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  • They went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Genesis 7:9.

  • For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 24:38.

  • And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine. 'Idon'tcare wherethewatergoesif it doesn't get intothe wine.'

    - G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
      The FlyingInn, ch.5, stanza1. Collected as'Wine and Water' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).

  • A pesar de que la m|a es historia, no la empezare   por el arca de Noe   y la genealog|a de sus ascendientes como acostumbraban hacerlo los antiguos historiadores espan‹  oles deAme  rica, que deben ser nuestros prototipos. I'm going to tell a true story, but I won't start with Noah's Ark and the genealogy of his forefathers, as is usual among the ancient Spanish historians of America, who we consider our prototypes.

    - Esteban Echeverr|  a
      El matadero (The Slaughter-House,1959).

  • Forgive the hero, you who would have died Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide To Ararat; all men are Noah's sons.

    - Richard Wilbur
      Ceremony and Other Poems,'Still, Citizen Sparrow'.

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