Elohist

We may observe, however, that in Genesis it is only the Elohist—always much addicted to figures—who gives the dimensions of the ark.

But what is, on the contrary, of very decided importance, is the absolute disagreement as to the duration of the Deluge between the Elohist and Jehovist, as well as between the two and the Chaldeo-Babylonian narrator.

Now the dates of the Deluge, given by the Elohist, and re-stated as we have been doing according to Michaelis and Knobel, accord perfectly with these phases of the rising and falling of the two Mesopotamian rivers.

In reality, then, the date given by Berosus only differed by two days from that adopted by the Elohist compiler of Genesis.

According to the figures of the Elohist, Noah lives on among his descendants for 350 years, and dies at the age of 950.