What Tools Did Noah Use?
Dear Digger Doug,
What tools do you think Noah used to build the Ark?
Dear Lizzie,
I love this question. It helps us think about the Bible stories as real history involving real people. Noah’s family had a lot of work to do to build the massive Ark that was three stories tall and about 450 feet long. The Bible does not tell us the tools they used, so we would have to speculate. Since the primary material for the Ark was gopher wood, then we know wood working tools were important. Also, we know they had metal available to them (read Genesis 4:22). Therefore, they most likely had saws, axes, planes, mallets for inserting wooden pegs, pots for boiling pitch, brushes for putting pitch on the wood, buckets for carrying pitch, ladders, oxen and carts for hauling supplies, and scores of other tools and materials. Can you imagine the hard work and long days they put into building the Ark? I like how the Bible summarizes Noah’s work. “Thus Noah did, according to all that God commanded him, so he did.” Let’s all be like Noah and use whatever tools we need to do all that God commands us.
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