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SONS OF ELOHIM TAKE DAUGHTERS OF HUMANITY
And so be it, humanity begins to abound by myriads on the face of the soil; and they birth daughters: 2 and the sons of Elohim see that the daughters of humanity are goodly; and they take women of all they choose.
THE SHORTENED LIFE SPAN
3 And Yah Veh says, My spirit pleads not eternally with humanity, for in his erring inadvertently, he is flesh: yet so be his days, a hundred and twenty years.
THE NEPHILIM
4 There are Nephilim in the earth in those days; and also thus: when the sons of Elohim come in to the daughters of humanity and they birth to them, mighty ones; originally men of name: 5 and Yah Veh sees that the evil of humanity is great in the earth and that every imagination of the fabrications of his heart is only evil every day. 6 And Yah Veh sighs that he worked humanity on the earth and it contorts at his heart: 7 and Yah Veh says, I wipe out humanity whom I have created from the face of the soil - from human to animal and the creeper and the flyers of the heavens; for I sigh that I worked them. 8 - but Noach found charism in the eyes of Yah Veh.
GENEALOGY OF NOACH
9 These are the generations of Noach: Noach is a just man and integrious in his generations; and Noach walks with Elohim: 10 and Noach births three sons, Shem, Ham and Yepheth. 11 And the earth is ruined at the face of Elohim and the earth is filled with violence: 12 and Elohim sees the earth and behold, it is ruined; for all flesh on the earth had ruined his way.
THE FLOOD
13 And Elohim says to Noach, The end of all flesh comes at my face; for the earth is filled with violence at their face; and behold, I ruin them with the earth. 14 Work an ark of gopher timber; work nests in the ark and pitch the housing in and out with pitch: 15 and work it thus: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; the width, fifty cubits; and the height, thirty cubits. 16 Work a window to the ark and in a cubit finish it above; and set the portal of the ark in the side; work it with nether, second and third. 17 And behold, I, even I, bring a flood of waters on the earth, to ruin all flesh, wherein is the spirit of life, from under the heavens; so that all in the earth expires. 18 But with you I raise my covenant; and you come into the ark - you and your sons and your woman and the women of your sons with you. 19 And of every live being of all flesh, bring two of each into the ark to preserve alive with you - being male and female: 20 of flyers in species and of animals in species, of every creeper of the soil in species, two of each come to you, to live: 21 and take of all food that is eaten and gather it to yourselves - being for food for you and for them. 22 Thus Noach works: according to all Elohim misvahs him, thus he works. 7 1 And Yah Veh says to Noach, Come, you and all your house, into the ark; for I see you are just at my face in this generation. 2 Of every pure animal take to you seven by seven, the man and his woman: and of animals that are not pure by two, the man and his woman. 3 Of flyers also of the heavens seven by seven, the male and the female; so that the seed lives on the face of all the earth. 4 For again seven days and I rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every risen being whom I worked I wipe out from the face of the earth. 5 And Noach works according to all Yah Veh misvahs him. 6 And Noach is a son of six hundred years when the flood of waters becomes on the earth. 7 And Noach goes into the ark with his sons and his woman and with the women of his sons at the face of the waters of the flood: 8 of animals pure, and of animals not pure; and of flyers and of all creeping on the soil, 9 there go in two and two to Noach into the ark - the male and the female, as Elohim misvahed Noach. 10 And so be it, after seven days, the waters of the flood become on the earth. 11 In the year - the six hundredth year of the life of Noach, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, this day all the fountains of the great abyss split and the windows of the heavens open. 12 And the downpour becomes on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the same day Noach and Shem and Ham and Yepheth the sons of Noach and the woman of Noach and the three women of his sons with them, enter into the ark 14 - they and every live being in species and all the animals in species and every creeper creeping on the earth in species and every flyer in species - every bird of every wing: 15 and they go in to Noach into the ark - two by two of all flesh wherein is the spirit of life. 16 And going in, they go in male and female of all flesh, as Elohim misvahed him: and Yah Veh shuts him in. 17 And so be the flood, forty days on the earth; and the waters abound and bear the ark and lift it above the earth: 18 and the waters prevail mightily and abound mightily on the earth; and the ark goes on the face of the waters: 19 and the waters prevail mightily - mightily mighty on the earth; and cover all the high mountains under the whole heavens: 20 fifteen cubits upward the waters prevail mightily; and cover the mountains. 