I bring the flood upon the earth
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ἐγὼ δὲ ἰδοὺ ἐπάγω τὸν κατακλυσμὸν ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καταφθεῖραι πᾶσαν σάρκα ἐν ᾗ ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτῇ πνεῦμα ζωῆς ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· καὶ ὅσα ἐὰν ᾖ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τελευτήσει.
κατακλυσμός, “deluge, flood”, is the same word the NT uses of this same event (Matt 24:38–39, 2 Pet 2:5) — the source, via Latin, of English “cataclysm”. πνεῦμα ζωῆς, “the breath of life”, echoes the identical phrase at 2:7, where God breathes it into Adam — the flood is framed as undoing that very gift, extinguishing the breath in every creature that carries it.
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