"Make yourself an ark of cypress wood ... " [Genesis 6:14]God did not rejoice to destroy the world that he created, and wanted to give for sons of the Adam yet chances to stop from the bad doing.
The God thought: if the men will see that Noa begin to build ark, certainly will be suprised and will begin to ask him for his doing.
Then Noa will talk to them on the approaching disaster, and will say to them that they will be yet able to return from their bad way, and to be saved from the flood.The God said to Noa: "Make yourself ark, and when the flood will come on the earth, you will enter to inside it and so you will save your soul and sons of your house, because I saw your sign is godfearing on the earth."
"From what I will build ark?" Noa was suprised.
God said: "In order to build ark, you will begin with yourself to plant trees of cedar.
After the cedars will grow, you will cut tree trunks and from the tree trunks you will build the ark."Noa planted cedars.
The men passed near Noa who is planting and they asked: "Noa, why you plant cedars?
Trees are lacking in the world?"
Noa answered to them: "God is angry on your doing and want to bring flood on the earth.
I plant cedars, in order to build ark from the cedars and to save me and sons of my house from the flood."
"Flood?" the bad men laughed, and one of them pulled out seeding that Noa planted.
Noa begged: " Return from your bad doing, and then there will be not flood on the earth that will destroy the world."
The men laughed and jeered at his words of Noa.Years passed, and the cedars grew.
Noa began to cut the cedars, but he did not fast in his work, and he engaged in cutting the cedars many years.
He thought that if the ark will be not ready, God will not fast to bring the flood and to destroy the world.
He still thought that if the work will be drawn much time, the maen will pass near me and they ask why I cut the cedars that I planted.
I will talk to them on the approaching flood and come, and perhaps still they will return from your bad doing?The men passed near Noa, and they saw that he cut the trees that he planted before some years.
The men jeered at him: "Noa, Noa, what are you doing?
For whom you cut the cedars?
After you worked all so hard to plant and to grow them, now you cut them?
Noa said to them: "God want to bring flood on the earth.
I cut the cedars in order to build ark from them.
When the flood fall, I will enter to the ark together with sons of my family, and so we will save our life.
Please, return in all from your bad way, and then there will be not flood on the earth.
So you will save your life and you will save also the world."
The men laughed to Noa, and one of them even stole one of tree trunks from Noa and took to his house.Noa began to build the ark from tree trunks of the cedars, but he did not fast in his work.
He yet wanted to speak with sons of the Adam, and hoped -- Pehaps this time they will hear to his words?
The men passed near Noa, and they looked in his work.
They were suprised, "What are you doing? Which kind of odd house you build?"
Noa said to them: "I build ark.
When the flood fall on the earth, I will enter to the ark and so I will save my soul and soul of sons of my family.
Noa continued, "If you will return from yourbad way, there will be not flood on the earth, and so you will save your life and you will save also the world."
The men laughed big laugh, and one of them even kicked in tools of the work of Noa, and he scattered on the ground.The God saw that Noa not at all succeeded to convince the men to return in them from their bad way, and decided to bring flood on the earth.
Suddenly, in middle of day of fine summer, heavy clouds began to cover face of the sky.
The men looked in their eyes, and said:"odd... clouds in middle of the summer?
Noa looked in sky, and his heart was broken.
The flood arrived, he thought.
Little drops beganto drop on the earth.
Sons of the Adam saw drops of the water, and said: "Fine, the rain will clean all the dust!"
Noa saw drops of the water, and he entered all of sons of his family to the ark.Strong rain began to fall.
The men were afraid and fasted to hide in their house before the rain.
The flood began to fall on the earth, and falled many days, did not at all stop and covered the all.
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