“In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened; and the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth his sons, his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark: they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind. All birds, and all that fly, went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside. And the flood was forty days…¹

Anno sexcentesimo vitae Noë, mense secundo, septimo decimo die mensis, rupti sunt omnes fontes abyssi magnae, et cataractae caeli apertae sunt. Et facta est pluvia super terram quadraginta diebus et quadraginta noctibus. In articulo diei illius ingressus est Noë, et Sem et Cham et Iaphet filii eius, uxor eius et uxores filiorum eius cum eis, in arcam: ipsi et omne animal secundum genus suum, universaque iumenta in genere suo, et omne quod movetur super terram in genere suo, cunctumque volatile secundum genus suum. Universae aves cunctaeque volucres ingressae sunt Noë in arcam, bina et bina ex omni carne in qua erat spiritus vitae. Et quae ingressa sunt, masculus et femina ex omni carne introierunt, sicut praeceperat ei Deus: et inclusit eum Dominus deforis. Factumque est diluvium quadraginta diebus…