21 And all flesh creeping on the earth expires - both of flyers and of animals and of live beings and of every teemer teeming on the earth and every human: 22 all in whose nostrils is the breath of the spirit of life, of all in the parched area, die. 23 And every risen being on the face of the soil is wiped out - from human and animals and the creepers and the flyers of the heavens; are wiped out from the earth: and only Noach and those with him in the ark survive: 24 and the waters prevail mightily on the earth a hundred and fifty days. 8 1 And Elohim remembers Noach and every live being and all the animals with him in the ark: and Elohim passes a wind over the earth and the waters asswage; 2 and the fountains of the abyss \ Genesis 7:p and the windows of the heavens shut and the downpour from the heavens restrains; 3 and the waters return from off the earth - going and returning; and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters abate. 4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rests on the mountains of Ararat: 5 and the waters abate going and returning until the tenth month: in the tenth, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appear. 6 And so be it, at the end of forty days, Noach opens the window of the ark he worked: 7 and he sends forth the raven, which goes - going and returning, until the waters dry from the earth: 8 and he sends a dove from him to see if the waters abated from the face of the soil; 9 but the dove finds no rest for the sole of her foot and she returns to him in the ark; for the waters are on the face of the whole earth: then he spreads his hand and takes her and pulls her in to him into the ark. 10 And he waits yet another seven days; and again he sends the dove from the ark; 11 and the dove comes in to him in the evening time; and behold, in her mouth, a plucked olive leaf: so Noach knows the waters abate from off the earth. 12 And he waits yet another seven days; and sends the dove; who returns not again to him any more. 13 And so be it, in the six hundredth and first year, in the first, the first of the month, the waters parch from the earth: and Noach turns aside the covering of the ark and sees, and behold, the face of the soil is parched. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth dries: 15 and Elohim words to Noach, saying, 16 Go from the ark, you and your woman, with your sons and the women of your sons: 17 bring every live being with you - of all flesh, flyers and of animals and of every creeper creeping on the earth; to teem in the earth and bear fruit and abound on the earth. 18 And Noach goes with his sons, his woman and the women of his sons, 19 every live being, every creeper and every flyer and all creeping on the earth, by families, go from the ark.
THE SACRIFICE ALTAR OF NOACH
20 And Noach builds a sacrifice altar to Yah Veh; and takes of every pure animal and of every pure flyer and holocausts holocausts on the sacrifice altar. 21 And Yah Veh scents a sweet scent; and Yah Veh says in his heart, I never again abase the soil for sake of humanity; for the imagination of the heart of humanity is evil from his youth; I never again smite every live being as I worked; 22 as all the days of the earth remain - seed and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shabbathize not. 9 1
THE BOW COVENANT OF ELOHIM
And Elohim blesses Noach and his sons and says to them, Bear fruit and abound and fill the earth. 2 And the awesomeness of you and the terror of you becomes on every live being of the earth and on every flyer of the heavens, on all who creep on the soil and on all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they are given. 3 Every living creeper is for you; even as the green herb, I give you all. 4 Only flesh with the soul, which is the blood, eat not. 5 And surely I require the blood of your souls; at the hand of every live being I require and at the hand of humanity; at the hand of the brother of every man I require the soul of humanity. 6 Whoever pours human blood, thus be his blood poured by humanity: for he worked humanity in the image of Elohim. 7 And you, bear fruit and abound; teem in the earth and abound. 8 And Elohim says to Noach and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I raise my covenant with you and with your seed after you; 10 and with every living soul with you - of the flyers, of the animals and of every live being of the earth with you; from all who go from the ark to every live being of the earth: 11 and I raise my covenant with you; neither is all flesh cut off any more by the waters of a flood; nor is there any more a flood to ruin the earth. 12 And Elohim says, This is the sign of the covenant I set between me and between you and every living soul with you for eternal generations: 13 I give my bow in the cloud - a sign of a covenant between me and between the earth: 14 and so be it, when I overcloud a cloud over the earth, that the bow be seen in the cloud: 15 and I remember my covenant between me and between you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters never again become a flood to ruin all flesh. 16 And the bow becomes in the cloud; and I see it: to remember the eternal covenant between Elohim and between every living soul of all flesh on the earth. 17 And Elohim says to Noach, This is the sign of the covenant, I raise between me and between all flesh on the earth. 18 And the sons of Noach, going from the ark, are Shem and Ham and Yepheth: and Ham is the father of Kenaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noach: and they scatter throughout the whole earth.
