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And Lamech saith to his wives: -- `Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, give ear [to] my saying: For a man I have slain for my wound, Even a young man for my hurt;

And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth, `for God hath appointed for me another seed instead of Abel:' for Cain had slain him.

And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the name of Jehovah.

And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth [a son] in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.

And the days of Adam after his begetting Seth are eight hundred years, and he begetteth sons and daughters.

And Seth liveth after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Enos liveth after his begetting Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Cainan liveth after his begetting Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Mahalaleel liveth after his begetting Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Jared liveth after his begetting Enoch eight hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Methuselah liveth after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

and calleth his name Noah, saying, `This [one] doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.'

And Lamech liveth after his begetting Noah five hundred and ninety and five years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

And Jehovah seeth that abundant [is] the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.

These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;

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