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Noah
God then ordered Noah to build, and caulk with pitch, an ark of
gopher-wood large enough for himself, his family and chosen examples
of all other creatures living on earth.
He must take seven beasts
and birds of every clean kind, two of every unclean kind and two
creeping things of every kind. He must also provide them with food.
Noah spent fifty-two years on this shipwright’s task; he worked
slowly in the hope of delaying God’s vengeance.
Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer ch. 23 |
