"Above the Apsû | Dwelling place that you occupy; | As a copy of the Ešarra | Which I myself built for you, | But further down: in a place | Of which I have consolidated the base, | I want to build myself a Temple | Which will be my favorite home, | In the midst of which | I will plant my Sanctuary | And I will assign my apartments, | To establish my kingdom there. | When you leave the Apsû, | To go up to the Assembly, | That will be your stop, | To receive you all together; | When you leave Heaven | To go down to the [Assembly]; | That will be your stop, | To welcome you all together! | [I] will give it the name "Babylon: | The Temple of the Great Gods".

"That nothing has changed | Of what I will have. | And that every order uttered by my lips | May it remain irreversible and irrevocable!

"I want to condense some blood, | Building a framework | And thus create a human prototype, | Who will be called "Man"! | This Prototype, this Man, | I want to create it | So that the labors of the gods may be imposed on him | And let them have free time."