9 And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, "Adam, where art thou?" And he said to him, "I heard the sound of thee walking in the garden and I was afraid, because I am 11 naked, and I hid myself." And God said to him, "Who told thee that thou art naked, if so be thou hast not eaten of the tree of which alone I commanded thee not to eat of this?" 12 And Adam said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with 13 me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat." And the Lord God said to the woman, "Why hast thou done this?" And 14 the woman said, "The serpent seduced me and I ate." And the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed from all the cattle and from all the beasts which are upon the earth. Upon thy breast and belly thou 15 shalt go and shalt eat earth all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman; and between' thy 16 seed and her seed. He will wound thy head, and thou wilt wound his heel." And to the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply thy sorrows and thy anguish. With sorrows thou shalt bear children and to thy husband shall be thy recourse, 17 and he shall rule over thee." And to Adam he said, "Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which alone I commanded thee not to eat, the ground is cursed by thy labours. With sorrows thou shalt 18 eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles it shall cause to spring up for thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the 19 field. By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return into the earth out of which thou wast taken; for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return." 20 And Adam called the name of his wife LIFE, because she 21 was to be the mother of all the living. And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin and cloathed them. 22 And God said, "Behold Adam was made like one of us to know good and evil. And now perhaps he may stretch forth his hand and take of the tree of life and eat, so shall he live for 23 ever." So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of plea sure to till the ground out of which he was taken. And when he put Adam out he caused him to dwell over against the garden of pleasure and stationed the Cherubim and the whirling flame of fire to keep the way to the tree of life. IV. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and 2 brought forth Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from God." And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain tilled the ground. 3 And when in process of time Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord, and Abel also brought, he indeed of the firstlings of his flock even some of the fattest of them, 5 God looked upon Abel and on his gifts; but upon Cain and upon his sacrifices he did not look with regard. Thereupon Cain was exceedingly grieved and his countenance became 6 dejected. And the Lord God said to Cain, "Why art thou become sorrowful and why is thy countenance dejected?" 7 Though thou hast offered right, yet if thou hast not rightly divided, hast thou not sinned? Be composed. To thee shall be his recourse, and thou shalt rule over him." 8 Then Cain said to Abel his brother, "Let us go into the plain." And when they were in the plain, Cain rose upon Abel 9 his brother and slew him. And when the Lord God said to Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?" he said I know not. Am 10 I my brother's keeper? Then the Lord said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me 11 out of the ground. Now therefore thou art cursed from this land, which hath opened its mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it will not henceforth yield thee its strength. Thou shalt be in a state 12 of anguish and terror in this land." And Cain said to the Lord God, "Is my fault too great to be forgiven? If thou castest me out this day from the face of this land and I be hid from thy presence and be in a state of anguish and terror in the land, it will come to pass that whoever findeth me will kill me." 15 And the Lord said to him, "Not so. Whosoever killeth Cain shall suffer seven fold vengeance." And the Lord God gave a sign 16 to Cain, that whoever found him would not kill him. So Cain went out from the presence of God and dwelt in the land of 17 Naid over against Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Enoch. And he employed himself in building a city and he called the city Enoch after his son's 18 name. And to Enoch was born Gaidad; and Gaidad begot Maleleel, and Maleleel begot Mathousala, and Mathousala be got Lamech. And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the first was Ada; and the name of the second Sella. 20 And Ada bore Jobel. He was the father of them who dwell in tents, feeding cattle. And the name of his brother was Jou22 bal. He was the inventor of the psaltery and kithara. As for Sella, she also bore Thobel, and he was a smith, a manufacturer of brass and iron; and the sister of Thobel was Noe ma. And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella, "For have I slain a man that I should be wounded, 24 "For seven fold vengeance was to be taken for Cain; 25 And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and brought forth a son and called his name Seth, saying, "For God hath 26 raised up for me another seed in the place of Abel whom Cain slew." And Seth had a son; and he called his name Enos. He hoped that he would invoke the name of the Lord God. V. This is the genealogy of men. 2 On the day God made Adam, he made him after an image of God. A male and a female he made them, and blessed them. And he called his name Adam on the day he made 3 them. And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own likeness and after his own image, 4 and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam which he lived after he begot Seth were seven hundred years, and he 5 begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. 6 And Seth lived two hundred and five years and begot Enos. And Seth lived after he begot Enos seven hundred and seven years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. 9 12 And Enos lived one hundred and ninety years and begot Kainan. And Enos lived after he begot Kainan seven hun. dred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. And Kainan lived one hundred and seventy years and be 15 18 21 25 28 got Maleleel. And Kainan lived after he begot Maleleel seven hundred and forty years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Kainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. And Maleleel lived one hundred and sixty five years and begot Jared. And Maleleel lived after he begot Jared seven hundred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety five years, and he died. And Jared lived one hundred and sixty two years and begot Enoch. And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty two years, and he died. And Enoch lived one hundred and sixty five years and begot Mathousala. And Enoch continued to please God after he begot Mathousala two hundred years and begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. And Enoch continued to please God and was not found, for God translated him. And Mathousala lived one hundred and eighty seven years and begot Lamech. And Mathousala lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred and eighty two years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Mathousala which he lived were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died. And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty eight years and begot a son and called his name Noe, saying "This child will cause us to cease from our works and from the toils of our hands and from the earth which the Lord hath cursed. And Lamech lived after he begot Noe five hundred and sixty five years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty three years, and he died. VI. And Noe was five hundred years old and he had three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth. And it came to pass when the men began to be multiplied on the earth and daughters were 2 born to them, that the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all whom 3 they chose then the Lord God said, "My breath must not continue in these men to this age, because they are flesh; their days however, shall be an hundred and twenty years." Now there were giants on the earth in those days, and after that when the sons of God went in unto the daughters of men and 5 they bore to them. These were the giants of old, the men of renown. So when the Lord God saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was multiplied, and that every one was 6 in his heart studiously and continually bent upon evils, God 7 was grieved that he had made man on the earth. And God came to a determination and said, "I will blot out from the face of this earth the man I have made, both man and beast; 8 both reptiles and birds of the air. For I am grieved that I made them. But Noe found favour in the sight of the Lord God. 9 Now these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; and being perfect in the tenor of his life, Noe pleased 10 God. And Noe had three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth. Now 11 the earth was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled 12 with iniquity. And God beheld the earth and it was corrupt. Because all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth; 13 therefore the Lord God said to Noe, "The time of every man is come before me. Because the earth is filled with iniquity by their means, therefore behold I am going to destroy them and the earth. Make therefore for thyself an ark of 14 squared timber. Thou shalt make the ark with small apart15 ments, and pitch it on the inside and outside with pitch. And in this manner thou shalt make the ark. Three hundred cubits shall be the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, 16 and thirty cubits the height thereof. In building the ark thou shalt narrow the breadth and finish it above at a cubit. And thou shalt make the door of the ark out of the sides. With 17 lower, second and third stories thou shalt make it. Now behold I am going to bring a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and all that are on the earth shall die; and I will establish my 18 covenant with thee. Thou therefore shalt go into the ark, thou 19 and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee. And of all the cattle, and of all the reptiles, and of all the wild beasts, even of all flesh thou shalt bring into the ark a pair of 20 every sort, that thou mayest nourish them with thyself. They |