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And it came to pass that Lamech, the father of Noah, died, and Ashmuah, his wife, would not be comforted; and not but a few moonsa after she too died.
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And it soon came to pass that Adnah, the mother of Lamech, went the way of the earth, she having lived to see her grandchildren marry, and Methuselah and Noah and the wife of Noah and children mourned.
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Yeah, and it came to pass in that same year that Methuselah too passed away;
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And thus all the children of Elohima who knew YHVHb, died in that year before YHVH poured out that floodc upon them save it be Noah and his wife, and their sons and the wives of their sons;
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For YHVH willed them to pass on that they not endure this thing that YHVH Elohima should bring upon the landb, as He had so declared to do by the mouths of the prophets and prophetesses;
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And Elohim looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the land.
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¶ And it came to pass that Elohim said unto Noah and Na’amah: The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with wrong doinga;
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And behold, all living things will I bring to ruin that all living flesh from off the land.
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And thou shalt cover these nests within and without as thou would a house, yet ye shall seal it up;
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And the length of the ark thou shalt make three hundreda cubitsb, the width of it fiftyc cubits, and the height of it thirtyd cubits.
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And windows there shall be none, and though shall make a tsohara unto me that ye shall have light in the ark as though it were midday.
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And thou shalt thou make to the ark, and one cubit from above shalt thou finish it; and in the side thereof thou shalt set an opening;
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And within the ark a lower, second, and third chambers shalt thou make.
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¶ And lo, I, even I AMa, shall advance upon thee in a flood of waterb upon the land to destroy all flesh, wherein is the Breath of Lifec, from under heaven; everything that liveth on the earthd shall die.
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But with thee will I establish my covenanta, even as I have sworn unto thy father, Enochb, that of thy posterity shall come all nations.
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And thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy wives of thy sons with thee.
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¶ And of all living thing of all flesh, two of every kind shalt thou bring into the ark to keep alive with thee; they shall be male and femalea.
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Of fowlsa after their kind, and of cattleb after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind; two of every kind shalt thou take into the ark to keep alivec.
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And take thou unto thee of all fooda that is eatenb; and thou shalt gather food of every kind unto thee in the ark, and it shall be for food for thee and for the animals:
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Of every beast that thou shalt take for food, thou shalt take to thee by sevens, each and its mate, and of beasts that are not to be eaten by two, each and its mate;
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Of fowls also of the air, by sevens, each and its mate the same, both for food and to keep seed alive upon the face of the earth:
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For it shall be that in seven daysa will I cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nightsb;
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¶ Thus did Noah and his family do, according to all that Elohim gave unto them.
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¶ And YHVH came again unto Noah and Na’amah in their six hundredth degreea, saying: Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee only have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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And Noah and Na’amah and their sons and the wives of their sons did according to all that YHVH commanded them;
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And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark expecting the waters of the flooda;
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And with them they brought the beasts, and the fowls, and everything that creepeth upon the earth there went in into the ark, male and female, even as Elohim commanded them;
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And they went unto Noah and Na’amah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life; and YHVH shut them in.
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¶ And it came to pass that after seven days the waters of the flood were upon the earth;
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And all the fountains of the great abyss broke open, and the veila between the earth and the heavens was rent apartb, and the waters were upon the lands forty days and forty nights.
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And the children of man assembled together, even the daughter of Noah and Na’amah, and their husbands came with them, and these came unto Noah, to the ark;
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And they called to Noah, saying: Open thy doors for us that we may come in unto thee in the ark and that we shall not die!
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And Noah, with a voice to be heard over the thunders and the rains, answered them, saying: Have thou not all rebelled against YHVH?
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And hath thou not reveled in thy sins, sayinga: Look upon us and see, are we not alive in the flesh:
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Eating, and drinking, and marrying, and given in marriage, living upon the very Breatha of the Creatorb?
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And thus I say unto thee now that YHVH hath not brought upon you this evil, to destroy and cut you off from the face of the eartha, but ye have brought it upon thyselves.
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Is not this the very thing that was prophesied unto thee from years back, that I and my father, and the father of my father sayeth unto thee?
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And thou would not hearken to the Voicea of YHVH, and now doth thou desire to live upon this landb?
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¶ And these cried out unto Noah, saying: We are ready walk with thee in teshuvaha unto YHVH; but open thy doors for us that we may live!
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And Noah answered them, saying: Behold now that thou seeth the trouble of thy souls thou seeketh teshuvah unto YHVH?
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And I ask thee, why did thou not seek teshuvah in the time of thy probation that YHVH Elohim did give unto thee?
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And now thou cometh unto me to preserve thy lives, now also YHVH shall not listen to thee, neither will give thee ear, and thou shall not be granted thy wisha.
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¶ And the children of man approached the ark to take unto them efforts to break in, for they could not bear the rain upon them;
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But YHVH had sealed up the ark in His mercy, and thus Noah and his wife, Na’amah, and their sons, and the wives of their sons, these were preserved unto Elohim in Yaha.