2:1
“Now, my son Shet, I disclose what the three men first revealed to me, so that when the times and years of this generation are completed, the seed may understand what is coming.”
2:2
“[The transition is damaged.] Rains of the Almighty ruler will be sent to destroy all flesh from the earth.”
2:3
“The destruction concerns those who turn from him, yet it also reaches the seed of the people upon whom the life of knowledge passed—the life that came forth from me and Chavvah your mother—for they were strangers to that ruler.”
2:4
“Great messengers will come upon high clouds. They will carry those people to the place where the breath of life dwells, a place whose glory the damaged manuscript only partly preserves.”
2:5
“Then [a power] will descend from heaven to earth, and the multitude of flesh will perish in the waters.”
2:6
“The ruler will rest from wrath. He will cast his power upon the waters and give authority to his sons and their wives through the ark, together with the animals he favored and the birds he called. He will set them upon the earth.”
2:7
“He will say to Noach—the one later generations will call Deucalion—‘See: I protected you in the ark, you, your wife, your sons, their wives, the animals, and the birds.’”
2:8
“‘I give the earth to you and your sons. You and your sons shall rule it in kingship. No seed shall arise from you belonging to those who refuse to stand before me in another glory.’”
2:9
“Yet the people of the other seed will appear like a cloud of great light. Those expelled from knowledge of the great aeons and messengers will come and stand before Noach and the aeons.”
2:10
“The ruler will accuse Noach: ‘Why did you depart from my instruction? You have produced another generation in contempt of my power.’”
2:11
“Noach will answer under oath before the ruler’s wrath: ‘The generation of these people did not come from me or from my sons.’ The end of his defense is damaged.”
2:12
“[The heavenly agents] will bring those people into a land worthy of them and build for them a set-apart dwelling.”
2:13
“They will be called by the Name and remain there six hundred years in incorruptible knowledge. Messengers of the great light will accompany them. No detestable desire will occupy their hearts; only knowledge of the eternal source will …