4. Then he measured another 500 metres, and the water came up to my knees. Another 500 metres further down, the water was up to my waist.
5. He measured 500 metres more, and there the stream was so deep I could not wade through it. It was too deep to cross except by swimming.
6. He said to me, “Mortal man, note all this carefully.”Then the man took me back to the bank of the river,