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And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons began to lead astray the children of the sons of Noach; and to make to err and destroy them.
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And the sons of Noach came to Noach their father, and they told him concerning the demons, which were leading astray and blinding and slaying his sons'sons.
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And he prayed before Yahuah his Elohim, and said: Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, who hast shown mercy to me, And hast saved me and my sons from the waters of the flood, And hast not caused me to perish as Thou didst the sons of perdition;
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For Thy grace has been great towards me, And great has been Thy mercy to my soul;
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Let Thy grace be lift up upon my sons,
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But do Thou bless me and my sons, that we may increase and multiply and replenish the earth.
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And Thou knowest how Thy Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, acted in my day:
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and as for these spirits which are living, imprison them and hold them fast in the place of condemnation, and let them not bring destruction on the sons of your servant, my Elohim; for these are malignant, and created in order to destroy.
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And let them not rule over the spirits of the living; for Thou alone canst exercise dominion over them. And let them not have power over the sons of the righteous from from then onward and for evermore."
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And Yahuah our Elohim bade us to bind all.
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And the chief of the spirits, Mastêmâ, came and said: "Yahuah, Creator, let some of them remain before me, and let them hearken to my voice, and do all that I shall say to them;
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for if some of them are not left to me, I shall not be able to execute the power of my will on the sons of men;
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for these are for corruption and leading astray before my judgment, for great is the wickedness of the sons of men."
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And He said: "Let the tenth part of them remain before him, and let nine parts descend into the place of condemnation."
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And one of us He commanded that we should teach Noach all their medicines; for He knew that they would not walk in uprightness, nor strive in righteousness.
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And we did according to all His words: all the malignant evil ones we bound in the place of condemnation, and a tenth part of them we left that they might be subject before Satan on the earth.
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And we explained to Noach all the medicines of their diseases, together with their seductions, how he might heal them with herbs of the earth.
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And Noach wrote down all things in a book as we instructed him concerning every kind of medicine.
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Thus the evil spirits were precluded from (hurting) the sons of Noach.
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And he gave all that he had written to Shem, his eldest son; for he loved him exceedingly above all his sons.
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And Noach slept with his fathers, and was buried on Mount Lûbâr in the land of Ararat.
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Nine hundred and fifty years he completed in his life, nineteen jubilees and two weeks and five years.
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And in his life on earth he excelled the children of men save Chanokh because of the righteousness, wherein he was perfect.
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For Chanokh's office was ordained for a testimony to the generations of the world, so that he should recount all the deeds of generation to generation, till the day of judgment.
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And in the three and thirtis jubilee, in the first year in the second week, Peleg took to himself a wife, whose name was Lômnâ the daughter of Sînâ’ar,
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and she bare him a son in the fourth year of this week, and he called his name Reu;
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for he said: "Behold the children of men have become evil through the wicked purpose of building for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar."
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For they departed from the land of Ararat eastward to Shinar; for in his days they built the city and the tower, saying, "Go to, let us ascend thereby into heaven."
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And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented them together was asphalt which comes out of the sea, and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar.
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And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons began to lead astray the children of the sons of Noach; and to make to err and destroy them.
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And Yahuah our Elohim said to us: "Behold, they are one people, and (this) they begin to do, and now nothing will be withholden from them.
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Go to, let us go down and confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech,
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and they may be dispersed into cities and nations, and one purpose will no longer abide with them till the day of judgment."
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And Yahuah descended, and we descended with Him to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built.
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And He confounded their language, and they no longer understood one another's speech, and they ceased then to build the city and the tower.
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For this reason the whole land of Shinar is called Babel, because Yahuah did there confound all the language of the children of men, and from thence they were dispersed into their cities, each according to his language and his nation.
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And Yahuah sent a mighty wind against the tower and overthrew it upon the earth,
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and look it was between Asshur and Babylon in the land of Shinar, and they called its name "Overthrow."
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In the fourth week in the first year in the beginning of it in the four and thirtis jubilee, were they dispersed from the land of Shinar.
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And Ham and his sons went into the land which he was to occupy, which he acquired as his portion in the land of the south.
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And Kena’an saw the land of Lebanon to the river of Mitsrayim that it was very good, and he went not into the land of his inheritance to the west (that is to) the sea,
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and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon, eastward and westward from the border of Jordan and from the border of the sea.
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And Ham, his father, and Cush and Mizraim, his brothers, said to him: "Thou hast settled in a land which is not yours, and which did not fall to us by lot:
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do not do so; for if you do do so, you and your sons will fall in the land and (be) accursed through sedition;
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for by sedition you have settled, and by sedition will your children fall, and you shall be rooted out for ever.
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Dwell not in the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons did it come by their lot.
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Cursed are you, and cursed shall you be beyond all the sons of Noach, by the curse by which we bound ourselves by an oath in the presence of the set-apart judge, and in the presence of Noach our father."
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But he did not hearken to them, and dwelt in the land of Lebanon from Hamath to the entering of Mitsrayim, he and his sons until this day. And for this reason that land is named Kena’an.
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And Yefet and his sons went towards the sea and dwelt in the land of their portion,
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and Madai saw the land of the sea and it did not please him, and he begged a (portion) from Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad, his wife's brother,
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and he dwelt in the land of Media, near to his wife's brother until this day. And he called his dwelling-place, and the dwelling-place of his sons, Media, after the name of their father Madai.