So the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

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 fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.