Please try again later. The American Medical Association classifies obesity as a disease, overriding committees' recommendations that better measurement metrics and research are needed. Editor's Note: This article has been edited from its original version to reflect the American Medical Association's vote on Tuesday.
The LORD told Noah and his family to go into the ark. They were to take seven of every kind of clean animal and a pair of every kind of unclean animal. T he LORD then said to Noah, Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
As a newborn Noah was prophesied to bring comfort. God was pleased with Noah, so he chose him to build an ark in order to preserve life in a time when the earth was full of wickedness and violence. His responsibility was to save the animals and his family from the 40-day flood. Noah was 600 years old when the flood began.