2 Esdras 6:42-44

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴² ‘On the third day you commanded the waters to be gathered together in a seventh part of the earth; six parts you dried up and kept so that some of them might be planted and cultivated and be of service before you. ⁴³ For your word went forth, and at once the work was done. ⁴⁴ Immediately fruit came forth in endless abundance and of varied appeal to the taste, and flowers of inimitable colour, and odours of inexpressible fragrance. These were made on the third day.