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Noah ( /ˈnoʊ.ə/; or Noé, Noach; Hebrew: נֹחַ, נוֹחַ, Modern Noaẖ Tiberian Nōăḥ; Arabic: نُوح Nūḥ; Ancient Greek: Νῶε) was the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs. The story of Noah and the ark is told in chapters 6–9 of the book of Genesis, which is followed by the story of the Curse of Ham. Outside Genesis his name is mentioned in Ezekiel, Isaiah and Chronicles. He was the subject of much elaboration in later Abrahamic traditions, including the Qur'an.
Noah was the tenth of the pre-Flood Patriarchs. His father Lamech named him nûaḥ (the final ḥ is a more gutteral sound than the English h), saying, "This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh from the ground which the LORD hath cursed." This connects the future patriarch's name with nāḥam, "comfort", but it seems better related to the word nûaḥ, meaning "rest", and is more a play on words than a true etymology.
In his five hundredth year Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. In his six hundredth year God, saddened at the wickedness of mankind, sent a great deluge to destroy all life, but because Noah was "righteous in his generation" God instructed him to build an ark and save a remnant of life. After the Flood Noah offered a sacrifice (the word nihoah, describing the "pleasant" odour of the sacrifice, is yet another pun on Noah's name) and entered into a covenant with God regulating the shedding of blood (i.e., mankind's permnission to kill under regulated circumstances). After this he became "the first tiller of the soil", planted a vineyard, and drank the wine, and fell asleep naked; Noah's son Ham saw his father naked and told his brothers, and Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan.
The End may refer to:
Anyone who's shaken dust
Knows that it should fall back
Harmless
It's over now
Things have changed
Everything is different And rearranged
We never got the way that we should go
Tears and heartache, nothing more
I had to play grownup in our game
That wasn't fair, that was the worst thing
And if I didn't say this was the end
You would still be here now
We wanted to be out of our heads
In all that we could do
Daddy didn't but you a diamond ring
And mummy's still waiting for better things
Baby's on his own now he's qualified
Remember I was there on his down days
You'll do good and you know that too
If I can give them I will do
Mummy's gonna buy you a brand new life
Mummy's gonna buy you a brand new life
And if I didn't say this was the end
You would still be here now
We wanted to be out of our heads
In all that we could do
Born leaders, no, no we are not
Born leaders, no, no never growing up
Born leaders, no
My hands be still should my eyes be bright
And if I didn't say this was the end
You would still be here now
We wanted to be out of our heads
In all that we could do
And if I didn't say this was the end
You would still be here now