THE INTOXICATION OF NOACH
20 And Noach begins to be a man of the soil and he plants a vineyard: 21 and he drinks of the wine and intoxicates; and he exposes himself midst his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Kenaan, sees the nakedness of his father and tells his two brothers outside: 23 and Shem and Yepheth take a cloth and set it on the shoulders of the two of them and go backward and cover the nakedness of their father; with their faces backward and they see not the nakedness of their father. 24 And Noach wakens from his wine and knows what his younger son worked to him: 25 and he says, Curse Kenaan; he becomes a servant of servants to his brethren. 26 And he says, Blessed be Yah Veh Elohim of Shem; and Kenaan becomes his servant. 27 Elohim enlarges Yepheth to tabernacle in the tents of Shem; and Kenaan becomes his servant. 28 And Noach lives after the flood three hundred years and fifty years: 29 and all the days of Noach - nine hundred years and fifty years: and he dies. 10 1
GENEALOGY OF THE SONS OF NOACH
And these are the generations of the sons of Noach: Shem, Ham and Yepheth: and they birth sons after the flood. 2 The sons of Yepheth: Gomer and Magog and Maday and Yavan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Yavan: Eli Shah and Tarshish, Kittiym and Dodanim. 5 By these were the isles of the goyim separated in their lands; each man by his tongue, by their families, in their goyim. 6 And the sons of Ham: Kush and Misraim and Put and Kenaan. 7 And the sons of Kush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtechah. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8 And Kush births Nimrod: he begins to be mighty in the earth. 9 He is a mighty hunter at the face of Yah Veh: thus it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter at the face of Yah Veh. 10 And the beginning of his sovereigndom is Babel and Erech and Akkad and Kalneh in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land Ashshur goes and builds Nineveh and the city Rechovoth and Kelach; 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Kelach - a great city. 13 And Misraim births Ludiym and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuchim 14 and Pathrsimm and Kasluhim - from whom came Peleshethiym and Kaphtorim. 15 And Kenaan births Sidon his firstborn firstbirthed and Heth, 16 and the Yebusiy and the Emoriy and the Girgashiy 17 and the Hivviy and the Arqiy and the Siniy 18 and the Arvadiy and the Semariy and the Hamathiy: and afterward the families of the Kenaaniy scatter. 19 And the border of the Kenaaniy is from Sidon, as you come to Gerar, to Azzah; as you go to Sedom and Amorah and Admah and Seboim, to Lesha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, in their goyim. 21 As to Shem, the father of all the sons of Heber, the brother of Yepheth the greater, he also births. 22 The sons of Shem: Elam and Ashshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. 23 And the sons of Aram: Us and Hul and Gether and Mash. 24 And Arpachshad births Shelach; and Shelach births Heber: 25 And Heber births two sons: the name of one, Peleg; for in his days the earth is divided; and the name of his brother, Yoqtan. 26 And Yoqtan births Almodad and Sheleph and Hasar Maveth and Yerach 27 and Hado Ram and Uzal and Diqlah 28 and Obal and Abi Mael and Sheba 29 and Ophir and Havilah and Yobab: all these are the sons of Yoqtan. 30 And their settlement is from Mesha, as you go to Sephar a mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, by their goyim. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noach, by their generations, in their goyim: and by these the goyim separate in the earth after the flood. 11 1
THE TOWER OF BABEL
And the whole earth is of one lip and of one word. 2 And so be it, as they pull stakes from the east, they find a valley in the land of Shinar and settle there. 3 And they say, man to friend, Give, we make brick and in burning, burn them; the brick is for stone and bitumin is for morter. 4 And they say, Give, we build us a city and a tower whose top is to the heavens; and we work us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth. 5 And Yah Veh descends to see the city and the tower the sons of humanity build: 6 and Yah Veh says, Behold, the people is one with one lip to all; and they begin to work this: and now naught is clipped from them, of which they intrigue to work. 7 Give, we descend and mix up their lip, that man not hear the lip of his friend. 8 And from there, Yah Veh scatters them abroad on the face of all the earth: and they cease to build the city. 9 So the name thereof is called Babel; because there Yah Veh mixes up the lip of all the earth: and from there Yah Veh scatters them abroad on the face of all the earth.
