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 floodgates of the heavens were opened.And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.