Gênesis 7

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.
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land , died.
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A narrativa de destruição total contradiz evidências arqueológicas de civilizações ininterruptas (Egito, Mesopotâmia) no 3º milênio a.C. A similaridade com o Épico de Gilgamesh (século XVIII a.C.) sugere influência cultural.