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Genesis 7:10

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512, Sistine Chapel

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Genesis 7:10 (WEB)

After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

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  • “But why in the same place is it also written, “The waters of the flood were upon the earth in the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the twenty-seventh day of the month,” if that very brief year (of which it took ten to make one of ours) consisted of thirty-six days?” — editor's note: Gen. vii. 10, 11, (in our version the seventeenth day).

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