How God established the Water, and surrounded it with Light, and established upon it Seven Islands
1 And I ordered that there should be a separation between the light and the darkness, and I said: ‘Let strong from the invisible, A. SS AS ome there be a thick substance, and it was sol.
2 And I spread this out and there was water, and I spread it over the darkness, below the light.
3 And thus I made firm the waters, that is, the depths, and I surrounded the waters with light, and I created seven circles and I fashioned them like crystal, moist and dry, that is to say, like glass and ice, and as for the waters, and also the other elements, I showed each of them their paths, (viz.) to the seven stars, each of them in their heaven, how they should go; and I saw that it was good.
4 And I separated between the light and the darkness; that is to say, between the waters here and there. And I said to the light: ‘Let it be day’; and to the darkness, ‘Let it be night.’ And the evening and the morning were the first day +.