¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,^(A) on the seventeenth day of the second month^(B)—on that day all the springs of the great deep^(C) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens^(D) were opened.

² The officer on whose arm the king was leaning^(A) said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates^(B) of the heavens, could this happen?”

“You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat^(C) any of it!”

¹⁹ The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates^(A) of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”