3 covered all the earth. And it came to pass after these things that cloud began to pour (2BA) 4 upon the earth the waters that were in it. And I saw that there was not one and the same likeness (2BA) 5 in the waters which descended from it. For in the first beginning they were black and many for a time, and afterwards I saw that the waters became bright, but they were not many, and after these things again I saw black (waters), and after these things again bright, and again (2BA)
2 Baruch 53:3–5
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