¹ And the word of Jehovah was unto^▵ me, saying,

² Son of man, speak to^▵ the sons of thy people, and say to^▵ them, When^◦ I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man^◦ from within their ends, and put^◦ him for a watchman for them;

³ and he sees the sword come on the land, and he sounds the shophar^*, and warns the people;

⁴ and the hearer hear the voice of the shophar, and take· not ·warning, and the sword come, and take him, his blood shall be on^◦ his own head.

⁵ He heard the voice of the shophar, and took· not ·warning; his blood shall be upon^◦ him. But he^◦ who takes·​·warning shall deliver^◦ his soul.

⁶ But if^▫ the watchman should see the sword coming, and not sound the shophar, and the people be not warned; and the sword come, and take a soul from among them^◦, he^◦ is taken in his iniquity, but his blood will I require from the hand of the watchman.

⁷ And thou^◦, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear the word from My mouth, and warn them from Me.

⁸ When I say to the wicked, O wicked one, dying thou shalt die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that^◦ wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I seek at thy hand.

⁹ But thou^◦, if^▫ thou warn the wicked of his way to turn·​·back from it, and he does not turn·​·back from his way, he^◦ shall·​·die in his iniquity; but thou^◦ hast rescued thy soul.

¹⁰ And thou^◦, son of man, say to^▵ the house of Israel, Thus^◦ you say, saying, Surely^▵ our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we^◦ waste·​·away in them, and how^◦ should we live?

¹¹ Say to^▵ them, As I^◦ am alive, says^◦ the Lord Jehovih^*, I have no^▫ delight in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn·​·back from his way and live; turn· ye ·back, turn· ye ·back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

¹² And thou^◦, son of man, say to^▵ the sons of thy people, The justice of the just shall not rescue him in the day of his transgression; and the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not stumble on^◦ it in the day that he turns·​·back from his wickedness; neither shall the just be·​·able to live in his justice in the day of his sin.

¹³ When I shall say to the just, that living he shall live, and he^◦ should trust upon his own justice, and do perversity, all his justice shall not be remembered; but for his perversity that he has done, he shall·​·die for it.

¹⁴ And when I say to the wicked, Dying thou shalt die, and he turn·​·back from his sin, and do judgment and justice,

¹⁵ If the wicked return the pledge, repay what·​·is·​·robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without doing perversity, living he shall live; he shall· not ·die.

¹⁶ All of his sins that he has sinned shall not be mentioned to him; he has done judgment and justice; living he shall live.

¹⁷ But the sons of thy people say, The way of the Lord is· not ·fair^◦*; but as for them^◦, their way is· not ·fair^◦.

¹⁸ When the just turns·​·back from his justice, and does perversity, he shall· even ·die thereby.

¹⁹ But if the wicked turn·​·back from his wickedness, and do judgment and justice, thereby he^◦ shall live.

²⁰ But you say, The way of the Lord is· not ·fair^◦. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you, each·​·man^◦ according·​·to his ways.

²¹ And it was, in the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, in the fifth of the month, that one who had escaped^◦ from Jerusalem came to^▵ me, saying, The city is smitten.

²² And the hand of Jehovah was upon me in the evening, before the coming of him who escaped^◦; and He opened my mouth, until he came to^▵ me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was·​·dumb no^◦ more^◦.

²³ And the word of Jehovah was to^▵ me, saying,

²⁴ Son of man, they who dwell·​·in these wastes of the ground of Israel say, saying, Abraham was one, and he possessed the land, but we^◦ are many; the land is given to us for a possession.

²⁵ Therefore say to^▵ them, Thus says the Lord Jehovih: You eat with the blood, and lift your eyes to^▵ your idols, and shed blood; and shall you possess the land?

²⁶ You stand upon your sword, you do abomination, and you are defiled, a man^◦ with the wife of his companion; and shall you possess the land?

²⁷ Say thou thus to^▵ them, Thus says the Lord Jehovih: As I^◦ live, surely they who are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him who is on the faces of the field will I give to the wild·​·animals to devour, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

²⁸ And I will lay the land most desolate, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass·​·through.

²⁹ And they shall know that I^◦ am Jehovah, when I have laid the land most desolate on·​·account·​·of all their abominations which they have done.

³⁰ And thou^◦, son of man, the sons of thy people are speaking against^◦ thee beside the walls^◦ and in the entrances of the houses, and they speak one with^◦ another one, a man^◦ to his brother, saying, Come, I pray^◦ you, and hear what the word is that goes·​·forth from Jehovah.

³¹ And they come unto^▵ thee as the coming of a people, and they sit before thee as My people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them; for with their mouth they^◦ do dote, but their heart goes^◦ after their own gain.

³² And, behold, thou art to them as a doting song of a beautiful voice, and thou strummest well; and they hear thy words, but none of them do them.

³³ And when it comes—, behold it comes—then they shall know that a prophet has been among^▵ them.

¹ And God blessed Noaḥ and his sons, and said to them, Be·​·fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.

² And let the fear of you and the terror^* of you be on every animal of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens; to everything that the ground makes to creep forth, and to all the fish of the sea, into your hand let them be given.

³ Every creeping thing that lives shall be for you for food; as the green^◦ herb have I given it all to you.

⁴ Only^▵ the flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.

⁵ And surely your blood I will require of your souls; from the hand of every wild·​·animal I will require it; and from the hand of man, from the hand of a man^◦ his brother, I will require the soul of man.

⁶ Whoever sheds man’s blood in man^*, his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God made He man.

⁷ And you^◦, be· ye ·fruitful, and multiply; crawl forth on^◦ the earth, and multiply in it.

⁸ And God said to^▵ Noaḥ, and to^▵ his sons with^◦ him, saying,

⁹ And I^◦, behold, I raise·​·up My covenant with^◦ you, and with^◦ your seed after you;

¹⁰ and with^◦ every living soul that is with^◦ you, even to the fowl, to the beast, and to every wild·​·animal of the land with^◦ you; of all that go·​·out of the ark^◦, as·​·to every wild·​·animal of the land.

¹¹ And I will raise·​·up my covenant with^◦ you; neither shall all flesh be cut·​·off any·​·more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there be any·​·more a flood to destroy the earth.

¹² And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I^◦ give between Me and you and every living soul that is with^◦ you, for the generations of an age;

¹³ I have put^◦ My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

¹⁴ And it shall be, in clouding Myself with a cloud on the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

¹⁵ and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living soul among^◦ all flesh; and the waters shall no^◦ more^◦ be for a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will see it, to remember the eternal covenant between God and every living soul among^◦ all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷ And God said to^▵ Noaḥ, This is the sign of the covenant which I have raised·​·up between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.

¹⁸ And the sons of Noaḥ, who went·​·out from the ark^◦, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham, he^◦ is the father of Canaan.

¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noaḥ; and from these was scattered all the earth.

²⁰ And Noaḥ began to be a man^◦ of the ground, and he planted a vineyard;

²¹ and he drank from the wine and was·​·drunken; and he was uncovered in the midst of his tent.

²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

²³ And Shem and Japheth took the raiment, and set it upon the shoulders of the two of them, and walked^◦ backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.

²⁴ And Noaḥ awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger^◦ son had done to him.

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.

²⁶ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant to him.

²⁷ May God enlarge^◦ Japheth, and he shall reside in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant to him.

²⁸ And Noaḥ lived after the flood three hundred years and fifty years.

²⁹ And all the days of Noaḥ were nine hundred years and fifty years; and he died.