GENEALOGY OF SHEM
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem is a son of a hundred years, and births Arpachshad two years after the flood: 11 and after Shem births Arpachshad he lives five hundred years and births sons and daughters. 12 And Arpachshad lives thirty-five years and births Shelach: 13 and after Arpachshad births Shelach he lives four hundred years and three years and births sons and daughters. 14 And Shelach lives thirty years and births Heber: 15 and after Shelach births Heber he lives four hundred years and three years and births sons and daughters. 16 And Heber lives thirty-four years and births Peleg: 17 and after Heber births Peleg he lives four hundred years and thirty years and births sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lives thirty years and births Reu: 19 and after Peleg births Reu he lives two hundred years and nine years and births sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lives thirty-two years and births Serug: 21 and after Reu births Serug he lives two hundred years and seven years and births sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lives thirty years and births Nachor: 23 and after Serug births Nachor he lives two hundred years and births sons and daughters. 24 And Nachor lives twenty-nine years and births Terach: 25 and after Nachor births Terach he lives a hundred years and nineteen years and births sons and daughters. 26 And Terach lives seventy years and births Abram, Nachor and Haran. 27 And these are the generations of Terach: Terach births Abram, Nachor and Haran; and Haran births Lot: 28 and Haran dies at the face of his father Terach in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Kesediym. 29 And Abram and Nachor take women: the name of the woman of Abram, Saray; and the name of the woman of Nachor, Milchah daughter of Haran, father of Milchah and father of Yiskah. 30 And Saray is sterile; she has no child. 31 And Terach takes Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran the son of his son and Saray his daughter in law the woman of his son Abram; and they go with them from Ur of the Kesediym to go into the land of Kenaan; and they come to Haran and settle there. 32 And the days of Terach - two hundred years and five years: and Terach dies in Haran.
SONS OF ELOHIM TAKE DAUGHTERS OF HUMANITY
And so be it, humanity begins to abound by myriads on the face of the soil; and they birth daughters: 2 and the sons of Elohim see that the daughters of humanity are goodly; and they take women of all they choose.
THE SHORTENED LIFE SPAN
3 And Yah Veh says, My spirit pleads not eternally with humanity, for in his erring inadvertently, he is flesh: yet so be his days, a hundred and twenty years.
THE NEPHILIM
4 There are Nephilim in the earth in those days; and also thus: when the sons of Elohim come in to the daughters of humanity and they birth to them, mighty ones; originally men of name: 5 and Yah Veh sees that the evil of humanity is great in the earth and that every imagination of the fabrications of his heart is only evil every day. 6 And Yah Veh sighs that he worked humanity on the earth and it contorts at his heart: 7 and Yah Veh says, I wipe out humanity whom I have created from the face of the soil - from human to animal and the creeper and the flyers of the heavens; for I sigh that I worked them. 8 - but Noach found charism in the eyes of Yah Veh.
GENEALOGY OF NOACH
9 These are the generations of Noach: Noach is a just man and integrious in his generations; and Noach walks with Elohim: 10 and Noach births three sons, Shem, Ham and Yepheth. 11 And the earth is ruined at the face of Elohim and the earth is filled with violence: 12 and Elohim sees the earth and behold, it is ruined; for all flesh on the earth had ruined his way.
