Only eight people came out of the ark – Noah and his wife, Noah’s three sons and their wives. Soon Noah’s sons had children. These children grew up. They had children. And after awhile, there were many people on the earth again. These people all lived, close together, in one small part of the earth. One day someone said, “Let’s build us as big city and a big tower. Let’s build a great big tower that will reach up to the sky, way up to heaven.

God still loved Adam and Eve. He still watched over them. He let them pray to Him. He showed them how to make an altar of stones. They were to burn the best animals on the altar, as an offering to God for sin. God heard their prayers, when they said they were sorry for their sins.

All that day Adam and Eve were not happy. Evening came, and they were afraid. They knew God would come to visit the,. They ran to hide among the bushes. They did not want to see God. But God called them. God called, Where are you? They knew they could not hide from God. So they came out of their hiding place. They stood before God. They said, We were afraid.

When God had finished making the animals, He said, “Now let US make a man.  He can take care of all these things that We have made on the earth.” This time God did not speak as He did when He made the fish and the birds and the furry animals. Instead, He took some of the ground and shaped it into a man, with arms, legs, hands, feet and head, just like you and I have.  When He had shaped the man, God breathed his own breath in to the man and the man stood up before God.  He was alive and big and strong.  God called the man Adam.

The ark floated on the water for many, many days. Inside the ark, Noah and his sons took care of the animals every day. But the water was like a great sea. When Noah and the other people looked out the window of the ark, they saw only water, water all around them. Far to the left, and fat to the right, as far away as the could see, there was only water. There was not one house, not one tree, not one green hill. There was just water everywhere. And the ark was all alone on the water.