Genesis 9:28-29

"And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died."

Since Abraham was born about 292 years after the Flood, it appears that, for 58 years, Noah was a contemporary of Abraham!

Lessons from this narrative are many:

1. Temptation and sin are of the greatest danger immediately following victory.
2. Satan assaults the soul with the most vigorous efforts both at the beginning of life (or a career), and at the end of it. Either way, if one falls, the shadow lengthens to lie over the whole life.
3. Idle gossip is exceedingly sinful and dangerous.
4. Countless generations may suffer as the result of a single individual's wickedness. Cain and Canaan both appear in these early chapters as examples of this.
5. It is not the big temptations alone that cause people to fail, but the little ones as well. Noah could withstand the scorn of the whole world, but he could not resist the over-indulgence of his appetite!
6. Even the greatest and best of men are no substitute for Christ, who alone is the Perfect One and the Saviour of all people.