SONS OF EXISTENCE AND DAUGHTERS OF HUMANITY

1 When humanity began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of Existence saw that the daughters of humanity were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves. 3 And the Creator said: My Spirit will not remain with humanity forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years. 4 The Fallen were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of Existence came to the daughters of humanity, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

5 When the Creator saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time, 6 the Creator regretted that They had made humanity on the earth, and They was deeply grieved. 7 Then the Creator said: I will wipe humanity, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them. 8 Deucalion, however, found favor with the Creator of Existence.

9 These are the family records of Deucalion. Deucalion was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Deucalion walked with Existence. 10 And Deucalion fathered three sons: Hellen, Amphictyon, and Orestheus.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in Existence’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness. 12 Existence saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth. 13 Then Existence said to Deucalion: I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. 15 This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 16 You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within eighteen inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

17 Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. 19 You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive. 21 Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them.

22 And Deucalion did this. He did everything that Existence had commanded him.