The i. boke of Moſes.
and pitch it within and without with pitch and make it after this faſhion: The length ſhal be thre hundreth cubites, the bredth fiftie cubites, and the heyght thirtie cubites. A wyndow ſhalt thou make aboue of a cubyte greate: but the dore ſhalt thou ſet in the myddeſt in the ſyde of it: And the Arke ſhalt thou make with thre loftes one aboue another. For lo, I wyll bringe a floude of water vpon the earth, to deſtroye all fleſh(wherin the breth of life is) vnder the heauē: All that is vpon earth, ſhal periſhe.
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But with the wyll I make a couenaunt, and thou ſhalt go in to the Arcke with thy ſonnes, with thy wyfe, and with thy ſonnes wyues. And of all creatures what ſo euer fleſh it be, thou ſhalt bringe in to the Arcke, euen a payre: the male and the female, that they maye lyue wt the: Of foules after their kynde, of beaſtes after their kynde, and of all maner wormes of the earth after their kynde. Of euery one of theſe ſhal there a payre go in vnto the, that they maye lyue. And thou ſhalt take vnto the all maner of meate that maye be eaten, and ſhalt laye it vp in ſtoare by the, that it maye be meate for the and them. And Noe dyd acordinge to all that God commaunded him.
The VII. Chapter.
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ANd ye LORDE ſayde vnto Noe: Go in to the Arcke thou ⁊ thy whole houſe: for the haue I ſene righteous before me at this tyme.[crossref 1] Of all cleane beaſtes take vnto the ſeuen and ſeuen, the male and his female.[crossref 2] Like wyſe of the foules vnder the heauen, ſeuen and ſeuen, the male and his female, that there maye be ſede left a lyue vpon the hole earth.
For yet after ſeuen dayes, I wil ſende raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and wyll deſtroye all maner of thinges that I haue made, from the face of the earth.
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And Noe dyd all that the LORDE commaunded him. Sixe hūdreth yeare olde was he, whan the water floude came vpon earth. And he wente in to the Arcke, with his ſonnes, his wyfe, and his ſonnes wyues, for the waters of the floude.[crossref 3] Of cleane beaſtes and of vncleane, of all fethered foules, ⁊ of all that crepeth vpon earth, wente in vnto him to the Arcke by pares, a male and a female, as ye LORDE cōmaunded him. And whan the ſeuen dayes were paſt, the water floude came vpon the earth.
In the ſixe hundreth yeare of Noes age, vpon the ſeuentene daye of the ſeconde moneth, that ſame daye were all ye fountaynes of the greate depe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened, and there came a rayne vpon ye earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
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Vpon the ſelfe ſame daye wēte Noe into the Arcke, with Sem, Ham and Japhet his ſonnes, and with his wyfe, and the thre wyues of his ſonnes, and all maner of beaſtes after their kynde, all maner oſ catell after their kynde, all maner of crepynge thinges(that crepe vpō the earth) after their kynde, and all maner of foules(what ſo euer coude flye ⁊ what ſo euer had fethers) after their kynde: Theſe wente all vnto Noe in to the Arcke by cooples, of all fleſh in whom was the breth of life. And theſe were the male ⁊ the female of all maner of fleſh, and wente in, acordinge as God commaūded him. And the LORDE ſhut(the dore) vpon him.
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Then came the water floude fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the water increaſed, and bare vp the Arcke, and lift it vp ouer ye earth.[crossref 4] Thus the water preuayled, and increaſed ſore vpon the earth, ſo that the arcke wente vpon the waters. Yee the waters preuayled and increaſed ſo ſore vpon earth, that all the hye mountaynes vnder the whole heauen were couered. Fyftene cubytes hye preuayled ye waters ouer the mountaynes, which were couered.
Then all fleſh that crepte vpon the earth periſhed, both foules, catell, beaſtes, and all yt moued vpon earth, and all men. What ſo euer had the breth of life vpon the drye londe, dyed.
Thus was deſtroyed all that was vpon the earth, both man and beaſt, both wormes and foules vnder ye heauē: all theſe were deſtroyed from the earth, Saue Noe onely remayned, and they that were with him in the Arcke.[crossref 5] And the waters preuayled vpon the earth, an hundreth and fiftie dayes.