THE FLOOD
13 And Elohim says to Noach, The end of all flesh comes at my face; for the earth is filled with violence at their face; and behold, I ruin them with the earth. 14 Work an ark of gopher timber; work nests in the ark and pitch the housing in and out with pitch: 15 and work it thus: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; the width, fifty cubits; and the height, thirty cubits. 16 Work a window to the ark and in a cubit finish it above; and set the portal of the ark in the side; work it with nether, second and third. 17 And behold, I, even I, bring a flood of waters on the earth, to ruin all flesh, wherein is the spirit of life, from under the heavens; so that all in the earth expires. 18 But with you I raise my covenant; and you come into the ark - you and your sons and your woman and the women of your sons with you. 19 And of every live being of all flesh, bring two of each into the ark to preserve alive with you - being male and female: 20 of flyers in species and of animals in species, of every creeper of the soil in species, two of each come to you, to live: 21 and take of all food that is eaten and gather it to yourselves - being for food for you and for them. 22 Thus Noach works: according to all Elohim misvahs him, thus he works. 7 1 And Yah Veh says to Noach, Come, you and all your house, into the ark; for I see you are just at my face in this generation. 2 Of every pure animal take to you seven by seven, the man and his woman: and of animals that are not pure by two, the man and his woman. 3 Of flyers also of the heavens seven by seven, the male and the female; so that the seed lives on the face of all the earth. 4 For again seven days and I rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every risen being whom I worked I wipe out from the face of the earth. 5 And Noach works according to all Yah Veh misvahs him. 6 And Noach is a son of six hundred years when the flood of waters becomes on the earth. 7 And Noach goes into the ark with his sons and his woman and with the women of his sons at the face of the waters of the flood: 8 of animals pure, and of animals not pure; and of flyers and of all creeping on the soil, 9 there go in two and two to Noach into the ark - the male and the female, as Elohim misvahed Noach. 10 And so be it, after seven days, the waters of the flood become on the earth. 11 In the year - the six hundredth year of the life of Noach, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, this day all the fountains of the great abyss split and the windows of the heavens open. 12 And the downpour becomes on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the same day Noach and Shem and Ham and Yepheth the sons of Noach and the woman of Noach and the three women of his sons with them, enter into the ark 14 - they and every live being in species and all the animals in species and every creeper creeping on the earth in species and every flyer in species - every bird of every wing: 15 and they go in to Noach into the ark - two by two of all flesh wherein is the spirit of life. 16 And going in, they go in male and female of all flesh, as Elohim misvahed him: and Yah Veh shuts him in. 17 And so be the flood, forty days on the earth; and the waters abound and bear the ark and lift it above the earth: 18 and the waters prevail mightily and abound mightily on the earth; and the ark goes on the face of the waters: 19 and the waters prevail mightily - mightily mighty on the earth; and cover all the high mountains under the whole heavens: 20 fifteen cubits upward the waters prevail mightily; and cover the mountains. 21 And all flesh creeping on the earth expires - both of flyers and of animals and of live beings and of every teemer teeming on the earth and every human: 22 all in whose nostrils is the breath of the spirit of life, of all in the parched area, die. 23 And every risen being on the face of the soil is wiped out - from human and animals and the creepers and the flyers of the heavens; are wiped out from the earth: and only Noach and those with him in the ark survive: 24 and the waters prevail mightily on the earth a hundred and fifty days. 8 1 And Elohim remembers Noach and every live being and all the animals with him in the ark: and Elohim passes a wind over the earth and the waters asswage; 2 and the fountains of the abyss \ Genesis 7:p and the windows of the heavens shut and the downpour from the heavens restrains; 3 and the waters return from off the earth - going and returning; and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters abate. 4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rests on the mountains of Ararat: 5 and the waters abate going and returning until the tenth month: in the tenth, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appear. 6 And so be it, at the end of forty days, Noach opens the window of the ark he worked: 7 and he sends forth the raven, which goes - going and returning, until the waters dry from the earth: 8 and he sends a dove from him to see if the waters abated from the face of the soil; 9 but the dove finds no rest for the sole of her foot and she returns to him in the ark; for the waters are on the face of the whole earth: then he spreads his hand and takes her and pulls her in to him into the ark. 10 And he waits yet another seven days; and again he sends the dove from the ark; 11 and the dove comes in to him in the evening time; and behold, in her mouth, a plucked olive leaf: so Noach knows the waters abate from off the earth. 12 And he waits yet another seven days; and sends the dove; who returns not again to him any more. 13 And so be it, in the six hundredth and first year, in the first, the first of the month, the waters parch from the earth: and Noach turns aside the covering of the ark and sees, and behold, the face of the soil is parched. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth dries: 15 and Elohim words to Noach, saying, 16 Go from the ark, you and your woman, with your sons and the women of your sons: 17 bring every live being with you - of all flesh, flyers and of animals and of every creeper creeping on the earth; to teem in the earth and bear fruit and abound on the earth. 18 And Noach goes with his sons, his woman and the women of his sons, 19 every live being, every creeper and every flyer and all creeping on the earth, by families, go from the ark.
