God
came to
earth and looked
around. Evil and debauchery
were all He found. "Why did I make
man? I'm sorry that I did. Now mankind from
the face of the earth I must rid." But a righteous man
he found Noah to be, so it was Noah He next
went to see. He told him how evil
the world had become, how
he, Noah, was the total sum, of
righteous men on the earth. And He felt
that he was well worth, the trouble He would
go through to save just one family. He told Noah to
listen quite carefully. "I want you to build a very big boat,
one that will hold much and still float. For I shall flood the earth,
all but you shall die, the evil I have found is the reason why.
Make it four hundred and fifty feet long, no, I haven't gotten the measurements
wrong. It shall be seventy five feet wide. Within its bowels many animals shall hide.
The height of it shall be forty-five feet, the top level is where you and your family
will live and eat. To build it, you will have just fifty five years, so I suggest that
you kick it into gear." So for all those years Noah and sons built an ark, as
 the days grew increasingly dark. His neighbors jeered, "What a fool you
are! The waters much so far! You crazy old man!" And that's how the
commentary ran. Day after day, he worked on the ark, and all his
neighbors thought it quite a lark. Fifty-five to Seventy years, Noah
put up with town's peoples' jeers. He patiently told them it would be
wise to repent, before God decided His anger to vent. But just
more insults at him were hurled. No one believed Noah, no
not a one. Man's days on earth were almost done.