²⁸ Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

²⁰ By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹¹ The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

¹² And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

¹³ For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.