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 hence v.$7$ presupposes v.$10$. The same order of events is found in P ($11. 13$) and in the Babylonian legend: "when the lords of the darkness send at evening a (grimy?) rain, enter into the ship and close thy door" (l. 88 f.).—16b (which must in any case follow immediately on v.$7$) contains a fine anthropomorphism, which (in spite of the Bab. parallel just cited) it is a pity to spoil by deleting and making Noah the implicit subject (Klost. NKZ, i. 717).—12. forty days and forty nights] This determination, which in J expresses the entire duration of the Flood, seems to have been treated by R as merely a stage in the increase of the waters (cf. 8$6$). It obviously breaks the connexion of P. The Babylonian deluge lasted only six days and nights (l. 128).—17b. Parallel to $18$ (P).—22, 23. A singularly effective description of the

the words either replace (as v.$1$), or are a pure insertion;—in either case redactional.—] so 7$10$ (J), 9$11$ (P) (ct., 6$17$ 7$6$).—] G ; V diluvium; S and T$O$ (T$J$ ). The word has usually been derived from, 'streaming' (see Ges. Th., Di.); but is more probably a foreign word without Heb. etymology (see Nö. ZDMG, xl. 732). Del. (Parad. 156) proposed the derivation from Ass. nabâlu, 'destroy,' which is accepted by König (ii. 153), Ball (p. 53), and others. The Bab. technical equivalent is abûbu, which denotes both a 'light-flood' and a 'water-flood': the double sense has been thought to explain P's addition of to the word (see on 6$17$). A transformation of the one name into the other is, however, difficult to understand (see KAT$3$, 495$1$, 546$2$). In Ps. 29$10$ appears to be used in a general sense without a historic reference to the Noachic Deluge (see Duhm, ad loc.).—8, 9 present a mixed text. The distinction of clean and unclean points to J; but all other features ( [though a reading seems attested by [E]VT$J$, and MSS of G]; ; the undiscriminated at the beginning of v.$8$]) to P. In P the vv. are not wanted, because they are a duplicate of $13-16$: they must therefore be assigned to an interpolator (Bu. al.).—10. On the construction of the sentence, see G-K. § 164 a, and on v.$6$ below.—12. ] ([root] ǧasuma = 'be massive') commonly used of the heavy winter rain (Ezr. 10$9$, Ca. 2$11$): see GASm. HG, 64.—16b. ] G + .—17b. Since $18$ belongs to P, its duplicate $17b$ must be from J, where it forms a natural continuation of $12$. $17a$, on the other hand (in spite of the 40 days), must be assigned to P (see p. 164).—22. ] is an unexampled combination, arising from confusion of a phrase of J (, 2$7$) with one of P (, 6$17$ 7$15$). The v. being from J (cf. instead of ;  instead of, $21$),  is naturally the word to be deleted.—23a as a whole is J ; but the clause    seems again (cf. 6$7$)
 * the categorical enumeration [to which G adds the birds