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Masoretic Text: And Noah was six hundred years old when the deluge was water upon the earth.
The wording is odd. The Septuagint ends the verse with "when the flood of water was upon the earth." By emendation to the vowel-points only, one could read miyyam ("from the sea") instead of mayim ("water"). Then we would translate: "when the deluge came from the sea upon the earth."
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