THE SACRIFICE ALTAR OF NOACH
20 And Noach builds a sacrifice altar to Yah Veh; and takes of every pure animal and of every pure flyer and holocausts holocausts on the sacrifice altar. 21 And Yah Veh scents a sweet scent; and Yah Veh says in his heart, I never again abase the soil for sake of humanity; for the imagination of the heart of humanity is evil from his youth; I never again smite every live being as I worked; 22 as all the days of the earth remain - seed and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shabbathize not. 9 1
THE BOW COVENANT OF ELOHIM
And Elohim blesses Noach and his sons and says to them, Bear fruit and abound and fill the earth. 2 And the awesomeness of you and the terror of you becomes on every live being of the earth and on every flyer of the heavens, on all who creep on the soil and on all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they are given. 3 Every living creeper is for you; even as the green herb, I give you all. 4 Only flesh with the soul, which is the blood, eat not. 5 And surely I require the blood of your souls; at the hand of every live being I require and at the hand of humanity; at the hand of the brother of every man I require the soul of humanity. 6 Whoever pours human blood, thus be his blood poured by humanity: for he worked humanity in the image of Elohim. 7 And you, bear fruit and abound; teem in the earth and abound. 8 And Elohim says to Noach and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I raise my covenant with you and with your seed after you; 10 and with every living soul with you - of the flyers, of the animals and of every live being of the earth with you; from all who go from the ark to every live being of the earth: 11 and I raise my covenant with you; neither is all flesh cut off any more by the waters of a flood; nor is there any more a flood to ruin the earth. 12 And Elohim says, This is the sign of the covenant I set between me and between you and every living soul with you for eternal generations: 13 I give my bow in the cloud - a sign of a covenant between me and between the earth: 14 and so be it, when I overcloud a cloud over the earth, that the bow be seen in the cloud: 15 and I remember my covenant between me and between you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters never again become a flood to ruin all flesh. 16 And the bow becomes in the cloud; and I see it: to remember the eternal covenant between Elohim and between every living soul of all flesh on the earth. 17 And Elohim says to Noach, This is the sign of the covenant, I raise between me and between all flesh on the earth. 18 And the sons of Noach, going from the ark, are Shem and Ham and Yepheth: and Ham is the father of Kenaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noach: and they scatter throughout the whole earth.
THE INTOXICATION OF NOACH
20 And Noach begins to be a man of the soil and he plants a vineyard: 21 and he drinks of the wine and intoxicates; and he exposes himself midst his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Kenaan, sees the nakedness of his father and tells his two brothers outside: 23 and Shem and Yepheth take a cloth and set it on the shoulders of the two of them and go backward and cover the nakedness of their father; with their faces backward and they see not the nakedness of their father. 24 And Noach wakens from his wine and knows what his younger son worked to him: 25 and he says, Curse Kenaan; he becomes a servant of servants to his brethren. 26 And he says, Blessed be Yah Veh Elohim of Shem; and Kenaan becomes his servant. 27 Elohim enlarges Yepheth to tabernacle in the tents of Shem; and Kenaan becomes his servant. 28 And Noach lives after the flood three hundred years and fifty years: 29 and all the days of Noach - nine hundred years and fifty years: and he dies. 10 1
GENEALOGY OF THE SONS OF NOACH
And these are the generations of the sons of Noach: Shem, Ham and Yepheth: and they birth sons after the flood. 2 The sons of Yepheth: Gomer and Magog and Maday and Yavan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Yavan: Eli Shah and Tarshish, Kittiym and Dodanim. 5 By these were the isles of the goyim separated in their lands; each man by his tongue, by their families, in their goyim. 6 And the sons of Ham: Kush and Misraim and Put and Kenaan. 7 And the sons of Kush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtechah. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8 And Kush births Nimrod: he begins to be mighty in the earth. 9 He is a mighty hunter at the face of Yah Veh: thus it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter at the face of Yah Veh. 10 And the beginning of his sovereigndom is Babel and Erech and Akkad and Kalneh in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land Ashshur goes and builds Nineveh and the city Rechovoth and Kelach; 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Kelach - a great city. 13 And Misraim births Ludiym and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuchim 14 and Pathrsimm and Kasluhim - from whom came Peleshethiym and Kaphtorim. 