^{17 Ref} And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

^{18 Ref} and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.

^{19 Ref} And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which `are' under the whole heavens;

^{20 Ref} fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;

^{21 Ref} and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

^{22 Ref} all in whose nostrils `is' breath of a living spirit -- of all that `is' in the dry land -- have died.