The people roared with laughter.

It became a regular “tourist attraction” to come and watch Noah build this huge sort of a boat away from any body of water, and much too big and heavy to transport it to the sea. They brought even their picnic lunches while listening to Noah preaching, warning and prophesying. They considered him a true comedian, if not a total fool. Whatever he was, they regarded his quest to be an obsession which served as a great entertainment.

The mere thought of Noah assembling every type of animal, fowl, beasts, reptiles, crawling things and insects, etc. and get them to enter the ark was a never-ending source of amusement, of guessing, discussing and arguing, and many placed huge bets on whether or not Noah would succeed with this.

There was a constant audience, ever watching the progress of the building of the ark¹, and how and when he would gather the creatures together, and with what he would feed them. It was the “tale” of the century, broadcasted across the globe, for Noah’s generation was not a club-swinging, donkey-riding backward race but a highly advanced Adamic one, albeit utterly corrupt, violent, godless and immoral, who recognized no natural nor moral boundaries.

After having completed the building of the “boat” of gigantic dimensions, Noah and his family began the ingathering of foods – all sorts of foods, which were bound to rot and fill the ark with an unbearable stench; yet Noah brought large carts filled to capacity into the ark. People were holding their bellies for laughing. Never had they seen anything so absolutely ridiculous and foolish, it actually became outrageously funny, the more as Noah, Shem and Yaphet never stopped preaching repentance and warning of the coming deluge.

Noah’s “bunny trail” was the most talked about laughing stock at the “talk shows” of that generation; no amusement compared with watching and listening to Noah, and mocking his quest.

One day, however, a strange noise was heard, getting ever louder as it seemed to near Noah’s “boat.” People came running to see what it was until there was an audience so vast it could not be numbered. The noise grew, the sound of it threatening, frightening, until suddenly the reason for it became apparent: animals of every kind and size, beasts, reptiles, fowls, and every kind of creeping thing came running, walking, stomping, crawling, flying toward one place – Noah’s BOAT! They all moved as though they had a shepherd who directed them toward this one place, and none of them strayed to the left or to the right, to eat a little here or there. As though hearing a voice no one else could, almost like hypnotized, the creatures ventured toward Noah’s ark and straight up the wide, long gangway as Noah and Shem stood at the foot end of it to guide the animals on, while Yaphet, Ham and the women guided the animals into their respective stalls, lofts, caves and nests.