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THE STORY OF THE FLOOD
49. . . . . I may see also the sliip . . . .
50. . . . . on the ground the ship . . . .
51. the ship making which thou commandest me . .
52. which in . . . .
Column II.
. . . .
1. strong. . . . it
2. on the fifth day. . . its frame.
3. in its circuit 14 measures. . . over it.
4. 14 measures it measured. . . . I enclosed it.
5. I placed its roof, it6. I rode in it on the sixth time; I examined its exterior on the seventh time;
7. its interior I examined on the eighth time.
8. Planks against the waters within it I placed.
9. I saw rents and the wanting parts I added.
10. 3 measures of bitumen I poured over the outside.
11. 3 measures of bitumen I poured over the inside.
12. 3 . . . men carrying its baskets, they constructed boxes
13. I placed in the boxes the offering they sacrificed.
14. Two measures of boxes I had distributed to the boatmen.
15. To . . . . were sacrificed oxen
16. . . . . . . . . dust and
17. . . . . . . . . wine in receptacle of goats
18. I collected like the waters of a river, also