5:26 He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation, ¹ 

he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth.

Look, they ²  come quickly and swiftly.

5:27 None tire or stumble,

they don’t stop to nap or sleep.

They don’t loosen their belts,

or unstrap their sandals to rest. ³ 

5:28 Their arrows are sharpened,

and all their bows are prepared. ⁴ 

The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, ⁵ 

and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm. ⁶ 

5:29 Their roar is like a lion’s;

they roar like young lions.

They growl and seize their prey;

they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

5:30 At that time ⁷  they will growl over their prey, ⁸ 

it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. ⁹ 

One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster,

clouds will turn the light into darkness. ¹⁰ 

7:17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. 7:18 The waters completely overwhelmed ¹  the earth, and the ark floated ²  on the surface of the waters. 7:19 The waters completely inundated ³  the earth so that even ⁴  all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. 7:20 The waters rose more than twenty feet ⁵  above the mountains. ⁶ 

8:6 At the end of forty days, ⁴  Noah opened the window he had made in the ark ⁵  8:7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying ⁶  back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

8:8 Then Noah ⁷  sent out a dove ⁸  to see if the waters had receded ⁹  from the surface of the ground.

9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.