Although this tablet is much broken, so that we have not the whole of the story, it is clear from the parts that we have that in this version preserved at Nippur the story was much shorter than in the form translated in Chapter VI, which was preserved in the library of Ashurbanipal. It was also combined with a briefer account of the creation than that translated in Chapter I from Ashurbanipal’s library. Of this Nippurian version of the creation story we have in this tablet only the small fragments preserved in Columns I and II. It is, however, probable that the Nippurian version of the creation was in its main features similar to that preserved in the library at Nineveh, only more brief. If this be so, the conquest of the dragon Tiâmat is here attributed to Enlil of Nippur, as in the other version it is attributed to Marduk of Babylon, and as in Psa. 74:13, 14, it is attributed to Jehovah. This older account from Nippur agrees in one respect more nearly with the Biblical account than the one from the library at Nineveh does, for it represents Ziugiddu as a very pious man, who was apparently saved from destruction on account of his piety, and in blessing him God removed the curse as Jehovah did in Gen. 8:21. CHAPTER VIII AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF A CITY AND THE BEGINNING OF AGRICULTURE, FROM A TABLET WRITTEN AT NIPPUR BEFORE 2000 B. C. TRANSLATION. COMPARISON WITH BIBLICAL MATERIAL. This tablet begins with a description of a place the name of which is not identified; it is, accordingly, indicated in the translation by X. Possibly it was Eridu; possibly Dilmun. =1. Translation.= _Column I_[407] 1. They that are lofty, they that are lofty are ye, 2. O X, pure; 3. They that are holy, they that are lofty are ye. 4. O X, pure, 5. X is pure, X is bright, 6. X is splendid, X is resplendent. 7. Alone were they in X; they lay down. 8. Where Enki and his consort lay, 9. That place is splendid, that place is pure. 10. Alone [in X they lay down]. 11. Where Enki with Ninella lay down, 12. That place is splendid, [that place is pure]. 13. In X the raven cried not, 14. The kite gave not his kite-call, 15. The deadly lion destroyed not, 16. The wolf a lamb seized not, 17. The dog the weak kid worried not, 18. The ewes the food-grain destroyed not, 19. Offspring increased not .......... 20. The birds of heaven their offspring ..... not; 21. The doves were not put to flight (?). 22. Of eye-disease, “it is eye-disease,” one said not; 23. Of headache, “it is headache,” one said not. 24. To a mother, “mother,” one said not, 25. To a father, “father,” one said not. 26. In the holy place a libation was poured not; in the city one drank not; 27. The river-man “cross it?” said not; 28. Fear one’s couch troubled not; 29. The musician “sing,” said not; 30. The prince of the city spoke not.