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And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son. And she called his name, Seth, for God has appointed to me another seed in place of Abel because Cain killed him.

And a son was also born to Seth, and he called his name, Enos. Then it was begun to call on the name of Jehovah.

And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man; in their erring he is flesh. And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long.

And Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved to His heart.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

In this same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark;

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of all the earth. And he put out his hand and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark.

And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him;

And Jehovah smelled the soothing fragrance, and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for the sake of man, because the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth. Yea, I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.

And God blessed Noah and his sons. And He said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man. For He made man in the image of God.

And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

And he drank from the wine, and was drunk. And he uncovered himself inside his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father. And he told his two brothers outside.

And Noah awoke from his wine. And he came to know what his younger son had done to him.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a slave of slaves to his brothers.