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34.	. . . . . . . . he has turned from me and
35.	. . . . . . . . . . . .fixed . . . . . . . . . .

Here there are about fifteen lines entirely lost. The absent passage probably described part of the building of the ark.

51.	it . . . . . . . .
52.	which in . . . . . . . .
53.	strong . . . . . . I brought
54.	on the fifth day . . . . . it
55.	in its circuit 14 measures . . . . its sides
56.	14 measures it measured . . . . over it
57.	I Placed its roof on it . . . . . I enclosed it
58.	I rode in it, for the sixth time I . . . . . . for the seventh time
59.	into the restless deep . . . . . for the . . . . time
60.	its planks the waters within it admitted,
61.	I saw breaks and holes . . . . . . my hand placed
62.	three measures of bitumen I poured over the outside,
63.	three measures of bitumen I poured over the inside
64.	three measures the men carrying its baskets took they . . . . . fixed an altar
65.	I unclosed the altar . . . . . the altar for an offering
66.	two measures the altar . . . . Pazziru the pilot
67.	for . . . . . . . . slaughtered oxen
68.	of . . . . . . . . . in that day also
69.	. . . . . . . . . . . altar and grapes
70.	. . . . . . . . . . . like the waters of a river and
71.	. . . . . . . . . . . like the day I covered and
72.	. . . . when . . . . . covering my hand placed,
73.	. . . .and Shamas . . . . the material of the ship completed,
74.	. . . . . . . . . strong and
75.	reeds I spread above and below.
76.	. . . . . . went in two thirds of it.
77.	All I possessed I collected it, all I possessed I collected of silver,
78.	all I possessed I collected of gold,
79.	all I possessed I collected of the seed of life, the whole
80.	I caused to go up into the ship, all my male and female servants,