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But as the days of Noah [were], so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drin-
king, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered in-
to the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew, 24: 37-39)
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a pre-
acher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the un-
godly. (Second Peter, 2: 5)
And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son
of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came,
and destroyed them all. (Luke, 17: 26-27)
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens
were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whe-
reby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. (Se-
cond Peter, 3: 5-6)

Accounts of the Flood in Other Cultures
Sumer: A god called Enlil told people that other gods intended to dest-
roy humanity, but that he himself was willing to save them. The hero of
the story is Ziusudra, the devotee king of the city of Sippur. God Enlil told
Ziusudra what to do to be saved from the Flood. The text relating the ma-
king of the boat is missing, but the fact that such a part once existed is re-
vealed in the parts in which it is told how Ziusudra is saved. Relying on
the Babylonian version of the flood, one reaches the conclusion that in the
complete Sumerian version of the event there must have been much mo-
re comprehensive details of the reason for the Flood and how the boat was
made.

Babylonia: Ut-Napishtim is the Babylonian counterpart of the Sumeri-
an hero of the Flood, Ziusudra. Another important character is Gilgamesh.
According to the legend, Gilgamesh decided to seek and find his ancestry
to obtain the secret of immortality. He was warned against the dangers and
difficulties of such a journey. He was told that he was supposed to make
a journey in which he should pass over the "Mashu Mountains and waters
of death"; and that such a journey had only been accomplished by the sun-

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