¹⁷ Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly [1] that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

¹⁷ Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;

¹⁷ Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't - not a drop for three and a half years.