1 The holy house, the dwelling of the angels in the holy place, had not yet been made.

2 No reed had sprung up, no tree had been made.

3 No brick had been laid, no structure of brick had been erected.

4 No house had been made, no city had been built.

5 No city had been made, no creature had been constituted.

6 The city of the Mighty had not been made, its temple had not been built.

7 Erech had not been made, its house had not been built.

8 The Deep had not been made, Eridu had not been built.

9 Of the holy house, the dwelling of the angels, the dwelling-place had not been made.

10 All the lands were sea.

11 At the time that the mid-most sea was shaped like a trough,

12 At that time Eridu was made, and its house was built,

13 The house where, in the midst of the Deep, the servants of God the Pure dwell.

14 Babylon was made, its house was completed.

15 God created the angels at one time.

16 They proclaimed supreme the holy city, the dwelling of their heart's happiness.

17 God laid a rush mat upon the face of the waters,

18 He mixed up earth and moulded it upon the rush mat,

19 That there might be a place where His creatures should dwell.

20 He fashioned man.

21 God, the Creator, created the seed of mankind.

22 He created the beasts of the field and all the living things in the field.

23 He created the river Tigris and the river Euphrates, and He set them in their places,

24 He proclaimed their names rightly.

25 He created grass, the vegetation of the marsh, seed and shrub;

26 He created the green plants of the plain,

27 Lands, marshes, swamps,

28 The wild cow and the calf she carried, the wild calf, the sheep and the young she carried, the lamb of the fold,

29 Plantations and shrub land,

30 The he-goat and the mountain goat ...

31 The Lord piled up a dam in the region of the sea; He reclaimed land.

32 He ... a swamp, He founded a marsh.

33 ... He made to be

34 Reeds He created, trees He created,

35 ... in place He created

36 He laid bricks, He built a brick-work,

37 He constructed houses, He formed cities.

38 He constructed cities, creatures He set therein.

39 Nippur He made, its house He built.

40 Erech He made, its house He built.