32. For your voice has surely been heard before the Most High: for the Mighty has seen your righteous dealing, he has seen aforetime also your chastity, which you have had ever since your youth.
33. And therefore has he sent me to show you all these things, and to say to you, Be of good comfort, and fear not.
34. And be not hasty in regard of the former times, to think vain things, that you may not hasten in the latter times.
35. And it came to pass after this, that I wept again, and fasted seven days in like manner, that I might fulfil the three weeks which he told me.
36. And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the Most High.
37. For my spirit was greatly set on fire, and my soul was in distress.
38. And I said, O Lord, of a truth you spoke at the beginning of the creation, upon the first day, and said thus; Let heaven and earth be made; and your word perfected the work.
39. And then was the spirit hovering, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man’s voice was not yet.
40. Then command you a ray of light to be brought forth of your treasures, that then your works might appear.
41. Upon the second day again you made the spirit of the firmament and commanded it to part asunder, and to make a division between the waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath.
42. Upon the third day you did command that the waters should be gathered together in the seventh part of the earth: six parts did you dry up, and keep them, to the intent that of these some being both planted and tilled might serve before you.
43. For as soom as your word went forth the work was done.