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   From: skin@color.org   
      
   The genealogy through Seth is here given. Outstanding among these   
   descendants of Seth is Enoch, who sanctifies Jehovah’s name by “walking   
   with the true God.” (5:22) The next man of notable faith is Enoch’s   
   great-grandson Noah, born 1,056 years after Adam’s creation. During this   
   time something occurs to increase the violence in the earth. Angels of   
   God forsake their heavenly habitation to marry the good-looking   
   daughters of men. This unauthorized cohabitation produces a hybrid race   
   of giants known as the Nephilim (meaning “Fellers”), who make a name,   
   not for God, but for themselves. Jehovah therefore announces to Noah   
   that He is going to wipe out man and beast because of the continuing   
   badness of mankind. Only Noah finds favor with Jehovah.   
      
     Noah becomes father to Shem, Ham, and Japheth. As violence and   
   ruination continue in the earth, Jehovah reveals to Noah that He is   
   about to sanctify His name by means of a great flood, and He commands   
   Noah to build an ark of preservation, giving him detailed building   
   plans. Noah promptly obeys and gathers his family of eight persons,   
   together with beasts and birds; then, in the 600th year of his life   
   (2370 B.C.E.), the Flood begins. The downpour continues for 40 days,   
   until even the tall mountains are covered by as much as 15 cubits (c.   
   22 ft) of water. When, after one year, Noah is finally able to lead his   
   family out of the ark, his first act is to offer a great sacrifice of   
   thanksgiving to Jehovah.   
      
     Jehovah now blesses Noah and his family and commands them to fill the   
   earth with their offspring. God’s decree gives permission to eat meat   
   but demands abstinence from blood, which is the soul, or life, of the   
   flesh, and requires the execution of a murderer. God’s covenant   
   nevermore to bring a deluge upon the earth is confirmed by the   
   appearance of the rainbow in the heavens. Later, Ham shows disrespect   
   for Jehovah’s prophet Noah. Learning of this, Noah curses Ham’s son   
   Canaan, but he adds a blessing showing that Shem will be specially   
   favored and that Japheth also will be blessed. Noah dies at 950 years of   
   age.   
      
     Noah’s three sons carry out God’s command to multiply, producing 70   
   families, the progenitors of the present human race. Nimrod, grandson of   
   Ham, is not counted in, evidently because he becomes “a mighty hunter in   
   opposition to Jehovah.” (10:9) He sets up a kingdom and starts to build   
   cities. At this time all the earth has one language. Instead of   
   scattering over the earth to populate and cultivate it, men decide to   
   build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that they can   
   make a celebrated name for themselves. However, Jehovah thwarts their   
   intention by confusing their language, and so scatters them. The city is   
   called Babel (meaning “Confusion”)   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)