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And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.

Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew.

This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.

The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

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.

Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

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

And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.

And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),

And Noe did all things which God commanded him.

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.

And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:

And God spoke to Noe, saying:

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

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