And all the lung-adhesions (sirkh-an) of the poison of death, are her legs, and about them it is stated: (Prov. 5:5) Her feet descend unto death... And there are 18∞ḥaiy lung-adhesions, about them it is written: (Gen. 8:21)... and I will not again strike all life∞ḥaiy (=18), as I have done. This is said to those who pray with the 18 blessings of prayer.

[And who causes the waters of the flood to overwhelm? Whoever pours the ‘water’ of seed of the covenant of circumcision, into a menstruant, a maidservant, a gentile, a whore]