In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:And it is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatsoever he commandeth them Upon the face of the habitable world,Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for lovingkindness, that he cause it to come.