The Book of Jasher 25

¹🔗nd great anxiety seized all the living creatures that were in the ark, and the ark was like to be broken.

²🔗 And all the living creatures that were in the ark were terrified, and the lions roared, and the oxen lowed, and the wolves howled, and every living creature in the ark spoke and lamented in its own language, so that their voices reached to a great distance, and Noah and his sons cried and wept in their troubles; they were greatly afraid that they had reached the gates of death.

³🔗 And Noah prayed unto the Lord, and cried unto him on account of this, and he said, O Lord help us, for we have no strength to bear this evil that has encompassed us, for the waves of the waters have surrounded us, mischievous torrents have terrified us, the snares of death have come before us; answer us, O Lord, answer us, light up thy countenance toward us and be gracious to us, redeem us and deliver us.

⁴🔗 And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Noah, and the Lord remembered him.

⁵🔗 And a wind passed over the earth, and the waters were still and the ark rested.

⁶🔗 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

⁷🔗 And the waters decreased in those days, and the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

⁸🔗 And Noah then opened the windows of the ark, and Noah still called out to the Lord at that time and he said, O Lord, who didst form the earth and the heavens and all that are therein, bring forth our souls from this confinement, and from the prison wherein thou hast placed us, for I am much wearied with sighing.

⁹🔗 And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Noah, and said to him, When though shalt have completed a full year thou shalt then go forth.

¹⁰🔗 And at the revolution of the year, when a full year was completed to Noah's dwelling in the ark, the waters were dried from off the earth, and Noah put off the covering of the ark. 39.