AND all the days that Chanok lived upon earth, were three hundred and sixty five years.
And when Chanok had ascended into heaven, all the kings of the earth rose and took Methushelach his son and anointed him, and they caused him to reign over them in the place of his father.
And Methushelach acted uprightly in the sight of Elohiym, as his father Chanok had taught him, and he likewise during the whole of his life taught the sons of men wisdom, knowledge and the fear of Elohiym, and he did not turn from the good way either to the right or to the left.
But in the latter days of Methushelach, the sons of men turned from Yahuah, they corrupted the earth, they robbed and plundered each other, and they rebelled against Elohiym and they transgressed, and they corrupted their ways, and would not hearken to the voice of Methushelach, but rebelled against him.
And Yahuah was exceedingly wroth against them, and Yahuah continued to destroy the seed in those days, so that there was neither sowing nor reaping in the earth.
For when they sowed the ground in order that they might obtain food for their support, behold, thorns and thistles were produced which they did not sow.
And still the sons of men did not turn from their evil ways, and their hands were still extended to do evil in the sight of Elohiym, and they provoked Yahuah with their evil ways, and Yahuah was very wroth, and repented that he had made man.
And he thought to destroy and annihilate them and he did so.
In those days when Lemek the son of Methushelach was one hundred and sixty years old, Sheth the son of A'dam died.
And all the days that Sheth lived, were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
And Lemek was one hundred and eighty years old when he took Ashmua, the daughter of Eliyshua the son of Chanok his uncle, and she conceived.
And at that time the sons of men sowed the ground, and a little food was produced, yet the sons of men did not turn from their evil ways, and they trespassed and rebelled against Elohiym.
And the woman of Lemek conceived and bore him a son at that time, at the revolution of the year.
And Methushelach called his name Noach, saying, The earth was in his days at rest and free from corruption, and Lemek his father called his name Menachem, saying, This one shall comfort us in our works and miserable toil in the earth, which Elohiym had cursed.
And the child grew up and was weaned, and he went in the ways of his father Methushelach, perfect and upright with Elohiym.
And all the sons of men departed from the ways of Yahuah in those days as they multiplied upon the face of the earth with sons and daughters, and they taught one another their evil practices and they continued sinning against Yahuah.
And every man made unto himself an elohiym, and they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor as well as his relative, and they corrupted the earth, and the earth was filled with violence.
And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their women by force from their men according to their choice, and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke Yahuah; and Elohiym saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals.
And Yahuah said, I will blot out man that I created from the face of the earth, yea from man to the birds of the air, together with cattle and beasts that are in the field for I repent that I made them.
And all men who walked in the ways of Yahuah, died in those days, before Yahuah brought the evil upon man which he had declared, for this was from Yahuah, that they should not see the evil which Yahuah spoke of concerning the sons of men.
And Noach found grace in the sight of Yahuah, and Yahuah chose him and his children to raise up seed from them upon the face of the whole earth.