Chapter 5
1 When the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, and the messengers of Elohim saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful, and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they gave birth to their sons and they were giants.
2 Because of them lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way. Men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walked on the earth were all corrupted in their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other. Lawlessness increased on the earth and the imagination and thoughts of all men were continually, totally evil.
3 Elohim looked on the earth, and saw it was corrupt, and all flesh had corrupted its orders, and all that were on the earth had committed all manner of evil before His eyes.
4 He said that He would destroy man and all flesh on the face of the earth that He had created.
5 But Noah found grace before the eyes of Yah.
6 And against the messengers whom He had sent on the earth, He had boiling anger, and He gave commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He commanded us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and look, they are bound in the middle of the earth, and are kept separate.
7 And against their sons went out a command from His mouth that they should be killed with the sword, and be left under heaven.
8 He said, “My spirit shall not always abide on man; for they also are flesh and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
9 He sent His sword into their presence that each should kill his neighbor, and they began to kill each other until they all fell by the sword and were destroyed from the earth.
10 And their fathers were witnesses of their destruction, and after this they were bound in the depths of the earth forever, until the day of the great condemnation, when judgment is executed on all those who have corrupted their ways and their works before Yah.
11 He destroyed all wherever they were, and there was not one left of them whom He judged according to all their wickedness.
12 Through His work He made a new and righteous nature, so that they should not sin in their whole nature forever, but should be all righteous each in his own way always.
13 The judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness, even the judgment of all who depart from the path that is ordained for them to walk; and if they do not walk it, judgment is written down for every creature and for every kind.
14 There is nothing in heaven or on earth, or in light or in darkness, or in the abode of the dead or in the depth, or in the place of darkness that is not judged. All their judgments are ordained and written and engraved.
15 He will judge all, the great according to his greatness, and the small according to his smallness, and each according to his way.
16 He is not one who will regard the position of any person, nor is He one who will receive gifts, if He says that He will execute judgment on each.
17 If one gave everything that is on the earth, He will not regard the gifts or the person of any, nor accept anything at his hands, for He is a righteous judge.
18 Of the children of Israel it has been written and ordained, if they turn to him in righteousness He will forgive all their transgressions and pardon all their sins. It is written and ordained that He will show mercy to all who turn from all their guilt once each year.
19 And as for all those who corrupted their ways and their thoughts before the flood, no person was acceptable to Elohim except Noah. His sons were saved in deference to him, and these Elohim kept from the waters of the flood on his account; for Noah’s heart was righteous in all his ways. He upheld the laws and did as Elohim commanded him and he had not departed from anything that was ordained for him.
20 Yah said that he would destroy everything on the earth, both men and cattle, and beasts, and birds of the air, and that which moves on the earth.
21 And He commanded Noah to make an ark, so that he might save himself from the waters of the flood.
22 And Noah made the ark in all respects as He commanded him, in the twenty-seventh jubilee of years, in the fifth week in the fifth year on the first new month.
23 He entered in the sixth year of it, in the second new month, until the sixteenth; and he entered, and all that we brought to him, into the ark, and Yah closed it from the outside on the seventeenth evening.
24 And Yah opened seven floodgates of heaven, and He opened the mouths of the fountains of the great deep, seven mouths in number.
25 And the floodgates began to pour down water from the heaven forty days and forty nights, And the fountains of the deep also sent up waters, until the whole world was full of water.
26 The waters increased on the earth, by fifteen cubits (a cubit is about 18 inches) the waters rose above all the high mountains. And the ark was lifted up from the earth. And it moved on the face of the waters.
27 And the water covered the face of the earth five months, which is one hundred and fifty days.
28 And the ark went and rested on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat.
29 On the fourth new month the fountains of the great deep were closed and the floodgates of heaven were restrained; and on the seventh new month all the mouths of the bottomless gulfs of the earth were opened, and the water began to flow down into the deep below.
30 On the tenth new month the tops of the mountains were seen, and on the first new month the earth became visible.
31 The waters disappeared from the earth in the fifth week in the seventh year of it, and on the seventeenth day in the second month the earth was dry.
32 On the twenty-seventh of it he opened the ark, and sent out beasts, and cattle, and birds, and every moving thing.
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