How many souls were saved from the flood?

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The main idea here is identifying how many human lives were preserved through the flood story. Genesis records that Noah, his wife, their three sons, and each of their wives went into the ark. That makes eight people in total. In this context, “souls” refers to living human beings, not animals. So eight is the number of people saved when the waters covered the earth. Animals were aboard as well, but the count of souls saved focuses on the humans.