Book V - Snyder Bible

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had lived the life of malachim, being allured by the beauty of
women, fell into promiscuous and illicit connections with
these; and thenceforth acting in all things without discretion,
and disorderly, they changed the state of human affairs and
the divinely prescribed order of life, so that either by persuasion
or force they compelled all men to sin against Yahweh
their Creator. In the ninth generation are born the giants, so
called from of old, not dragon-footed, as the fables of the
Greeks relate, but men of immense bodies, whose bones, of
enormous size, are still shown in some places for confirmation.
But against these the righteous providence of Yahweh
brought a flood upon the world, that the earth might be purified
from their pollution, and every place might be turned into
a sea by the destruction of the wicked. Yet there was then
found one righteous man, by name Noah, who, being delivered
in the tayvah with his three sons and their wives, became the
colonizer of the world after the subsiding of the waters, with
and they had begun to multiply, they received a commandment
that they should not taste blood, for on account of this
also the deluge had been sent. In the thirteenth generation,
his father, and had been cursed by him, he brought the condition
of slavery upon his posterity. His elder brother meantime
obtained the lot of a dwelling-place in the middle region of the
world, in which is the country of Judaea; the younger obtained
the eastern quarter, and he the western. In the fourteenth
generation one of the cursed progeny first erected an altar to
demons, for the purpose of magical arts, and offered there
bloody sacrifices. In the fifteenth generation, for the first time,
men set up an idol and worshipped it. Until that time the Hebrew
language, which had been given by Yahweh to men, bore
sole sway. In the sixteenth generation the sons of men migrated
from the east, and, coming to the lands that had been