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Genesis 7:17Gen.7.17

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Le déluge fut quarante jours sur la terre. Les eaux crûrent et soulevèrent l'arche, et elle s'éleva au-dessus de la terre.

KJV

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 158 (Migne)

    e et scriptum est de aquis diluvii. Vehementer inundaverunt, et levaverunt arcam in sublime a terra (Gen. VII, 17) . Quid enim per aquas nisi tribulationes, et quid per arcam nisi Ecclesia figuratur? Aquis ergo inundantibus levatur arca in sublime a terra , quoniam adversis irrue…

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