This discovery opened up the floodgates to research and led to the establishment of the discipline as a legitimate field of inquiry.
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Floodgates
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In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
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The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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