^2 (A)The fountains of the deep and ^(B)the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the ^(A)fountains of the great deep burst forth, and ^(B)the windows of the heavens were opened.

²⁶ And he said to them, “Why are you ^(A)afraid, ^(B)O you of little faith?” Then he rose and ^(C)rebuked the winds and the sea, and ^(D)there was a great calm. ²⁷ And the men ^(E)marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even ^(F)winds and sea obey him?”

⁹ For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant,^[a] ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”