ence was called sin and they were thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Their punishment was death, they would no longer have eternal life, the woman would suffer in childbirth and her husband would rule over her, mans punishment was a struggle to grow enough food and he would have to work hard to earn a living. Their actions allowed sin to enter into the world and separated mankind from God, they now knew the difference between right and wrong and God would no longer allow them to eat from the tree that lets them live forever. However God chose not to abandon the world but to keep his Covenant with man, this shows that a covenant is not only reliable but also permanent because God has obligated himself to do so. From Genesis 3:15 we can see that God would continue his Covenant with the announcement that from the ranks of now fallen humanity would arise one who would crush the greater enemy of both God and humanity, Satan. God was speaking of Jesus Christ, his son who would bring salvation into a sinful world.
             Eventually, the human race became so ruined that God felt he had no choice but to wipe it out and begin all over again, he was sorry that he ever made them but he was pleased with Noah. And so he sent a worldwide flood to destroy everything except for Noah, his family, and a number of every species of animal. God told Noah how to build the ark and gave him precise instructions. We are unsure how many of each animal went into the Ark; most people would say there were two however there are two versions of Noah's ark. The first is known as the Yahwist version and states that seven pairs of every kosher animal and bird and one pair of every non-Kosher animal entered Ark. The second is the Elohim version, which believes that only one pair of every animal was taken into the Ark. God had sent judgment upon the earth because man was sinful and his heart had become evil and so God destroyed everything that breathed. The flood lasted forty d...