Genesis 7:15-24

At the Easter vigil the priest prays, " O God, who by the outpouring of the flood foreshadowed regeneration, so that from the mystery of one and the same element of water would come an end to vice and a beginning of virtue."

18-19: The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, but the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Higher and higher on the earth the waters swelled, until iall the highest mountains under the heavens were submerged,