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And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.

And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.

And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

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

In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.

But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.

So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man’s heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:

And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.

Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,

He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.

And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.