Editing Noah (section)

===Genesis flood narrative===
{{Main|Genesis flood narrative}}

The Genesis flood narrative is encompassed within chapters 6–9 in the [[Book of Genesis]], in the [[Bible]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Silverman|first=Jason|title=Opening Heaven's Floodgates: The Genesis Flood Narrative, Its Context, and Reception|year=2013|publisher=[[Gorgias Press]]}}</ref> The narrative indicates that [[Yahweh|God]] intended to return the [[Earth]] to its pre-Creation state of watery [[Chaos (cosmogony)|chaos]] by flooding the Earth because of humanity's misdeeds and then remake it using the microcosm of [[Noah's ark]]. Thus, the flood was no ordinary overflow but a reversal of [[Genesis creation narrative|Creation]].<ref name="Bandstra2008">{{cite book|author=Barry L. Bandstra|title=Reading the Old Testament: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRY9mTUZKJcC&pg=PR19|date=2008|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-495-39105-0|page=61}}</ref> The narrative discusses the evil of mankind that moved God to destroy the world by way of the flood, the preparation of the ark for certain animals, Noah, and his family, and God's guarantee (the [[Noahic Covenant]]) for the continued existence of life under the promise that he would never send another flood.{{sfn|Cotter|2003|pp=49, 50}}