(5) And he enterecT in the sixth (year) thereot, in the second month, on the new moon of the sernnH mpjith^flM^jxtpSth^ and he entered, ana all that we brought to him, into the ark, and the Lord closed it from without on the seventeenth evening. "

(89) But that vessel floated on the water, while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals, so that I could no longer see them, and they were not able to escape, (but) perished and sank into the depths.

(5) And the waters increased upon the earth : Fifteen cubits did the waters rise above all the high mountains, . And the ark was lift up above the earth, And it moved upon the face of the waters. ^. And the water prevailed on the face of the earth five months — one hundred and fifty days.

(5) And the ark went and rested on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat. 2Q. And Ibn the new mooiilin the foujlh month TFe fountain^ pi the great deep were closed and the flood-gates oi heaven were restrained; and on the new moon of the seventh mon^ all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the water began to descend into the deep

(5) And on the twenty-seventh^ thereof he opened the ark, and sent forth from it beasts, and cattle, and birds, and every moving thing. Noah* Sacrifice ; God's Covenant with him (cf . Gen. viii. -ix. ). Instructions to Moses about eating of Blood, the Feast of Weeks, etc., and Division of the Year (vi. -).

(26) Then God sent the Deluge [or Flood] upon the whole World, and drowned all Flesh, except Noah, who cleaved to the Word of God; he and his Sons and their Wives were preserved; and so the World was tried, whether it would be afraid of the horrible Judgment, and cleave to the Word, but it was all in vain. Then God chose to himself the Generation of Shem, (which cleaved to the Word,) that so he might erect a Light and Office of Preaching, that the World might learn from them. But all availed nothing; the Stars ruled Men according to their Source [or Quality,] in mere Covetousness, Unchastity, and Pride; which was indeed so very great, that they purposed to build a Tower, whose Top should reach to Heaven. Such blind People they were as to the Kingdom of God.

(5) And the flood-gates began to pour down water from the heaven forty days and forty nights, And the fountains of the deep also sent up waters, until the whole world was full of water.

(5) And Noah made the ark jn all respects as He commanded him, in the twenty-seventh jubilee of years, in the fifth week in the fifth vearjon the new moon of the Jirst month).

(6) And on the new_mponof the first month he was bidder^ {o make ior hjmsp)f an~ ark._and on that (day) the earth became dry anol he opened (the ark) and saw the earth,