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CHAPTER 9 “WATER,” “CLOUDS,” “FOG,” AND OTHER WATER-RELATED WORDS
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enough raindrops to cause precipitation. Some water is absorbed by plants and
returned directly to the atmosphere as vapor.
The natural water cycle has been known for quite some time. Yet, taking into
account that biblical texts relate to the water cycle, and that they are at least two
and a half thousand years old, this may be an interesting coincidence. There are
three places where the Bible relates to the hydrological cycle:

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• “But there went up a mist [ed, meaning, in modern Hebrew, “vapor”
or “mist”] from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground”
(Gen. 2:6).
• “He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams;
the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on
mankind. Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he
thunders from his pavilion?” (Job 36:27–29).
• “who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of
the land–—the Lord is his name” (Amos 5:8).

Job is estimated to have lived 950 BC or earlier, and the prophet Amos is esti-
mated to have lived around 755 BC.
The following section is taken from the Web site:
http://www.pytlik.com/observe/deliverus/signature-02.html:

“This reference to evaporation is startling in its clarity and detail, and cen-
turies ahead of its time. God revealed the existence of a hydrological cycle—
water evaporating from the sea into the form of clouds and being dropped
onto land as rain—about 3500 years before these concepts became known to
scientific man. In fact, even after people understood the hydrological cycle,

they believed that rain, being fresh water, came from rivers and lakes. The
discovery that rain comes mostly from seawater as described in the Bible is

fairly recent. In the 1600’s it was finally realized that water could evaporate
as a gaseous substance. In 1676, Pierre Perrault and Edme Marriotte made a
scientific breakthrough by describing the hydrologic cycle in detail.”

Find further details therein.