Can you jump out of the ark? God sealed the door. Could Noah have opened it to jump out?
That may not be the best anology, as GOD sealing the door from the outside was not trying to KEEP NOAH IN, but rather to keep the Water Out.
Genesis 8:4-14 (YLT)
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4 [/SUP] And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;
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5 [/SUP] and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth
month, on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.
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6 [/SUP] And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days, that
Noah openeth the window of the ark which he made,
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7 [/SUP] and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth.
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8 [/SUP] And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,
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9 [/SUP] and the dove hath not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turneth back unto him, unto the ark, for waters
are on the face of all the earth, and he putteth out his hand, and taketh her, and bringeth her in unto him, unto the ark.
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10 [/SUP] And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark;
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11 [/SUP] and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.
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12 [/SUP] And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.
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13 [/SUP] And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first
month, in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and
Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark,
{the door} and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.
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14 [/SUP] And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.