In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
For I am also a human under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”