He said: "O Hubaba, the knowledge of priority has become long for you, and the attainment of precedence has become far from you the Divinity, and how could you attain such perception, and how do you ask about an anticipated and predestined being that was preceded by the formation of the formation of the span of spans, until it is established among the worlds that it is eternal?

And [as for] what has passed in the bygone of the bygone of the perpetual age, the revolving existence, and the oppressive cycles, We shall point out to you from that which is heavy for you to count and difficult for you to attain of what has passed from the span of your world—which is the limit of your end, and upon it is the extent of your journey—unto a hundred thousand thousand Koor [Great Cycle] within a hundred thousand thousand Koor; and every Koor of them is a hundred thousand thousand Dawr [Cycle]; and every Dawr of them is a hundred thousand thousand Jawr [Period]; and every Jawr of them is a hundred thousand thousand years; and every year of them is a thousand thousand months; and every month of them is a thousand thousand days; and every day of them is fifty thousand years of these human years of yours. Count, O Hubaba, the total of all this and complete it as a calculation; if you arrive at it truthfully, then bring it to Me so that I may make known to you what was before the "before" of it, up to seven "befores,"