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17 Iyyar • Patriarchal Era, c. 2348 BC

The Floodgates Of Heaven Are Opened

Catastrophe has struck the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were unlatched. Rain is falling upon the earth in a relentless deluge that will last for forty days and forty nights, executing God's judgment upon a violent world.

"In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened."
— Genesis 7:11
Timeline Box: Genesis 7:11 explicitly dates the beginning of the Great Flood to the 17th of Iyyar.

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17 Iyyar • Patriarchal Era, c. 2348 BC

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