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Book of Jasher 6



Book of Jasher 6

Chapter 6

 

1.                 
At that time, after the death of
Methuselah, the Lord said to Noah, Go thou with thy household into the ark;
behold I will gather to thee all the animals of the earth, the beasts of the
field and the fowls of the air, and they shall all come and surround the ark.

2.                 
And thou shalt
go and seat thyself by the doors of the ark, and all the beasts, the animals,
and the fowls, shall assemble and place themselves before thee, and such of
them as shall come and crouch before thee, shalt thou
take and deliver into the hands of thy sons, who shall bring them to the ark,
and all that will stand before thee thou shalt leave.

3.                 
And the Lord brought this about on
the next day, and animals, beasts and fowls came in great multitudes and
surrounded the ark.

4.                 
And Noah went and seated himself by
the door of the ark, and of all flesh that crouched before him, he brought into
the ark, and all that stood before him he left upon earth.

5.                 
And a lioness came, with her two
whelps, male and female, and the three crouched before Noah, and the two whelps
rose up against the lioness and smote her, and made her flee from her place,
and she went away, and they returned to their places, and crouched upon the
earth before Noah.

6.                 
And the lioness ran away, and stood
in the place of the lions.

7.                 
And Noah saw this, and wondered
greatly, and he rose and took the two whelps, and brought them into the ark.

8.                 
And Noah brought into the ark from all
living creatures that were upon earth, so that there was none left but which
Noah brought into the ark.

9.                 
Two and two came to Noah into the
ark, but from the clean animals, and clean fowls, he brought seven couples, as
God had commanded him.

10.            
And all the animals, and beasts, and
fowls, were still there, and they surrounded the ark at every place, and the
rain had not descended till seven days after.

11.            
And on that day, the Lord caused the
whole earth to shake, and the sun darkened, and the foundations of the world
raged, and the whole earth was moved violently, and the lightning flashed, and
the thunder roared, and all the fountains in the earth were broken up, such as
was not known to the inhabitants before; and God did this mighty act, in order
to terrify the sons of men, that there might be no more evil upon earth.

12.            
And still the sons of men would not
return from their evil ways, and they increased the anger of the Lord at that
time, and did not even direct their hearts to all this.

13.            
And at the end of seven days, in the
six hundredth year of the life of Noah, the waters of the flood were upon the
earth.

14.            
And all the fountains of the deep
were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon
the earth forty days and forty nights.

15.            
And Noah and his household, and all
the living creatures that were with him, came into the ark on account of the
waters of the flood, and the Lord shut him in.

16.            
And all the sons of men that were
left upon the earth, became exhausted through evil on account of the rain, for
the waters were coming more violently upon the earth, and the animals and
beasts were still surrounding the ark.

17.            
And the sons of men assembled
together, about seven hundred thousand men and women, and they came unto Noah
to the ark.

18.            
And they called to Noah, saying, Open
for us that we may come to thee in the ark–and wherefore shall we die?

19.            
And Noah, with a loud voice, answered
them from the ark, saying, Have you not all rebelled against the Lord, and said
that he does not exist? and therefore the Lord brought upon you this evil, to
destroy and cut you off from the face of the earth.

20.            
Is not this the thing that I spoke to
you of one hundred and twenty years back, and you would not hearken to the
voice of the Lord, and now do you desire to live upon earth?

21.            
And they said to Noah, We are ready
to return to the Lord; only open for us that we may live and not die.

22.            
And Noah answered them, saying,
Behold now that you see the trouble of your souls, you wish to return to the
Lord; why did you not return during these hundred and twenty years, which the
Lord granted you as the determined period?

23.            
But now you come and tell me this on
account of the troubles of your souls, now also the Lord will not listen to
you, neither will he give ear to you on this day, so that you will not now
succeed in your wishes.

24.            
And the sons of men approached in
order to break into the ark, to come in on account of the rain, for they could
not bear the rain upon them.

25.            
And the Lord sent all the beasts and
animals that stood round the ark. And the beasts overpowered them and drove
them from that place, and every man went his way and they again scattered
themselves upon the face of the earth.

26.            
And the rain was still descending
upon the earth, and it descended forty days and forty nights, and the waters
prevailed greatly upon the earth; and all flesh that was upon the earth or in
the waters died, whether men, animals, beasts, creeping things or birds of the
air, and there only remained Noah and those that were with him in the ark.

27.            
And the waters prevailed and they
greatly increased upon the earth, and they lifted up the ark and it was raised
from the earth.

28.            
And the ark floated upon the face of
the waters, and it was tossed upon the waters so that all the living creatures
within were turned about like pottage in a cauldron.

29.            
And great anxiety seized all the
living creatures that were in the ark, and the ark was like to be broken.

30.            
And all the living creatures that
were in the ark were terrified, and the lions roared, and the oxen lowed, and
the wolves howled, and every living creature in the ark spoke and lamented in
its own language, so that their voices reached to a great distance, and Noah
and his sons cried and wept in their troubles; they were greatly afraid that
they had reached the gates of death.

31.            
And Noah prayed unto the Lord, and
cried unto him on account of this, and he said, O Lord help us, for we have no
strength to bear this evil that has encompassed us, for the waves of the waters
have surrounded us, mischievous torrents have terrified us, the snares of death
have come before us; answer us, O Lord, answer us, light up thy countenance
toward us and be gracious to us, redeem us and deliver us.

32.            
And the Lord hearkened to the voice
of Noah, and the Lord remembered him.

33.            
And a wind passed over the earth, and
the waters were still and the ark rested.

34.            
And the fountains of the deep and the
windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

35.            
And the waters decreased in those
days, and the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

36.            
And Noah then opened the windows of
the ark, and Noah still called out to the Lord at that time and he said, O
Lord, who didst form the earth and the heavens and all that are therein, bring
forth our souls from this confinement, and from the prison wherein thou hast
placed us, for I am much wearied with sighing.

37.            
And the Lord hearkened to the voice
of Noah, and said to him, When though shalt have
completed a full year thou shalt then go forth.

38.            
And at the revolution of the year,
when a full year was completed to Noah’s dwelling in the ark, the waters were
dried from off the earth, and Noah put off the covering of the ark.

39.            
At that time, on the twenty-seventh
day of the second month, the earth was dry, but Noah and his sons, and those
that were with him, did not go out from the ark until the Lord told them.

40.            
And the day came that the Lord told
them to go out, and they all went out from the ark.

41.            
And they went and returned every one
to his way and to his place, and Noah and his sons dwelt in the land that God
had told them, and they served the Lord all their days, and the Lord blessed
Noah and his sons on their going out from the ark.

42.            
And he said to them, Be fruitful and
fill all the earth; become strong and increase abundantly in the earth and
multiply therein.

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