Minor episodes are added to explain details upon which Scripture is silent» the sons» wives are sent to distant lands to
gather pairs of animals, and it is the giants, mentioned briefly before Noah appears, who provide the timber for the Ark» but nothing in the account is altered.
He died at the ripe old age
of 969, just seven days before the Great Flood, which Noah prepared for by
gathering his family as well as a
pair of every
animal.