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5. The Quiché and the Hebrew both represent the 
deity as speaking. Not so the Chaldean. Its gods are 
silent. 
6. Both Hebrew and Quiché place next in order the 
rising of the land from beneath the waters. Chaldean 
tablets, so far as known, say nothing about the land 
rising out of the water. ; 
7. The Quiché story places next in order vegetation ; 
and so does the Hebrew. The Chaldean, so far as we 
have it, says nothing of the production of vegetation. 
After this there is a variation in the order. Moses places 
the fiat in reference to the lights, after the appearance 
of vegetation, and before the appearance of man; but 
the Quiché account represents man as made before the 
sun. The Chaldean is silent. 
8. Animals are made next after trees and‘plants. 
9. Both Quiché and Hebrew place the creation of man 
after the appearance of certain vegetation and of certain 
animals. The Chaldean is silent. 
10. Lastly, both Quiché and Hebrew agree that God 
made woman after he had made man. 
11. That she was made while man was ina profound 
sleep. 
12. And that there was one wife for one man. 
Here are twelve particulars in reference to which the 
Hebrew and the Quiché accounts coincide. 
The agreement between the Bible account of creation, 
and the Chaldean tablets so far as they have yet been 
found, is contined to the following few and unimportant 
particulars : 
1. Both near the opening of the story speak of 
‘* waters.’?? . 
2. Both Hebrew and Chaldean speak of sun and moon, 
1 See Lenormant’s version in his Beginnings of History, page 491. Compare with Genesis 
the next two tablets (pp. 491, 492, 493), and note the absence of agreement. 
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