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 2. I consider the matter,

3. why thou repeatest not to me from thee,

4. and thou repeatest not to me from thee,

5. thy ceasing my heart to make war

6. presses? of thee, I come up after thee,

7. how thou hast done, and in the assembly of the gods ahve thou art placed.

8. Hasisadra after this manner also said to Izdubar:

9. Be revealed to thee Izdubar the concealed story,

10. and the judgment of the gods be related to thee,

11. The city Surippak the city where thou standest not placed,

12. that city is ancient the gods within it

13. their servant, the great gods

14. the god Anu,

15. the god Bel,

16. the god Ninip,

17. and the god lord of Hades;

18. their will he revealed in the midst and

19. I his will was hearing and he spake to me:

20. Surippakite son of Ubaratutu

21. make a ship after this

22. I destroy? the sinner and life

23. cause to go in? the seed of life all of it to the midst of the ship.

24. The ship which thou shalt make,

25. 600? cubits shall be the measure of its length, and