44. Suddenly, fruit blossomed in great abundance in an infinite variety of flavors, and flowers with matchless color and scents of unspeakable fragrance. These things were done on the third day.
45. “On the fourth day you commanded the sun’s splendor to be made, the moon’s light, and the arrangement of the stars.
46. You commanded them to serve the human being who was about to be formed.
47. “On the fifth day you commanded the seventh part where the water was gathered to produce animals, birds, and fish.
48. The silent and lifeless water, as it was commanded, brought forth animals so that peoples might recount your wonders.
49. You kept two living creatures in reserve; one you named Behemoth, and the second you named Leviathan.
50. You separated them from each other, for the seventh part where the water was gathered couldn’t contain them.
51. You gave Behemoth one part of the land that had been dried on the third day, where there are a thousand mountains so that he might live there.
52. To Leviathan, however, you gave the watery seventh part. You kept them to be eaten by whomever you wish, and whenever you wish.
53. “On the sixth day you commanded the earth that it create before you cattle, beasts, and reptiles,
54. and over these you set Adam, the leader over all the things you had made. From him we all, the people you have chosen, have been brought forth.
55. "I have said all these things before you, Lord, because you have said that you created the oldest age for our sake.
56. You have said that the other nations born of Adam are nothing, that they are like spit, and you have compared their abundance to a drop from a pitcher.