When He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed,

When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

"He wraps up the waters in His clouds, And the cloud does not burst under them.

He sends forth springs in the valleys; They flow between the mountains;

Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens!

If the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it lies.

Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.

Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, [and] fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so.

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.

Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so.

The men were amazed, and said, "What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?"