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Chazal say that the Flood lasted exactly a year. However, it began on the seventeenth of Marcheshvan, and ended on the twenty-seventh!

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Rashi, Riva: The punishment lasted a full (solar) year, which exceeds the lunar year by eleven days.

Sefer: Perek: Pasuk:

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