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THE DELUGE.
CHAPTER VI.
T~LE
Ucltige.
The wicked shall be destroyed from the earth, anrl they that do
unjustly shall be taker1 away frorri it.-Pvuv. $,B.
DAM lived nine hundretl and thirty ycars. Re had
A many sons and dnuglltcrs, to whom hc nnnounced the
TIaw of God and the comingof the Redeemer. His i~n~netliate
clcscendmts also lived to a very grcat %c. Mi~athusala, the
oldest of them, lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years. The
people becnrne very numerous. Some were I~crdsmcn and
livecl in tents ; otllcrs built cities and bocame mechmics and
musicians. Tlie clescendnnts 'of the pious Setll, wvhorn God
had given to Adnm instead of Abel, were good, feared God,
and hence were cnllcd the cl~ildren af God. IIcnoc11, onc of
the children of God, was noted for his faith cmd piety, and
wits taken up alivc into heavcn. The descendants of Cain,
howcrer, turned away from God, were wiclrcd, iind were
c!nIled Clie children of men.
2. Unhappily, the children of God began to associate nrith
the children of men, and soon they thelxselves becmne wicked.
Then God said thnt men nlust not Iire so long, seeing
thnt they have become corrupt in their aayt;. l' His days
sl~all be ono hundred ancl twenty ycnrs."
3. Thc wiclred~~css of ~ncn went on iiicreasing, and thcir
thoughts were continual1 y bent upon evil. Sceir~g this, God
said : " I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the
ijcc of the cart1l.l." Rut amongst these wicked men there
wns one just and virtuous man, wl~o was called Noe.' Noe
found hvor mill1 the Lord, and tc him the Lord said : " Mulcc
thee an ark of timber pla~nlrs ; tLou shalt make little rooms in
the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without, wit11
bitumen. The length of the ark shall Ire three h~u~dred cubits,
a113 the bread;h of it fifty cubits, and the hcight of it
thirty cubits.
,lNolc (pr. h'o'nli).