Ya`akov said to him, *My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
It happened at the seventh time, that he said, *Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea.* He said, Go up, tell Ach'av, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you.
Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beit-Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us.*