI. THE FLOOD.

You see what has come to pass. God has fulfilled His holy word. Hath He said, and shall He not do it? Or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Noah went on preaching to the people, and building the ark, until all was finished, as God had commanded him. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Noah had preached, but no one had repented; there was not found one, except Noah and his family, to believe and obey the word of the Lord. Men, and women, and children, refused to obey the word of the God who made them; they refused to return from their evil ways. But the wild beasts of the field, and the cattle, and the creeping things

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