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was no food for the sons of men and the famine abominable in the sight of their men as widows,
was very great in those days. 8 And the seed which while their men lived, for to the barren ones only
they sowed in those days in the ground became they were attached. 23 And in the end of days and
thorns, thistles and briers; for from the days of years, when Tsillah became old, YAHUAH opened
Adam was this declaration concerning the earth, her womb. 24 And she conceived and bore a son
of the curse of ELOHIYM, which he cursed the and she called his name Tubal Qayin, saying, After
earth, on account of the sin which Adam sinned I had withered away have I obtained him from EL
before YAHUAH. 9 And it was when men SHADDAI ELOHIYM. 25 And she conceived again
continued to rebel and transgress against and bore a daughter, and she called her name
ELOHIYM, and to corrupt their ways, that the Na`amah, for she said, After I had withered away
earth also became corrupt. 10 And Enosh lived have I obtained pleasure and delight. 26 And
ninety years and he begat Qeynan; 11 And Qeynan Lemek was old and advanced in years, and his eyes
grew up and he was forty years old, and he became were dim that he could not see, and Tubal Qayin,
wise and had knowledge and skill in all wisdom, his son, was leading him and it was one day that
and he reigned over all the sons of men, and he led Lemek went into the field and Tubal Qayin his son
the sons of men to wisdom and knowledge; for was with him, and while they were walking in the
Qeynan was a very wise man and had field, Qayin the son of Adam advanced towards
understanding in all wisdom, and with his wisdom them; for Lemek was very old and could not see
he ruled over ruachoth and devils; 12 And Qeynan much, and Tubal Qayin his son was very young. 27
knew by his wisdom that ELOHIYM would destroy And Tubal Qayin told his father to draw his bow,
the sons of men for having sinned upon earth, and and with the arrows he smote Qayin, who was yet
that YAHUAH would in the latter days bring upon far off, and he slew him, for he appeared to them
them the waters of the flood. 13 And in those days to be an animal. 28 And the arrows entered
Qeynan wrote upon tablets of stone, what was to Qayin's body although he was distant from them,
take place in time to come, and he put them in his and he fell to the ground and died. 29 And
treasures. 14 And Qeynan reigned over the whole YAHUAH requited Qayin's evil according to his
earth, and he turned some of the sons of men to wickedness, which he had done to his brother
the service of ELOHIYM. 15 And when Qeynan was H’avel, according to the Word of YAHUAH which
seventy years old, he begat three sons and two he had spoken. 30 And it came to pass when Qayin
daughters. 16 And these are the names of the had died, that Lemek and Tubal Qayin went to see
children of Qeynan; the name of the firstborn the animal which they had slain, and they saw, and
Mahalal’el, the second Eynan, and the third Mered, behold Qayin their grandfather was fallen dead
and their sisters were Adah and Tsillah; these are upon the earth. 31 And Lemek was very much
the five children of Qeynan that were born to him. grieved at having done this, and in clapping his
17 And Lemek, the son of Methusha’el, became hands together he struck his son and caused his
related to Qeynan by marriage, and he took his death. 32 And the women of Lemek heard what
two daughters for his women, and Adah conceived Lemek had done, and they sought to kill him. 33
and bore a son to Lemek, and she called his name And the women of Lemek hated him from that day,
Yaval. 18 And she again conceived and bore a son, because he slew Qayin and Tubal Qayin, and the
and called his name Yuval; and Tsillah, her sister, women of Lemek separated from him, and would
was barren in those days and had no offspring. 19 not hearken to him in those days. 34 And Lemek
For in those days the sons of men began to came to his women, and he pressed them to listen
transgression against ELOHIYM, and to transgress to him about this matter. 35 And he said to his
the commandments which he had commanded to women Adah and Tsillah, Hear my voice O women
Adam, to be fruitful and multiply in the earth. 20 of Lemek, attend to my words, for now you have
And some of the sons of men caused their women imagined and said that I slew a man with my
to drink a draught that would render them barren, wounds, and a child with my stripes for their
in order that they might retain their figures and having done no violence, but surely know that I am
whereby their beautiful appearance might not old and grayheaded, and that my eyes are heavy
fade. 21 And when the sons of men caused some through age, and I did this thing unknowingly. 36
of their women to drink, Tsillah drank with them. And the women of Lemek listened to him in this
22 And the child bearing women appeared matter, and they returned to him with the advice
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