1. Announcement of the Deluge vi. 11-13. vi. 5-8. i. 12-23. 2. Command to build the ark vi. 14-16. i. 20-27. 3. What was to enter the ark vi. 19-21. vii. 2, 3. i. 41-43. 4. Size of the ark vi. 15, 16. i. 25, 26. 5. Speech of Xisuthrus i. 45-52. 6. The building of the ark vi. 22. vii. 5. ii. 2-24. 7. The coating within and without with bitumen. vi. 14. ii. 10, 11. 8. Food taken in the ark. vi. 21. ii. 12-20. 9. The coming of the Flood vii. 10-12. vii. 10. ii. 14, &c. 10. Destruction of the people vii. 21, 22. vii. 23. iii. 2-15. 11. Duration of the Deluge vii. 12, 24. vii. 17. iii. 19-21. 12. Assuaging of the waters viii. 1. viii. 2. iii. 21-23. 13. Opening of window viii. 6. iii. 27. 14. Ark rests on a mountain viii. 4. iii. 33-36. 15. Sending forth of the birds viii. 6-12. iii. 38-44. 16. Order to leave the ark viii. 15-17. 17. Leaving the ark viii. 18, 19. iii. 45. 18. Building the altar and sacrifice viii. 20. iii. 46-48. 19. The savour of the offering viii. 21. iii. 49. 20. A deluge not to happen again ix. 11. viii. 21, 22. iv. 15-20. 21. The Covenant ix. 9-11. iv. 26. 22. The rainbow a pledge of the covenant ix. 13-17. iii. 51, 52. 23. The Deluge caused by the sin of men vi. 11-13. vi. 5-7. iv. 14, 15. 24. Noah saved by his righteousness vi. 8., vii. 1. iv. 16. 25. The translation of the patriarch (in Genesis of Enoch) v. 24. iv. 28-30. One of the first points that strike us on comparing the Biblical and cuneiform accounts together is that they both agree in representing the Flood as a punishment for the sins of mankind. This agreement is rendered remarkable by the absence of such a moral cause in the legends of a deluge current among other nations; it is wanting even in the version of the Babylonian account given by Berosus. Equally remarkable is the agreement of the two accounts in the narrative of the sending forth of the birds, two of which, the raven and the dove, are the same in both. Some of the actual phrases and words found in Genesis are also found in the cuneiform tablet; though sometimes they are modified, as when Genesis says of the entrance of Noah into the ark: “The Lord shut him in;” whereas in the Babylonian narrative the closing of the door is ascribed to Xisuthrus himself.