Noah had done as God commanded. He had built his ark, and taken upon it his wife and his sons and their wives, and a breeding pair of every kind of animal. He had endured the mockery of those around him.
And then God sent the doom He had promised: the rains came, and came, and came, and the waters rose until all the land was covered by them. And by the time they were done, Noah’s family and their animals would be the only survivors.
