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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month: on that day

All the fountains of the great abyss[a] burst forth,
    and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

12 For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth.

13 On the very same day, Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of Noah’s sons had entered the ark,

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Footnotes

  1. 7:11 Abyss: the subterranean ocean; see note on 1:2.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,(A) on the seventeenth day of the second month(B)—on that day all the springs of the great deep(C) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens(D) were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.(E)

13 On that very day Noah and his sons,(F) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.(G)

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