When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
He loads the clouds with moisture, and they flash with his lightning.The clouds churn about at his direction. They do whatever he commands throughout the earth.He makes these things happen either to punish people or to show his unfailing love.