15 And Kenaan births Sidon his firstborn firstbirthed and Heth, 16 and the Yebusiy and the Emoriy and the Girgashiy 17 and the Hivviy and the Arqiy and the Siniy 18 and the Arvadiy and the Semariy and the Hamathiy: and afterward the families of the Kenaaniy scatter. 19 And the border of the Kenaaniy is from Sidon, as you come to Gerar, to Azzah; as you go to Sedom and Amorah and Admah and Seboim, to Lesha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, in their goyim. 21 As to Shem, the father of all the sons of Heber, the brother of Yepheth the greater, he also births. 22 The sons of Shem: Elam and Ashshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. 23 And the sons of Aram: Us and Hul and Gether and Mash. 24 And Arpachshad births Shelach; and Shelach births Heber: 25 And Heber births two sons: the name of one, Peleg; for in his days the earth is divided; and the name of his brother, Yoqtan. 26 And Yoqtan births Almodad and Sheleph and Hasar Maveth and Yerach 27 and Hado Ram and Uzal and Diqlah 28 and Obal and Abi Mael and Sheba 29 and Ophir and Havilah and Yobab: all these are the sons of Yoqtan. 30 And their settlement is from Mesha, as you go to Sephar a mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, by their goyim. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noach, by their generations, in their goyim: and by these the goyim separate in the earth after the flood. 11 1
THE TOWER OF BABEL
And the whole earth is of one lip and of one word. 2 And so be it, as they pull stakes from the east, they find a valley in the land of Shinar and settle there. 3 And they say, man to friend, Give, we make brick and in burning, burn them; the brick is for stone and bitumin is for morter. 4 And they say, Give, we build us a city and a tower whose top is to the heavens; and we work us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth. 5 And Yah Veh descends to see the city and the tower the sons of humanity build: 6 and Yah Veh says, Behold, the people is one with one lip to all; and they begin to work this: and now naught is clipped from them, of which they intrigue to work. 7 Give, we descend and mix up their lip, that man not hear the lip of his friend. 8 And from there, Yah Veh scatters them abroad on the face of all the earth: and they cease to build the city. 9 So the name thereof is called Babel; because there Yah Veh mixes up the lip of all the earth: and from there Yah Veh scatters them abroad on the face of all the earth.
GENEALOGY OF SHEM
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem is a son of a hundred years, and births Arpachshad two years after the flood: 11 and after Shem births Arpachshad he lives five hundred years and births sons and daughters. 12 And Arpachshad lives thirty-five years and births Shelach: 13 and after Arpachshad births Shelach he lives four hundred years and three years and births sons and daughters. 14 And Shelach lives thirty years and births Heber: 15 and after Shelach births Heber he lives four hundred years and three years and births sons and daughters. 16 And Heber lives thirty-four years and births Peleg: 17 and after Heber births Peleg he lives four hundred years and thirty years and births sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lives thirty years and births Reu: 19 and after Peleg births Reu he lives two hundred years and nine years and births sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lives thirty-two years and births Serug: 21 and after Reu births Serug he lives two hundred years and seven years and births sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lives thirty years and births Nachor: 23 and after Serug births Nachor he lives two hundred years and births sons and daughters. 24 And Nachor lives twenty-nine years and births Terach: 25 and after Nachor births Terach he lives a hundred years and nineteen years and births sons and daughters. 26 And Terach lives seventy years and births Abram, Nachor and Haran. 27 And these are the generations of Terach: Terach births Abram, Nachor and Haran; and Haran births Lot: 28 and Haran dies at the face of his father Terach in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Kesediym. 29 And Abram and Nachor take women: the name of the woman of Abram, Saray; and the name of the woman of Nachor, Milchah daughter of Haran, father of Milchah and father of Yiskah. 30 And Saray is sterile; she has no child. 31 And Terach takes Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran the son of his son and Saray his daughter in law the woman of his son Abram; and they go with them from Ur of the Kesediym to go into the land of Kenaan; and they come to Haran and settle there. 32 And the days of Terach - two hundred years and five years: and Terach dies in Haran.