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The text appears to be drawn from a late 19th or early 20th-century children's religious anthology, given its didactic tone and illustrative style. The narrative reflects a devotional interpretation of the Genesis account, enriched with personal reflection and vivid imagery. The chapter was processed and segmented automatically by a structure extraction system, indicating its inclusion in a digitized archival workflow.\n\n## Contents \nThe chapter recounts Noah’s experience after the Ark rests on dry land, emphasizing the joy of stepping onto solid ground after prolonged confinement. It describes the release of animals, the building of an altar, and Noah’s sacrificial offering to God. A central moment is the appearance of the rainbow as a divine covenant, symbolizing God’s promise never to destroy the earth by flood again. The text blends scriptural references with poetic language—such as calling the rainbow “a blazing band of dazzling dyes”—and draws a connection between ancient faith and modern reverence for natural wonders. Two illustrations are referenced within the text (linked via arke: URIs), likely depicting scenes from the Ark’s landing and the sacrifice. The chapter ends abruptly with the title of the next section, “An Ancient Courtship,” indicating its place within a larger anthology.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-26T19:10:50.514Z","description_model":"Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507","description_title":"THE SACRIFICE OF NOAH","end_line":193,"extracted_at":"2026-01-26T19:08:53.924Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"# THE SACRIFICE OF NOAH","source_file":"01KFXVA454RTKCJEQJMP0QKNKY","start_line":121,"text":" 88\t# THE SACRIFICE OF NOAH\n 89\t\n 90\t![img-0.jpeg](arke:01KFXV6MND8P86V43QW0VGQN57)\n 91\t\n 92\tFTER weeks spent on board ship, how delightful to step on land! To feel solid earth beneath your feet is a joy in itself.\n 93\t\n 94\tHow different, too, are the smells. How pleasantly new are the sights. On every side, brain and nerves are alive to fresh sensations.\n 95\t\n 96\tI remember how happy I felt after being twenty-nine days on the Pacific Ocean. The land I stepped upon was full of mountains. How grand, solid-looking, *fast*, they were. Nothing was rocking, swimming, tossing, or seesawing. Even at night I could undress and go to bed without holding on by one hand to the door-knob or clothes-hook. I suppose Americans call their ship bedchamber a “state-room” because they are in so uncertain a state while in them.\n\n\n 97\t4\n 98\t\n 99\tNot so very different was the ark from an Atlantic steamer, for both floated on the same unstable element. Noah looked as long and as eagerly for land as a sail- or in the tops. When the pilot-raven was sent out and came not back, Noah took it as a good sign. Land was near, yet not near enough for the pink toes of a dainty dove. After the messenger dove’s second flight, a letter came from God addressed to Noah. It was not written with pen, nor with ink on paper. It was an olive leaf, glossy green on one side, silvery gray on the other. Noah examined it as eagerly as we look for our friend’s handwriting. Yes, it was a live leaf, not a dead one of last year be- fore the flood. Fresh as a postage-stamp cancelled yesterday, it told the story of time. It was “pluckt off,” the message read, in God’s own words:\n 100\t\n 101\t“Go forth out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.”\n 102\t\n 103\tHow glad Father Noah and all the\n\n\n 104\t![img-0.jpeg](arke:01KFXV6NHS5FRY0HTDE34P75FK)\n 105\tTHE SACRIFICE OF NOAH\n\n\n 106\t.\n\n\n 107\t7\n 108\t\n 109\tyoung folks were to breathe God's air, which is usually so much purer than house or ship air. The great floating chest was like a cattle-ship, for it was full of livestock. After many months of wet and “nasty” weather—as sailors say—their cramped limbs enjoyed the climb up the hill-side. How sure and solid the ground felt to them. No wonder the Psalms are full of gratitude because God “setteth fast” the mountains.\n 110\t\n 111\tFirst, they let free the beasts, birds, and creeping things out of their pens and stalls in the ark. What a scene of frisking, gambolling, and tail-whisking there must have been, as the animals regained their freedom, and scattered over the earth!\n 112\t\n 113\tFathers, mothers, and children, led by Noah, hastened at once to thank God. The way to do this in early ages was to build an altar of stones, and with fire and clean animals laid on it to send up a costly smoke to heaven. So worshipped all the ancient nations when the world was young.\n 114\t\n 115\tHigh up on the mountain’s crest,\n\n\n 116\t8\n 117\t\n 118\twhence they could look off on range upon range of hills and peaks, and upon the water in the valleys, they halted. Quickly they laid the stones in shape. Fire was very hard to get in those days; but besides plenty of drift-wood laying around the ark, they had dry pieces which they rubbed together. Soon a smoke, and then a spark, appeared. By blowing the spark, flame burst forth, and kindled the fuel.\n 119\t\n 120\tLonely places on the mountain-tops are very windy. The stiff breeze blew the loose hair of the men in front of their foreheads, turned the flame sideways, and swept the smoke towards the eastern sky. All in reverent expectation waited for some sign of the divine favor, while they watched anxiously the cloud-covered heavens.\n 121\t\n 122\tStill dark and gloomy was the weather, still black the sky. Why does not God speak as in the olive leaf sent by the dove?\n 123\t\n 124\tSuddenly the west wind rends the clouds, and the afternoon glory of the sun\n\n\n 125\t9\n 126\t\n 127\tburst forth. How green and tender seem the grass and flowers. Even the snow-tipped mountain-range in the far distance becomes rosy.\n 128\t\n 129\tMore glorious than all, see the rainbow—\"a blazing band of dazzling dyes.\" All except the patriarch fall on their knees. They bow to the earth, while Noah lifts up hands and voice in prayer.\n 130\t\n 131\tPleased with his children's faith in Him, pleased with their gratitude, the Heavenly Father makes the bow the sign of his promise of continued favor and help. Soon a second bow of seven glorious colors—violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red—delights their eyes, and the clouds wear the double smile of God. To Noah and his children it meant that the flood should no more destroy man and beast from off the earth.\n 132\t\n 133\tEven to-day there are those whose hearts \"leap up, when they behold a rainbow in the sky;\" for, as of old, it is a sure proof of the Heavenly Father's unceasing love and care.\n\n\n 134\t.\n\n\n 135\tAn Ancient Courtship\n 136\t\n 137\tBy\n 138\tHagelani\n 139\tBrooks.\n\n\n 140\t.\n\n","title":"# THE SACRIFICE OF NOAH"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KFXVB3NCY7R9Q010W4MVJD8K","peer_label":"Chunk 1","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"contains"},{"peer":"01KFXVB3MP1NJQS27400ZA4RQP","peer_label":"Chunk 2","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"contains"},{"peer":"01KFXVB3PABEYYZ8N47FXPNZFY","peer_label":"Chunk 3","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"contains"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-26T19:08:54.287Z","ts":"2026-01-26T19:10:50.873Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}