Jubilees

And it came to pass that when the sons of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the Angels of God saw, in a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon, and they took for themselves wives from all whom they chose, and they bore them children and they were giants.

And lawlessness increased upon the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, as did men, domestic animals, wild animals, and everything that walks on the earth. All of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour one another, and lawlessness increased upon the earth and every imagination in the thoughts of men continuously wrought evil.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, and all flesh had corrupted its orders, and all that were upon the earth practiced all manner of wickedness before His eyes.

And He said that He would destroy mankind and all flesh from off the face of the earth which He had created.

But Noah found grace before the eyes of the Lord.

And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly angry, and He ordered that they be uprooted from all their dominion, and He asked us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold, they are bound in the midst of the earth, and are kept separate.

And against their sons a command was sent forth from before His face that they be smitten with the sword, and be removed from under heaven.

And He said: "My spirit shall not always abide in man, because they are flesh and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

And He sent His sword into their midst, and each one should kill his neighbor, and they began to kill one another until all fell by the sword and were destroyed from the earth.

And their fathers were witnesses, and after this they were imprisoned in the depths of the earth forever, until the day of the great condemnation, when judgment shall be executed upon all who have corrupted their ways and their works before the Lord.

And He destroyed all from their places, and no one remained of them whom He had not judged according to all their wickedness.

And He made for all His work a new and righteous nature, so that they should not sin in all their nature forever, but should all be righteous each in his own way.

And the judgment of all was ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness. Even everyone who turned aside from the way which was ordained to walk; and if they do not walk rightly, judgment is written for every creature of every kind.

And there is nothing in heaven or on earth, or in light or in darkness, or in Hell, or in the depths, or in the places of darkness; and all their judgments are ordained, written and engraved.

Concerning everything He will judge, the great according to his greatness, and the small according to his smallness, and each according to his way.

And He is not one who considers persons, nor is He one who receives gifts. If He says He will execute judgment on everyone, if someone gives Him everything on earth, He will not consider that person's gifts, nor will He accept anything from his hands, because He is a righteous judge.

And concerning the children of Israel it was written and ordained: If they turn to Him in righteousness, He will forgive all transgressions and will forgive all their sins.

It is written and ordained that He will show mercy to all who turn from their guilt once a year.

And for those who corrupted their ways and their thoughts before the flood, no person was accepted except Noah alone; for his person was accepted, and for his sake his sons were also accepted, whom God saved from the waters because of him; for his heart was righteous and all his ways pointed in his favor, and he had not turned aside from anything that had been commanded him.

And the Lord said that He would destroy everything upon the earth, both man and domestic animals and wild animals and birds of the air, and what moves upon the earth.

And He commanded Noah to make for himself an ark, that he might save himself from the waters of the flood.

And Noah made an ark according to everything He had commanded him, in the twenty-seventh jubilee of years, in the fifth week on the fifth day.

And he entered in the sixth year, in the second month, on the new moon of the second month, until the sixteenth; and he entered, and everything we brought him, into the ark, and the Lord closed it from the outside at evening on the seventeenth.

And the Lord opened seven floodgates of heaven, and the mouths of the springs of the great deep, seven mouths in number.

And the floodgates began to pour water from heaven forty days and forty nights, and the springs of the deep gushed waters until the whole world was full of water.

And the waters increased upon the earth: The waters rose above the high mountains fifty cubits. And the ark was lifted up from the earth, and it moved upon the surface of the waters.

And the waters prevailed on the face of the earth for five months. One hundred and fifty days.

And the ark went and rested on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat.

And in the fourth month the springs of the great deep were closed and the floodgates of heaven were contained; and on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the waters began to descend into the depths.

And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were sighted, and on the new moon of the first month the earth became visible.

And the waters disappeared from upon the earth in the fifth week in the seventh year, and on the seventeenth day of the second month the earth was dry.

And on the twenty-seventh day he opened the ark and sent out the wild animals, the domestic animals, the birds, and everything that moves.