The Flood Ends - 27 Kislev
- AnaRina Bat Tzion Kreisman
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On the 27th of Kislev the cataclysmic flood ended after 40 days.
Gen 7:17:
The Flood continued 40 days on the earth...
The word "Mabul" in Hebrew is not specifically a flood by water. It is a cataclysmic event that "reset" Hashem's world and though Hashem promised that there won't be a total destruction of the earth by water again, we know that there will be another reset during the "birthpangs of Mashiah" (Isaiah 54: 7-10), where a great shaking of the world is expected.
The Flood Story is well known in the ancient world. Here are a few ancient finds giving an account of the story:
The Babylonian Flood Tablet from Megiddo, circa 15th Century BCE
The Mesopotamian account etched into the Epic of Gilgamesh:
The Babylonian Ark Tablet dates back 1700 years before the Common Era: