from amnesia. The word means “to take into account, to act on one’s awareness.” As another check on interpreters’ typically androcentric perspective, the change in God’s action remarkably arose from his concern for the human administrator (Noah) and the community that he administered, all the creatures on the ark. God had commissioned the vice-regent to construct the ark so that he might protect (šāmar) and “serve” (ʿābad) the interests of the creatures (cf. 2:15). Taking into account this odd assemblage