V. 1. A man on his deathbed commanded his son to cast bread upon the waters. He did it daily and one fish caught it regularly and grew very big and persecuted the other fishes. They complained to their king Leviathan, who called him and asked him how he had grown so large.
The fish told him by the loaf a man was casting upon the water daily. Leviathan ordered him to bring that man and when he heard that the man was fulfilling a command of his father, the king spat in his mouth three times. The man then understood the language of birds and beasts as well as seventy languages. The fish then carried him back to dry land.
Tired from having been inside the fish he lay down to sleep. Two birds saw him and the younger said that it would pick out his eyes in spite of the warning of its mother. The man caught the bird. The mother bird promised the man treasure hidden by Solomon and carried him thither after which he let the young one free.