28. The wild cow and her young, the wild calf; the ewe and her young, the lamb of the fold; 29. Gardens and forests; 30. The wild goat, the mountain goat, (who) cares for himself (?). 31. The lord Marduk filled a terrace by the seaside, 32. ............ a marsh, reeds he set, 33. .................. he caused to exist. 34. [Reeds he creat]ed; trees he created; 35. In their ........... in their place he made; 36. [Bricks he laid, a founda]tion he constructed; 37. [Houses he made], a city he built; 38. [A city he built, a throne] he established; 39. [Nuppur he constructed], Ekur he built; 40. [Erech he constructed], Eanna he built. (At this point the tablet is broken. When it again becomes legible, it is in the midst of an incantation.) =2. Comparison with Genesis 2.= This account of the creation has sometimes been compared with Genesis 2:4, ff., which describes a time when there was no grass or vegetation on the earth, and then goes on to describe the creation of man and animals, speaking of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. In this account of the creation it is stated (line 21) that the goddess Aruru with Marduk created mankind. In another Babylonian poem, the Gilgamesh epic, which contains the Babylonian story of the flood, there is an account of the creation of man which accords much more closely with Gen. 2:7 than that which we are considering. It runs: The goddess Aruru, when she heard this, A man like Anu she formed in her heart. Aruru washed her hands; Clay she pinched off and spat upon it; Eabani, a hero she created, An exalted offspring, with the might of Ninib. Here is clearly a tradition, similar to Genesis, that God formed man from the dust of the ground. The allusion to Aruru indicates that this formed a part of the early Babylonian tradition. There is considerable evidence that in an earlier form of the Babylonian account Marduk had no place. He was introduced into it later by the priests of Babylon. Aruru was in that earlier form the creator of man, and probably was said to have formed him from clay, as in the Gilgamesh epic.