⁷ Then each man said to the other, “Come, let us ^[a](A)have the lots fall so we may know on whose account this calamitous evil has struck us.” So they ^[b]had the lots fall, and the ^(B)lot fell on Jonah. ⁸ Then they said to him, “^(C)Tell us, now! On whose account has this calamitous evil struck us? What is your ^(D)occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?” ⁹ And he said to them, “I am a ^(E)Hebrew, and I ^(F)fear Yahweh, the ^(G)God of heaven, who ^(H)made the sea and the dry land.”