After this Noah took his sons, and built them a city and called it Semanan; as they were eight souls that came out of the ark.
2And Noah and his sons dwelt on that mountain about a hundred years, until he had children and children's children.
3And Noah took a root of vine and planted it, and dressed it until it yielded fruit.
4It was sweet, and Noah took some of it, and pressed wine out of it, and took it one night and drank of it, and was drunk, and he went in to sleep next to his wife unawares.
5Then Ham, his son, came into the house in the morning and saw his father uncovered, and drunk with wine, and without sense to know anything.
6Then Ham his son kept on laughing at him, and said, "What is this thou hast done, O thou old man?"
7Yet the old man understood not what he said; only Noah's wife understood it well.
8Then Ham went out laughing at his father, and told his brothers Shem and Japhet what his father had done; and laughed at his parents.
9Yet his brothers were angry with him, and rebuked him well for so doing; because they were afraid of him, as regards the old man; for Ham was rough and hard in his talk.
10Then Shem and Japhet rose quickly, and took with them a coverlet, and put behind their backs that coverlet that reached unto their feet; and they walked backwards, and turned their face towards the way they had gone, until they came to their parents.
11Then they threw the coverlet over them, and went from them in haste, so as not to see them.
12Yet on the morrow after this, Noah's wife told him what Ham had said and what he had done.
13Then was Noah very angry with his son Ham for what he had done; and he cursed him, and made him servant of his brothers.
14Yet Noah blessed Shem and Japhet, his sons, because they had behaved well to him.
15Then Noah married another wife, who bare him seven children, and he continued to dwell on that mountain until the days drew near when he must depart this life.
16And Noah lived 350 years after he came out of the ark.
17Then he called his first-born son Shem, and conversed with him, saying, "O my son, hearken unto what I command thee.
18Behold what I command thee now is, to hold good until I die and ye bury me.
19Then when ye have ended mourning for me, go into the ark wherein we were saved from the flood; then bring out of it the body of our father Adam; yet let no one know of it but one that is of thy seed.
20Then make a beautiful case for it, and lay it therein.
21Then take with thee some bread to be for provision unto thee by the way, and wine whereof to drink on thy way; for the land to which thou shalt go is rough and hungry.
22Then take Melchizedec the youngest son of Cainan, (or, Arphaxad) thy son; for God has chosen him from all generations of men, to stand before Him to worship and to minister unto Him, by the body of our father Adam.
23Then lay the body of Adam in the midst of the earth; and set Melchizedec to stand by it; and show him how to fulfil his ministry before God."
24Moreover Noah said unto Shem his son, "If ye will keep my commandment and go as I tell you, an angel of the Lord will go with you, and show you the way,
25until ye come to the place where ye shall lay the body of Adam in the midst of the earth; for in that same place shall God work salvation for the whole world."
26Yet, O my son, I know that our children forsook this good commandment, and went down the Holy Mountain, and mingled with the children of Cain, and that they perished with them in the waters of the Flood.
27Know, O my son, that from Adam until this day, every one of the ancients, gave commandments to one of the rest, at the time of his resting from the flesh, and that they taught these commandments among themselves.
28The first, O my son, who taught this commandment and made it plain, was our father Adam; he gave it to his son Seth, who received it.
29Then Seth handed it to his son Enos who kept it, and Enos gave it to his son Cainan who kept it.
30Then Cainan gave it to his son Mahalaleel, who kept it, and handed it to his son Jared. "
31And Jared kept it and gave it to his son Enoch, who also kept this commandment and gave it to his son Methuselah, who kept it,
32and gave it to his son Lamech who kept it, and who gave it to me, his son; and I have kept it.
33Yet my grandfather Methuselah also gave me a great commandment which I have kept; and which I give thee likewise.
34So, then, receive my commandment, and hold fast my words; and hide this mystery within thy heart; yet reveal it not to one of all thy kindred.
35Yet go, and lay the body of our father Adam in the earth; and let it remain there unto the day of salvation."