Forty days, forty nights
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ἔτι γὰρ ἡμερῶν ἑπτὰ ἐγὼ ἐπάγω ὑετὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσεράκοντα νύκτας, καὶ ἐξαλείψω πᾶν τὸ ἀνάστεμα ὃ ἐποίησα ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς γῆς.
The countdown begins: seven more days, then forty days and forty nights of rain — a span the Bible reuses for other ordeals (Moses on Sinai, Elijah at Horeb, Jesus in the wilderness). ἀνάστεμα, “substance,” is Swete's own spelling (Brenton reads ἀνάστημα) of a rare word literally meaning “that which stands up” — the LXX's rendering of every living, standing creature God had made.
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