Biblical Noah Flood

myth:biblical_noah_flood

Grieved by human wickedness, God sends a flood, but bids the righteous Noah build an ark and bring aboard his family and pairs of every creature. The waters prevail, the ark grounds on the mountains of Ararat, and Noah sends out a raven and then a dove, which returns with an olive leaf; a rainbow seals the promise never to flood the world again. Scholars note its close kinship with the older Mesopotamian flood accounts. — Hebrew Bible