¹ And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

² and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

³ And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

⁴ The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they [are] the heroes, who, from of old, [are] the men of name.

⁵ And Jehovah seeth that abundant [is] the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

⁶ and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.

⁷ And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'

⁸ And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁹ These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

¹⁰ And Noah begetteth three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled [with] violence.

¹² And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

¹³ And God said to Noah, `An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

¹⁴ `Make for thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress;

¹⁵ and this [is] that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits [is] the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;

¹⁶ a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its side, -- lower, second, and third [stories] dost thou make it.

¹⁷ `And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which [is] a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that [is] in the earth doth expire.

¹⁸ `And I have established My covenant with thee, and thou hast come in unto the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy son's wives with thee;

¹⁹ and of all that liveth, of all flesh, two of every [sort] thou dost bring in unto the ark, to keep alive with thee; male and female are they.

²⁰ Of the fowl after its kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every [sort] they come in unto thee, to keep alive.

²¹ `And thou, take to thyself of all food that is eaten; and thou hast gathered unto thyself, and it hath been to thee and to them for food.'

²² And Noah doth according to all that God hath commanded him; so hath he done.

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying unto them,

² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] the beast which ye do eat out of all the beasts which [are] on the earth:

³ any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts, it ye do eat.

⁴ `Only, this ye do not eat -- of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof -- the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof not dividing -- it [is] unclean to you;

⁵ and the rabbit, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof it divideth not -- unclean it [is] to you;

⁶ and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof hath not divided -- unclean it [is] to you;

⁷ and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up -- unclean it [is] to you.

⁸ `Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come -- unclean they [are] to you.

⁹ `This ye do eat of all which [are] in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

¹⁰ and any one that hath not fins and scales in the seas, and in the brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which liveth, which [is] in the waters -- an abomination they [are] to you;

¹¹ yea, an abomination they are to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and their carcase ye abominate.

¹² `Any one that hath not fins and scales in the waters -- an abomination it [is] to you.

¹³ `And these ye do abominate of the fowl; they are not eaten, an abomination they [are]: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

¹⁴ and the vulture, and the kite after its kind,

¹⁵ every raven after its kind,

¹⁶ and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

¹⁷ and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

¹⁸ and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

¹⁹ and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

²⁰ `Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four -- an abomination it [is] to you.

²¹ `Only -- this ye do eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which hath legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth;

²² these of them ye do eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind;

²³ and every teeming thing which is flying, which hath four feet -- an abomination it [is] to you.

²⁴ `And by these ye are made unclean, any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean till the evening;

²⁵ and anyone who is lifting up [aught] of their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening: --

²⁶ even every beast which is dividing the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, and the cud is not bringing up -- unclean they [are] to you; any one who is coming against them is unclean.

²⁷ `And any one going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four -- unclean they [are] to you; any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean until the evening;

²⁸ and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening -- unclean they [are] to you.

²⁹ `And this [is] to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,

³⁰ and the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole;

³¹ these [are] the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

³² `And anything on which any one of them falleth, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and hath been unclean till the evening, then it hath been clean;

³³ and any earthen vessel, into the midst of which [any] one of them falleth, all that [is] in its midst is unclean, and it ye do break.

³⁴ `Of all the food which is eaten, that on which cometh [such] water, is unclean, and all drink which is drunk in any [such] vessel is unclean;

³⁵ and anything on which [any] of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they [are], yea, unclean they are to you.

³⁶ `Only -- a fountain or pit, a collection of water, is clean, but that which is coming against their carcase is unclean;

³⁷ and when [any] of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown -- it [is] clean;

³⁸ and when water is put on the seed, and [any] of its carcase hath fallen on it -- unclean it [is] to you.

³⁹ `And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening;

⁴⁰ and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening.

⁴¹ `And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten;

⁴² any thing going on the belly, and any going on four, unto every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth -- ye do not eat them, for they [are] an abomination;

⁴³ ye do not make yourselves abominable with any teeming thing which is teeming, nor do ye make yourselves unclean with them, so that ye have been unclean thereby.

⁴⁴ `For I [am] Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;

⁴⁵ for I [am] Jehovah who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy.

⁴⁶ `This [is] a law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature which is moving in the waters, and of every creature which is teeming on the earth,

⁴⁷ to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'