The NIV Bible corroborates the timeline from the creation of the Adapa to the time that they were so numerous that Enlil wanted them terminated, namely 600 years, Noah’s age at the time of the flood.
Genesis 7:11 (NIV)
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. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Atrahasis later contradicts the 40 day continuous rain, specifying only 7 days of rain in the Sumerian account. It is also interesting to question the ages shown in the Bible from Adam to Noah in Genesis 5. The phenomenal ages listed range up to 895 years for Mahalalel and 962 years for Jared. Could it be that the ages were simply exaggerated or could the Anunnaki blood line, at its more pure state before dilution after generational mixing with mankind, accounted for the exceptional ages mentioned therein? Another point worth noting is the genetic age constraint the Anunnaki placed on their primitive workers, providing them with the intelligence to follow instructions in the mines, but a short life to prevent overpopulation. As pointed out in Genesis 6:3, mankind was allotted a maximum of a 120 year lifespan. This coincides with the Atrahasis account. Checking online, the oldest person in recorded history was Ms. Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived from 21 February, 1875 to 4 August, 1997. She was officially recorded to be 122 years, 164 days old. Looks like she broke the Anunnaki genetic mold by a small amount, namely 2 years and 164 days. Although, given the multitudes that have stepped foot on Earth, the 120 year genetic design target seems to have worked quite well.
The text towards the end of Atrahasis Tablet 1 establishes that a close relationship exists between Atrahasis and the great god Enki. From the genealogy table shown in [48, pg. 316] and the Lost Book of Enoch [36], it is asserted that Atrahasis was none other than the offspring of Enki and Batanash, the wife of the Biblical Lamech [14]. That being said, Enki coordinates a rebellion among mankind with Atrahasis his son, providing instructions as to how to perform a peaceful protest and shame the powers that be (Enlil) into ceasing the punishment by sϋruppu-disease, whatever that ailment was. Enki’s intercession appears to have worked, much to Enlil’s chagrin, clenching his jaw in preparation for the next onslaught against human fodder. Enlil orders a new genocidal tactic:
Atrahasis Tablet 1 [37, pg. 20]
He addressed the great gods, (Elil= Enlil)
“The noise of mankind has become too much, I am losing sleep over their racket.
Cut off food supplies to the people!
Let the vegetation be too scant for their hunger!
Let Adad wipe away his rain. (Iskur Adad is one of Enlil’s sons)
Below, let no flood-water flow from the springs.
Let wind go, let it strip the ground bare,
Let clouds gather but not drop rain,
Let the field yield a diminished harvest,
Let Nissaba stop up her bosom.
No happiness shall come to them.”
Again, Enki runs intercession on behalf of the people, coaching them how to deal with the ill will of his half-brother, Enlil. Enki instructs the people to resist by not praying to their goddess and shaming Iskur Adad for averting rain for the crops. Enki’s intercession works again, but not for long. Enlil persists in his multi-pronged approach to wipe out mankind. He sends additional diseases to put an end to their noise. Mankind was summarily afflicted with sickness, headaches, and sϋruppu and asakku disease.
Atrahasis Tablet 1 [37, pg. 26)
The field decreased its yield, Nissaba turned away her breast,
The dark fields became white,
The broad countryside bred alkali,
Earth clamped down her teats:
No vegetation sprouted, no grain grew.
Asakku was inflicted on the people,
The womb was too tight to let a baby out.
(gap)
When the second year arrived
They had depleted the storehouse.
When the third year arrived,
The people’s looks were changed by starvation.
When the fourth year arrived
Their upstanding bearing bowed,
Their well-set shoulders slouched,
People went out in public hunched over.
When the fifth year arrived,
A daughter would eye her mother coming in;
A mother would not even open her door to her daughter.
A daughter would watch the scales at the sale of her mother,
A mother would watch the scales at the sale of her daughter,
When the sixth year arrived
They served up a daughter for a meal,
Served up a son for food.
Atrahasis seeks out his lord Enki yet again to protect himself and what is left of mankind against the genocidal onslaught that Enlil has brought to bear. This request for intercession once again leads to conflict between the two brothers. Enlil, still not satisfied with the destruction and disease he has brought to fruition against mankind, orders Enki to cause a flood to wipe out the remaining humans. Enki refuses angrily. Although the Anunnaki had the ability to manipulate the weather with a system like HAARP, it is not clear in these circumstances that the great flood to come was caused by the Anunnaki, but rather by gravitational forces wrought by Nibiru’s passing Earth, enroute to a 3,600 year solar perigee. The knowledge of a coming tsunami-wave generated by slipping ice sheets at the Poles [14], with the potential to wipe out Mesopotamia, was to be kept from man by Enlil’s orders. So, whether the Anunnaki generated the flood event with a “flood weapon” or knew of its impending arrival based on perturbations in the heavens, Enlil took credit for the cataclysmic destruction to augment his perceived power to punish [Genesis 6:5]. Those familiar with the Old Testament God of wrath and vengeance ought to find a familiar spirit in the deeds and attitude detailed in the Atrahasis account of Enlil and his genocidal crimes against humanity (Ellil in the OBV Atrahasis text.)
Enki, in anticipation of either a planned or accidental massive flood event, out of concern for his son Atrahasis, decides to modify an oath he was asked to swear to the Anunnaki Council, to not tell the humans of the impending watery disaster. Instead of warning Atrahasis directly, Enki directs his speech to the wall of the reed hut where his son is taking refuge. Atrahasis is told to build a boat: