Noah
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Noah is a central figure in Judeo-Christian and Muslim religion. His story is very popular with young and old people. As described in the Book of Genesis, which is the first book of the Bible, Noah and his family kept believing in God in a time when most people were not. Knowing this was true, God told Noah he was going to flood the world, so he could drown out evil. He told Noah to build a boat called an ark, and that he should put himself, his family, and two (male and female) of every kind of animal on it. People laughed at Noah at first, but soon they were killed by the floods. The inhabitants of the ark stayed on the boat not only until the floods were over, but until they reached land. To find land Noah sent out a dove, who returned with an olive branch, to show they were close to land. After the flood, God made a rainbow to say he would never do something like the flood again to Earth.