<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;The outcry against<n id="1" /> Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

He had<n id="1" /> so many sheep<n id="2" /> and cattle<n id="3" /> and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous<n id="4" /> of him.

<p class="bodytext">But the <sc>Lordsc> saw<n id="1" /> that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination<n id="2" /> of the thoughts<n id="3" /> of their minds<n id="4" /> was only evil<n id="5" /> all the time.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">In the six hundredth year of Noah&#8217;s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month &#8211; on that day all the fountains of the great deep<n id="1" /> burst open and the floodgates of the heavens<n id="2" /> were opened.