Then in the hundredth year of Nahor, God looked down upon the children of men and saw that they sacrificed their children to idols.
2Then God commanded the stores of winds to open, and to send forth the whirlwind, and gales, and darkness upon the whole face of the earth, until all the idols and images, and figures were brought together by the winds in mountains upon mountains high, and the idols remained buried under them until this day.
3Many wise men have written about this wind, that it was the wind of the Flood; and many of them say it was the water of the Flood that thus brought together these mountains of idols.
4Yet they erred, and said what is false concerning it; because ere the water of the Flood came upon the earth, there were no idols in it, yet the Flood came upon the men at that time because of their adulteries, and of the sins which they committed among themselves; both the children of Cain, and those who followed them.
5Moreover at that time the whole earth was not filled with people; except only the land of the garden, in which dwelt the children of Seth; and the place inhabited by the children of Cain; besides that, the whole earth was bare of inhabitants.
6Yet when the Flood came, it bare the ark, and brought it to this land of trouble, and this earth was filled with people; and that land was laid waste.
7Then in those days, king Nimrud saw a flaming fire in the east, which arose from the earth, then said Nimrud, "What is that fire?"
8He then went towards it; and when he saw it, he bowed to it in worship, and appointed a priest to minister before it, to burn incense to it, and to sacrifice victims to it. From that day the men of Fars began to fill the earth.
9Then Satan the worker of idols saw a fountain of water near the fire-pit, and he came to it, and looked at it, and made a horse of gold, and set it up on the edge of the fountain of water;
10and it so happened that all those who came to wash in that fountain of water, bowed in worship to that golden horse; and from that time, the people of Fare began to worship horses.
11Yet the priest whom Nimrud appointed to minister to the fire and to burn incense to it, wished to be a teacher, and wise of the same wisdom as Nimrud, whom Barwin, Noah's fourth son had taught.
12That priest, therefore, kept on asking Satan, while standing before the fire, to teach him this evil ministry and abominable wisdom.
13So, when Satan saw him doing his best in the service of the fire, he talked to him, and said, "No man can become a teacher, or wise, or great before me, unless he hearkens to me, and goes and weds his mother, his sister, and his daughter."
14Then that priest hearkened to Satan in all that he commanded him, and taught him all manner of wisdom and of wickednesses.
15And from that time, the people of Fars have committed like sins unto this day, and Nimrud built great cities in the east; and wrought all manner of iniquities in them.