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Noah, &c. enter into the ark.

of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

A window halt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit halt thou finih it above; and the door of the ark halt thou et in the ide thereof; with lower, econd, and third tories halt thou make it.

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to detroy all fleh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth hall die.

But with thee will I etablih my covenant; and thou halt come into the ark, thou, and thy ons, and thy wife, and thy ons' wives with thee.

And of every living thing of all fleh, two of every ort halt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they hall be male and female.

Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every ort hall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou halt gather it to thee; and it hall be for food for thee, and for them.

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, o did he.

1 Noah receiveth command from God, 7 and entereth into the ark with his family and the living creatures. 10 The beginning of the flood as oon as they are entered. 17 Its continual increae for forty days. 21 All fleh is detroyed by it. 24 Its duration.

the aid unto Noah, Come thou and all thy houe into the ark; for thee have I een righteous before me in this generation.

Of every clean beat thou halt take to thee by † evens, the male and his female: and of beats that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Of fowls alo of the air by evens, the male and the female; to keep eed alive upon the face of all the earth.

For yet even days, and I will caue it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living ubtance that I have made will I † detroy from off the face of the earth.

And Noah did according unto all that the commanded him.

And Noah was ix hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

¶ And Noah went in, and his ons, and his wife, and his ons' wives with him, into the ark, becaue of the waters of the flood.

Of clean beats, and of beats that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

¶ And it came to pas ‖ after even days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

In the ix hundredth year of Noah's life, in the econd month, the eventeenth day of the month, the ame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the ‖ windows of heaven were opened.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

In the elfame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the ons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his ons with them, into the ark;

They, and every beat after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every † ort.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all fleh, wherein is the breath of life.

And they that went in, went in male and female of all fleh, as God had commanded him: and the hut him in.

¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increaed, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

And the waters prevailed, and were increaed greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

¶ And all fleh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beat, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

All in whoe notrils was † the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

And every living ubtance was detroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were detroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

¶ And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.