Today we still have records of some of these creation accounts, such as the well-known Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh and Enuma Elish, stories describing the creation of the earth (the land) and heavens (the sky) by other gods. These ancient peoples also had a story about a flood, similar in some ways to what we find in the book of Genesis chapters 7–8. First, we need to know that the preexistence of these stories does not mean Moses simply copied and adapted these other stories. God used what the people were familiar with to communicate the true creation story.
