78:7.5 But [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah] really lived; he was a wine maker of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_%28Biblical_region%29 Aram], a river settlement near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erech Erech]. He kept a [[written]] [[record]] of the days of the [[river]]'s rise from year to year. He brought much ridicule upon himself by going up and down the river valley advocating that all houses be built of wood, boat fashion, and that the [[family]] [[animals]] be put on board each night as the flood season approached. He would go to the [[neighboring]] [[river]] settlements every year and warn them that in so many days the floods would come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire village; only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah] and his immediate [[family]] were saved in their houseboat. | 78:7.5 But [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah] really lived; he was a wine maker of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_%28Biblical_region%29 Aram], a river settlement near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erech Erech]. He kept a [[written]] [[record]] of the days of the [[river]]'s rise from year to year. He brought much ridicule upon himself by going up and down the river valley advocating that all houses be built of wood, boat fashion, and that the [[family]] [[animals]] be put on board each night as the flood season approached. He would go to the [[neighboring]] [[river]] settlements every year and warn them that in so many days the floods would come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire village; only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah] and his immediate [[family]] were saved in their houseboat. |