Dear Bro. Rushmore, I enjoy your website very much. I appreciate the good job you do with it. I have a Bible Question for you. One of our Bible Class teachers asked me if Noah put fish on the ark? I told her I had never really thought about it. So I read Gen. 6 & 7 and did not see any indication that he did. Would I be correct in telling her that no fish were on the ark since God does not specifically mention them being there. I look forward to your reply. Hayden Childs
Genesis 7:2-3, 8, 14 identify Noah’s non-human passengers as beasts, cattle, fowl and creeping things from the earth (i.e., land). Further, including Noah’s family and the non-human passengers, they all were such creatures in which there was “the breath of life” (Genesis 7:15). Genesis 7:22 summarizes what creatures (including man) that died as being “All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.” Again, the next verse stipulates that only the creatures on the surface of the land were affected by the great deluge. “And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth …” The biblical record clearly reveals that sea creatures, including fish, were not the object of the destructive flood of Noah’s day. No fish were on the ark as part of the ‘two by two’ passengers. (This doesn’t preclude the possibility that fish may have served as food on the ark for either Noah’s family or the animal passengers.)
