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116.	thus, 'I have begotten man and let him not
117.	like the sons of the fishes fill the sea.'
118.	The gods concerning the spirits, were weeping with her:
119.	the gods in seats, seated in lamentation;
120.	covered were their lips for the coming evil.
121.	Six days and nights
122.	passed, the wind tempest and storm overwhelmed,
123.	on the seventh day in its course, was calmed the storm, and all the tempest
124.	which had destroyed like an earthquake,
125.	quieted. The sea he caused to dry, and the wind and tempest ended.
126.	I was carried through the sea. The doer of evil,
127.	and the whole of mankind who turned to sin,
128.	like reeds their corpses floated.
129.	I opened the window and the light broke in, over my refuge
130.	it passed, I sat still and
131.	over my refuge came peace.
132.	I was carried over the shore, at the boundary of the sea.
133.	For twelve measures it ascended over the land.
134.	To the country of Nizir, went the ship;
135.	the mountain of Nizir stopped the ship, and to pass over it, it was not able.
136.	The first day and the second day, the mountain of Nizir the same.
137.	The third day and the fourth day, the mountain of Nizir the same.
138.	The fifth and sixth, the mountain of Nizir the same.
139.	On the seventh day in the course of it
140.	I sent forth a dove, and it left. The dove went and searched and
141.	a resting place it did not find, and it returned.
142.	I sent forth a swallow, and it left. The swallow went and searched and
143.	a resting place it did not find, and it returned.
144.	I sent forth a raven, and it left.
145.	The raven went, and the corpses on the waters it saw, and