They said to him: ‘You are not telling us anything [Var. a thing]. What is your father?’
He said to them: ‘My father, he is one great fish, for when he is thirsty, he opens his mouth, and swallows the waters of the sea, and for seventy [Var. seven] years, the sea does not return to its full force.iiiBT Baba Batra 75a And the mystery of the matter: (Job 40:23)... it is confident, for it draws into its mouth the Jordan. And he has swallowed so much of the sea – and you, you have not drawn from it except one pitcher (kad, =24), which are the 24 books of the TaNaKh Torah – how is it you have not heard of him?’