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.
44. For immediately there came forth great and innumerable fruit, and manifold pleasures for the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of most exquisite smell: and this was done the third day.
45. Upon the fourth day you commanded that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in their order:
46. and gave them a charge to do service to man, that was to be made.
47. Upon the fifth day you said to the seventh part, where the water was gathered together, that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass,
48. that the dumb water and without life brought forth living things as it was bidden, that the peoples might therefore praise your wondrous works.
49. Then did you preserve two living creatures, the one you calledst Behemoth, and the other you calledst Leviathan:
50. and you did separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.
51. To Behemoth you gave one part, which was dried up on the third day, that he should dwell in the same, wherein are a thousand hills:
52. but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, namely, the moist; and you have kept them to be devoured of whom you will, and when.
53. But upon the sixth day you gave commandment to the earth, that it should bring forth before you cattle, beasts, and creeping things:
54. and over these Adam, whom you ordain lord over all the works that you have made: of him come we all, the people whom you have chosen.
55. All this have I spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that for our sakes you made this world.
56. As for the other nations, which also come of Adam, you have said that they are nothing, and are like to spittle: and you have likened the abundance of them to a drop that falls from a vessel.
57. And now, O Lord, behold these nations, which are reputed as nothing, be lords over us, and devour us.
58. But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only begotten, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands.
59. If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess for an inheritance our world? How long shall this endure?