Parashat Noah: In This Week's Parashah
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In This Week’s Parashah: מָה בַּפָּרָשָׁה​​​​​​​

Full Parashah Reading: Bereishit 6:9-11:32
  • The world becomes wicked, so God decides to destroy the world, and God commands Noah to build a תֵּיבָה (teivah, ark).
  • Noah is told to get himself and his family, two of every non-kosher animal, and fourteen of every kosher animal on the teivah.
  • It rains for 40 days and nights, creating a flood that destroys everything.
  • The flood lasts for 150 days.
  • Noah sends out a raven, then a dove to see if the water has gone away. The dove returns with an olive branch in its mouth.
  • God tells Noah to leave the teivah and repopulate the earth.
  • God promises never to destroy the world through a flood again, and makes a rainbow the sign of that promise.
  • The people of the world all speak the same language, and begin to build a מִגְדָל (migdal, tower).
  • God confuses the people with different languages, so the place is called בָּבֶל (bavel, confusion), and God scatters them over the earth.