In the Noah’s Ark story, what did Noah plant after leaving the ark?
Answer
A vineyard
Answer
A vineyard
In the Noah’s Ark story, Noah planted a vineyard after leaving the ark. Genesis 9:20 says that Noah, described there as a man of the soil, began by planting a vineyard after the Flood.
The following verses describe Noah drinking wine, becoming drunk, and lying uncovered in his tent. The episode introduces a family conflict involving Ham and Noah’s other sons, and it leads to Noah’s declarations concerning Canaan, Shem, and Japheth.
This scene is separate from the earlier account of Noah’s first sacrifice after leaving the ark. Genesis 8:20 says Noah built an altar and offered some clean animals and birds; Genesis 9 then moves to the vineyard episode. Mixing those two post-Flood actions can produce the wrong answer.
The passage also makes Noah the first person in Genesis explicitly associated with cultivating a vineyard after the Flood. It does not say that he planted an olive grove, wheat field, or fig orchard at that point, even though those crops appear elsewhere in biblical and ancient Near Eastern contexts.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026