“When He set the clouds above, When He made the fountains of the deep strong,
And Elohim made the expanse, and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it came to be so.
And Elohim said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it came to be so.
In the six hundredth year of Noaḥ’s life, in the second new moon, the seventeenth day of the moon, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was withheld.
binding up waters in His thick clouds, and the cloud is not torn under them,
Have you come to the sources of the sea? Or have you walked about in the recesses of the deep?
At Your rebuke they flee; At the voice of Your thunder they hurry away.
Maker of the heavens and earth, The sea and all that is in them, Who is guarding truth forever,
יהוה founded the earth by wisdom; He established the heavens by understanding;
“When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
“When He gave to the sea its law, So that the waters would not transgress His mouth, When He inscribed the foundations of the earth,
And He said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little belief?” Then, having risen, He rebuked the winds and the sea. And there was a great calm.