¹¹In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened, ¹²and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark; ¹⁴they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird—every wing. ¹⁵And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which is a living spirit; ¹⁶and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close it for him.

¹⁷And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth; ¹⁸and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters. ¹⁹And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which are under the whole heavens; ²⁰fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered.

²¹And expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind; ²²all in whose nostrils is breath of a living spirit—of all that is in the dry land—have died. ²³And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who are with him in the ark; ²⁴and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

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