Holy Scripture
Genesis 7:17
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“But let us see where this most sacred number of forty days had its beginning. We read first in the Old Testament that in the time of Noah, when criminal wickedness had seized the whole human race, torrents of water poured forth from the opened floodgates of heaven for just as many days. In a kind of mysterious image o…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.
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15went in to Noah into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
16And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.
— Genesis 7:17 —
18And the water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water.
19And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven.