17 — Person: Japheth

Number: 17

Person: Japheth

Action: In the ark as the waters rise (one of Noah's three sons)

Object: The ark

Scripture connection: Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Memory hook: 17th day of the second month — the day the flood began (Genesis 7:11). Japheth, one of three sons in the ark; the number 17 is the date the door shut and the rain began.

Why this number? 17th day, second month — Genesis 7:11. The flood begins on the seventeenth; Japheth is in the ark with Noah, Shem, and Ham — one son, one date.