Day 85: The Story of Noah and the Great Flood

Welcome to Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. On Day 85, the script recounts the story of Noah, a righteous man chosen by God during a time of great corruption and violence on Earth. God commands Noah to build an ark to save himself, his family, and pairs of each animal species from a devastating flood meant to cleanse the world. The narrative follows the detailed construction of the ark, the gathering of animals, the onset of the flood, and the survival of Noah's family and the preserved creatures. After the floodwaters recede, Noah and the animals repopulate the Earth, and God establishes a covenant with Noah, symbolized by a rainbow, promising never to destroy all life with a flood again. The episode continues to trace the genealogy of Noah's sons and their descendants and concludes with the account of the Tower of Babel, where God confuses human language, leading to the scattering of people across the world. This detailed narration offers an essential look at these foundational events in biblical history.

00:00 Introduction and Noah's Righteousness
00:22 God's Plan for the Flood
00:40 Building the Ark
02:26 The Great Flood Begins
05:09 The Flood Recedes
06:59 Noah's Covenant with God
10:17 Noah's Descendants and Nations
15:35 The Tower of Babel
16:42 Genealogy from Shem to Abram
18:26 Conclusion

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4 Questions to get your conversations started:
1. What stood out to you this week?
2. Was there anything confusing or troubling?
3. Did anything make you think differently about God?
4. How might this change the way we live?

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3 ways to get the most out of your experience

1. Use Immerse: Beginnings instead of your regular chapter and verse Bible. This special reader’s edition restores the Bible to its natural simplicity and beauty by removing chapter and verse numbers and other historical additions. Letters look like letters, songs look like songs, and the original literary structures are visible in each book.
2. Commit to making this a community experience. Immerse is designed for groups to encounter large portions of the Bible together
   for 8 weeks–more like a book club, less like a Bible study. By meeting every week in small groups and discussing what you read in open,
   honest conversations, you and your community can come together to be transformed through an authentic experience with the Scriptures.
3. Aim to understand the big story. Read through “The Stories and the Story” (p. 483) to see how the books of the Bible work together to tell God’s story of his creation’s restoration. As you read through Immerse: Beginnings, rather than ask, “How do I fit God into my busy life?” begin asking, “How can I join in God’s great plan by living out my part in his story?”