where did noah live before the flood?
Mesopotamia
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 1925 : Noah 's Ark opens 

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 The mythical patriarch Abraham is described as a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees after an attempt on his life by King Nimrod . 

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 The Bible records that some Jews ( who were exiled by the Babylonians ) , returned to their homeland from Babylon , where they had been settled by Nebuchadnezzar , to rebuild the temple following an edict from Cyrus . The Book of Ezra ( 1 – 4 : 5 ) provides a narrative account of the rebuilding project . Scholars have linked one particular passage from the Cylinder to the Old Testament account : 

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 The final scene is the story of Noah 's drunkenness . After the Flood , Noah tills the soil and grows vines . He is shown doing so , in the background of the picture . He becomes drunk and inadvertently exposes himself . His youngest son , Ham , brings his two brothers Shem and Japheth to see the sight but they discreetly cover their father with a cloak . Ham is later cursed by Noah and told that the descendants of Ham 's son Canaan will serve Shem and Japheth 's descendants forever . Taken together , these three pictures serve to show that Humankind had moved a long way from God 's perfect creation . However , it is through Shem and his descendants , the Israelites , that Salvation will come to the world . 

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 Thomas and Mary Ann ( Rhodes ) Brown had four children ( Arthur , Godfrey , Alice , and Frank ) before leaving England for the warmer climate of the Hawaiian Islands in 1844 . Louis ( died in infancy ) , Cecil , and Malcolm were born in Hawaii . In 1853 the entire family left for Boston to put Arthur , Godfrey , and Frank in school . The remaining members of the Brown family returned to Hawaii at the very end of 1855 . 
