And in the seventh week in the first year thereof, in this jubilee, Noah planted vines on the mountain on which the ark had rested, named Lûbâr, one of the Ararat Mountains,

and they produced fruit in the fourth year,

and he guarded their fruit, and gathered it in this year in the seventh month, and kept it until the fifth year, until the first day, on the new moon of the first month.

And he celebrated with joy the day of this feast, and he made a burnt offering unto God, one young ox and one ram, and seven sheep, each a year old, and a kid of the goats, that he might seek forgiveness thereby for himself and his sons.

And he prepared the kid first, and all the fat he laid on the altar where he made the burnt offering,

and the ox and the ram and the sheep, and he laid all their flesh upon the altar. And he placed all their offerings mingled with oil upon it,

and he placed incense on the altar and caused a sweet savour to ascend, acceptable before God his Lord.

And he rejoiced, he and his children, with joy and thanksgiving.

And Noah blessed his sons, and he blessed Shem, and said: "Blessed be God, the Lord of Shem.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and God's blessing shall rest upon the dwelling of Shem."

And Ham parted from his father, he and his sons with him, Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

And he built for himself a city and called its name after the name of his wife Nê'êlâtamâ'ûk.

And Japheth saw it, and became envious of his brother, and he too built for himself a city, and he called its name after the name of his wife 'Adâtanêsês.

And Shem dwelt with his father Noah, and he built a city close to his father on the mountain, and he too called its name after the name of his wife Sêdêqêtêlĕbâb.

And behold these three cities are near Mount Lûbâr; Sêdêqêtêlĕbâb fronting the mountain on its east; and Na'êlâtamâ'ûk on the south; 'Adatanêsês towards the west.

And these are the sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad--this son was born two years after the flood--and Lud, and Aram.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan, Tubal and Meshech and Tiras: these are the sons of Noah.

And in the twenty-eighth jubilee Noah began to enjoin upon his sons' sons the ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he knew,

and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honour father and mother, and love their neighbour, and guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity.

For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth, namely,

owing to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances went a whoring after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which they chose: and they made the beginning of uncleanness.

And they begat sons the Nâphîlîm, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another: and the Giants slew the Nâphîl, and the Nâphîl slew the Eljô, and the Eljô mankind, and one man another.

And every one sold himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

And after this they sinned against the beasts and birds, and all that moveth and walketh on the earth: and much blood was shed on the earth,

and every imagination and desire of men imagined vanity and evil continually.

And God destroyed everything from off the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth He destroyed everything.

"And we were left, I and you, my sons, and everything that entered with us into the ark,

and behold I see your works before me that ye do not walk in righteousness; for in the path of destruction ye have begun to walk,

and ye are parting one from another, and are envious one of another, and so it cometh that ye are not in harmony, my sons, each with his brother.

For I see, and behold the devils have begun their seductions against you and against your children,

and now I fear on your behalf, that after my death ye will shed the blood of men upon the earth, and that ye, too, will be destroyed from the face of the earth.

For whoso sheddeth man's blood, and whoso eateth the blood of any flesh, will all be destroyed from the earth.

And there will not be left any man that eateth blood, or that sheddeth the blood of man on the earth, nor will there be left to him any seed or descendants living under heaven;

for into Hell will they go, and into the place of condemnation will they descend,

and into the darkness of the deep will they all be removed by a violent death.

There shall be no blood seen upon you of all

the blood there shall be all the days in which ye have killed any beasts or cattle or whatever flieth upon the earth, and work ye a good work to your souls by covering that which hath been shed on the face of the earth.

And ye shall not be like him who eateth with blood, but guard yourselves that none may eat blood before you:

cover the blood, for thus have I been commanded to testify to you and your children, together with all flesh.

And suffer not the soul to be eaten with the flesh, that your blood, which is your life, may not be required at the hand of any flesh that sheddeth it on the earth.

For the earth will not be clean from the blood which hath been shed upon it; for only through the blood of him that shed it will the earth be purified throughout all its generations.

And now, my children, hearken: work judgment and righteousness that ye may be planted in righteousness over the face of the whole earth, and your glory lifted up before my God, who saved me from the waters of the flood.

And behold, ye will go and build for yourselves cities, and plant in them all the plants that are upon the earth, and moreover all fruit-bearing trees.

For three years the fruit of everything that is eaten will not be gathered: and in the fourth year its fruit will be accounted holy, and they will offer the first-fruits,

acceptable before God Most High, who created heaven and earth and all things.

Let them offer in abundance the first of the wine and oil as first-fruits on the altar of God, who receiveth it,

and what is left let the servants of the house of God eat before the altar which receiveth it.

And in the fifth year make ye the release so that ye release it in righteousness and uprightness, and ye shall be righteous, and all that you plant will prosper.

For thus did Enoch, the father of your father command Methuselah, his son, and Methuselah his son Lamech, and Lamech commanded me all the things which his fathers commanded him.

And I also will give you commandment, my sons, as Enoch commanded his son in the first jubilees:

whilst still living, the seventh in his generation, he commanded and testified to his son and to his sons' sons until the day of his death."