Noah stories

[Voadam]

Can anybody give me the citations to the old testament references to the Noah stories? I understand one refers to bringing in pairs of animals and one has it as seven of each kind.

Thanks.

To make it on topic, I've gotten Green Ronin's Testament setting but haven't fully read through it yet. Anybody started up a Testament game or incorporated elements of it into theirs?

 

[EricNoah]

Can anybody give me the citations to the old testament references to the Noah stories? I understand one refers to bringing in pairs of animals and one has it as seven of each kind.

Thanks.

To make it on topic, I've gotten Green Ronin's Testament setting but haven't fully read through it yet. Anybody started up a Testament game or incorporated elements of it into theirs?

Genesis, chapters 5 through 9, according to this bible full-text search site: http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible

From Genesis ch 6-7:

9 This is the account of Noah.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress [3] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. [4] 16 Make a roof for it and finish [5] the ark to within 18 inches [6] of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark-you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Genesis 7
1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven [1] of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."
5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

The footnote in Gen 7:2 says "Or seven pairs".

The above is NIV. Gen 7:2 in KJV reads: "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female."

 

[WayneLigon]

I bought it but I haven't really looked through it very well yet; I know I'll be using at least some elements from it though probably not the setting.

 

[Voadam]

Ask for a Noah expert and you will recieve.

So Gen 6:19-20 for pair and Gen 7:2 for seven pair.

Thanks mucho.

Wayne,

I bought it for the creatures, the magic and a good read, I don't expect to run or play in the setting either, but you never know. I never expected my dragonlance magic user to end up in a 1980s New York office building but these things happen in games.

 

[Henry]

The irony of the above is inescapable.

In regards to the Testament setting, I love the concepts, but I don't think I'll EVER get to run in a game. This is because the best DM for it in our group (an amateur scholar of Jewish history, tradition, and religion) does not like the idea of running it, compared to his other campaign ideas, and me running it for him makes me feel like I'd be running Forgotten Realms for Ed Greenwood.

But one of these days, I will run a Fighter/Judge, darn it!

 

[Voadam]

The irony of the above is inescapable.

In regards to the Testament setting, I love the concepts, but I don't think I'll EVER get to run in a game. This is because the best DM for it in our group (an amateur scholar of Jewish history, tradition, and religion) does not like the idea of running it, compared to his other campaign ideas, and me running it for him makes me feel like I'd be running Forgotten Realms for Ed Greenwood.

But one of these days, I will run a Fighter/Judge, darn it!

I'm the prince of escaping don't you know which point did you find ironic?

 

[EricNoah]

which point did you find ironic?

Probably Mr. Noah answering a question about Noah.

 

[Henry]

I stand corrected.

 

[Voadam]

I wan't sure whether you found the Mr. Noah's Noah expertise, the contradictory biblical references, or buying a setting without expecting to run it, ironic.

 

[diaglo]

But one of these days, I will run a Fighter/Judge, darn it!

with your best Rambo impersonation of Judge Dredd: I am the LAW.