The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh / The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge

[Uta-Napishtim's answer to Ea.]

32. "I understood and I said unto Ea, my lord:

33. [I comprehend] my lord, that which thou hast ordered,

34. I will regard it with great reverence, and will perform it.

35. But what shall I say to the town, to the multitude, and to the elders?"