Ark Encounter nest in them. Much of the wood used to build the Ark Encounter was sourced from renewable forests or trees infested by beetles. During construction, former President Jimmy Carter toured the Ark Encounter, accepting an invitation from LeRoy Troyer, president of the Troyer Group. Ark Encounter opened on July 7, 2016, a date (7/7) chosen to correspond with Genesis 7:7: "And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood." AiG also announced that, for the first 40 days and 40 nights of Ark Encounter's operation – an
Book of Noah En. 106-107 On these chapters may have followed Eth. En. 6-11., 65-69:25, 60, 41:3-8, 43-44, 54:7-55:2; Jubilees 7:26-39, 10:1-15. The Hebrew "Book of Noah", a later work, is printed in Adolf Jellinek's "Bet ha-Midrasch", 3:155-156, and translated into German in Rönsch, "Das Buch der Jubiläen", 385-387. It is based on the part of the above Book of Noah which is preserved in the "Book of Jubilees". The portion of this Hebrew work which is derived from the older work is reprinted in Charles's "Ethiopic Version of the Hebrew Book of Jubilees", p. 179. James Charlesworth writes (footnotes used for clarity)