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According to the Bible, the descendants of Adam and
Eve refused to change and continued to rebel against
God. So God told one man, Noah, to build a huge boat
and put two of every animal on it. God was going to
flood the entire earth and destroy all life except that
which was on the Ark. Just eight persons in Noah’s
family were saved from among all the people.
“Noah’s Ark” (Genesis 6-8)
Most cultures record a Flood story, myth, or legend.
The word for boat in Chinese consists of three
traditional characters: vessel, eight, and people. This
amazing fact has caused many scholars to date the
Chinese characters as early as 3000 B.C., because the
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