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Noe. CHAP. VI. ''Mans sinnes cause of the deluge. 4. Giants were then vpon the earth. 8. Noe being iust was commanded to build the Arke, 18. wherin he with seuen persons more, and the seed of other liuing things were saved.''

ND after that men began to be multiplied vpon the earth, and had procreation of daughters, the sonnes of God seeing the daughters of men that they were faire, tooke to themselues wiues out of al which they had chosen. And God said: My spirit shal not remaine in man for euer, because he is flesh: and his dayes shal be ″ an hundred and twentie yeares. And ″ Giants were vpon the earth in those dayes. For after the sonnes of God did companie with the daughters of men, & they brought forth children, these be the mightie of the old world, famous men. And God seeing the malice of men was much on the earth, & that al the cogitation of their hart was bent to evil at al times, it repented him that he had made man on the earth. And touched inwardly with sorrow of hart, I wil, saith he: cleane take away man, whom I haue created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from that which creepeth euen vnto the foules of the ayre. For it repenteth me that I have made them.

But Noe found grace before our Lord. These are the generations of Noe: ″ Noe was a iust and perfect man in his generations, he did walke with God. And he begat three sonnes, Sem, Cham, and Iapheth. And the earth was corrupted before God, & was replenished with iniquitie. And when God had perceived that the earth was corrupted (for al flesh had corrupted his way vpon the earth) he said to Noe: The end of al flesh is come before me, the earth is replenished with iniquitie from the face of them, and I wil destroy them with the earth. Make thee an arke of timber planke: cabinets shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with bitume. And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the Arke shal be three hundred ″ cubits: fiftie cubits the breadth, and thirtie cubits the height of it. Thou shalt make a window in the arke, & in a cubit finish the top of it: & the dore of the arke thou shalt set at the side below, middle chambers & third lofts shalt thou make in it. Behold I wil bring the waters of a great floud vpon the earth, that I may destroy al flesh wherin there is breath of life vnder heauen. Al thinges that are in the earth shal be consumed. And I wil establish my couenant with thee: and thou shalt enter into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sonnes with thee. And of al liuing creatures Rh