Jubilees 5:1-32

¹And it came to pass, when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the angels of God saw them in a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives from all whom they chose, and they bore them sons, and these were giants.

²And lawlessness increased on the earth, and all flesh corrupted its way—men alike and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth. All of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other; and lawlessness increased on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of all men was continually evil.

³And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, and all flesh had corrupted its orders, and all that were upon the earth had committed every kind of evil before His eyes.

⁴And He said that He would destroy man and all flesh upon the face of the earth which He had created.

⁵But Noah found grace before the eyes of the Lord.

⁶And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth He was exceedingly angry, and He gave commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He bade us bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold, they are bound in the midst of them and are kept separate.

⁷And against their sons a command went forth from before His face that they should be struck with the sword and be removed from under heaven.

⁸And He said, 'My spirit shall not always abide on man, for they also are flesh, and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.'

⁹And He sent His sword into their midst so that each should slay his neighbor, and they began to slay each other until they all fell by the sword and were destroyed from the earth.

¹⁰And their fathers were witnesses of their destruction, and after this they were bound in the depths of the earth forever, until the day of the great condemnation, when judgment is executed on all those who have corrupted their ways and their works before the Lord.

¹¹And He destroyed all from their places, and there was not one of them left whom He did not judge according to all their wickedness.

¹²And He made for all His works a new and righteous nature, so that they should not sin in their whole nature forever, but should each be righteous in his kind always.

¹³And the judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness—even the judgment of all who depart from the path that is ordained for them to walk in; and if they do not walk in it, judgment is written down for every creature and for every kind.

¹⁴And there is nothing in heaven or on earth, or in light or in darkness, or in Sheol or in the depth, or in the place of darkness, which is not judged; and all their judgments are ordained and written and engraved.

¹⁵He will judge all—the great according to his greatness, and the small according to his smallness, and each according to his way.

¹⁶And He is not one who will show partiality to any person, nor is He one who will accept gifts, when He declares that He will execute judgment on each: if one gave everything that is on the earth, He would not regard the gifts or the person of any, nor accept anything at his hands, for He is a righteous judge.

¹⁷And concerning the children of Israel it has been written and ordained: if they turn to Him in righteousness, He will forgive all their transgressions and pardon all their sins.

¹⁸It is written and ordained that He will show mercy to all who turn from all their guilt once each year.

¹⁹And as for all those who corrupted their ways and their thoughts before the flood, no man's person was accepted except that of Noah alone; for his person was accepted on behalf of his sons, whom God saved from the waters of the flood on his account; for his heart was righteous in all his ways, according to what was commanded regarding him, and he had not departed from anything that was ordained for him.

²⁰And the Lord said that He would destroy everything which was upon the earth, both men and cattle, and beasts, and birds of the air, and that which moves on the earth.

²¹And He commanded Noah to make himself an ark, that he might save himself from the waters of the flood.

²²And Noah made the ark in all respects as He commanded him, in the twenty-seventh jubilee of years, in the fifth week, in the fifth year (on the new moon of the first month). [1307 A.M.]

²³And he entered in the sixth year thereof, [1308 A.M.] in the second month, on the new moon of the second month, until the sixteenth; and he entered, and all that we brought to him, into the ark, and the Lord closed it from outside on the seventeenth evening.

²⁴And the Lord opened seven flood-gates of heaven, and the mouths of the fountains of the great deep, seven mouths in number.

²⁵And the flood-gates began to pour down water from heaven for forty days and forty nights, and the fountains of the deep also sent up waters, until the whole world was full of water.

²⁶And the waters increased upon the earth: fifteen cubits the waters rose above all the high mountains, and the ark was lifted up above the earth, and it moved upon the face of the waters.

²⁷And the water prevailed on the face of the earth for five months—one hundred and fifty days.

²⁸And the ark went and rested on the top of Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat.

²⁹And on the new moon of the fourth month the fountains of the great deep were closed and the flood-gates of heaven were restrained; and on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the water began to descend into the deep below.

³⁰And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and on the new moon of the first month the earth became visible.

³¹And the waters disappeared from above the earth in the fifth week, in the seventh year thereof, [1309 A.M.] and on the seventeenth day of the second month the earth was dry.

³²And on the twenty-seventh of that month he opened the ark and sent forth from it beasts, and cattle, and birds, and every moving thing.