He said to them: ‘I am he, son of one fish (nuna) that swims in the great sea, and who swallowed all the other fish in the sea, and then took them out alive, and sometimes he emerges on dry land, in order to fulfil: (Gen. 48:16) And they shall proliferate (yiDGu) in the midst of the land.’ They were astonished.
They said to him: ‘Since it is not your desire to reveal to us who you are, and whose son you are, then tell us what is [Var. how is] the place of your abode?’
He said to them: ‘The place of my abode, is one tower that hovers in the air.’ They were astonished.