Noah and the Ark A story f corn the,BibLe retold by Jose Sicnao

When the boat was finished, Noah calledhis wife, his three sons, Shem, Ham andJapheth, and their wives. He also called allthe animals, both large and small, tame andwild. When they all arrived he shut them upin the boat, then it started to rain andblow very hard. It began in the morning andcontinued throughout the night. The raincame in gusts and the people were concernedbecauee the water kept rising and rising.Some climbed trees, and some fled to themountains, but it overtook them all. Asthey were all trying to swim, they sankunder the water as the flood cowered theplace8 &re they were.Por forty days the rain poured down,and tbe wavea rose and fell,a11 the mountain8 were submerged, theearth was all sea Md nothing could be seenof the land. When all the animals floatingin the water had died, the water began tosubside. In the neventb month the boat cameto--rest on Uount Ararat. When Roah lookedout in the tenth month, the water hadsubsided a lmg way.