God let out a great big sigh. He had just taken a look at the world and realized that it was violent and corrupt. The best thing to do, He thought, would be to kill everyone and try again. He had tried to think of different ways of doing it but in the end decided to drown the whole world and everything in it. Unfortunately, this meant killing millions of animals as well. They really hadn’t done anything wrong and weren’t exactly what you’d call corrupt, but then some of them were pretty violent. Almost all of the insects would have to die too, but most of them are kind of creepy looking anyway.

But there was one bright spot. God was able to find a man who was actually quite descent. In fact, as far as his generation went, he was perfect! His name was Noah, and God decided to save him along with his family.

God told Noah to build a huge wooden boat and gather aboard seven pairs of each of the “clean” animals  and one pair of each of the “unclean” animals from throughout the world. He had to get two of every species of bird and insect as well. The insects were a real nuisance because Noah had to build thousands of little boxes to hold them in so the other animals didn't step on them. Noah wouldn't have known just how difficult this was going to be...

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