The Flood Story - Is God Punishing the Earth?

The bible's Noah story is made out of two different noah stories that have been stitched together. In the biblical version, it is a kind of wickedness that is wiping out,. and so and so all, all, all the breath that is in flesh will be a wiped off. But how many days did the flood last? Forty really. It says it rains for forty days and forty nights. And then you get an account that god wipes out mankind because of its wickedness. How many animals did noah bring? Two of each species, male and female. The expectation was, when this flood ends, he'll need to offer a bunch of clean animals as sacrifices. This