and built your home on the waters above. You use the clouds as your chariot and ride on the wings of the wind.

From the sky you send rain on the hills, and the earth is filled with your blessings.

And so the whole universe was completed.

The LORD made the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into daylight and day into night. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. His name is the LORD.

When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,

On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.

A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,

The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.

It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;

I am the LORD; why don't you fear me? Why don't you tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, a permanent boundary that it cannot cross. The sea may toss, but it cannot go beyond it; the waves may roar, but they cannot break through.

God is the one who made the mountains and created the winds. He makes his thoughts known to people; he changes day into night. He walks on the heights of the earth. This is his name: the LORD God Almighty!

God said, "I am who I am. You must tell them: 'The one who is called I AM has sent me to you.'

Tell the Israelites that I, the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have sent you to them. This is my name forever; this is what all future generations are to call me.