Because of a flood, an ark was built. In the book of Genesis, we are told that God saw the earth and its people had become corrupt, so He decided to destroy them by a flood. But one man, Noah, found favor in God’s eyes and was directed to build an ark in which he and his family would be saved. He was to take some of the animals in that ark to preserve them, too, taking enough food for both people and animals to last through a long confinement in that boat. It was going to rain for forty ...