After these things, God spake unto Noah about the Flood; that it should come upon the earth, and destroy all creatures, so as not to let one of them be seen.
2And God said unto Noah, "Guard thy children; command them and make them understand not to have intercourse with the children of Cain, lest they perish with them."
3And Noah hearkened to God's words, and kept his children on the mountain, and would not let them go down to the children of Cain.
4Then God spake again unto Noah, saying, "Make unto thyself an ark of wood that will not rot; to be a deliverance to thee and to the men of thy house.'
5"Yet begin to build it in the low land of Eden, in presence of the children of Cain, that they may see thee working at it; and if they will not repent they shall perish; and the blame shall rest on them."
6Yet cut down on this holy mountain, the trees whereof thou shalt make the ark;
7Let the length of the ark be 300 cubits, the breadth thereof 50 cubits, and the height thereof 30 cubits.
8"And when thou hast made and finished it, let there be in it one door above, and three compartments (or stories), and every compartment ten cubits high."
9The first story shall be for lions, and beasts, animals and ostriches all together.
10The second story shall be for birds, and creeping things.
11"And the third story shall be for thee and thy wife, and for thy sons and their wives."
12And make in the ark wells for water, and openings to them, to draw water thereat, for drink to thee and to those that are with thee.
13And thou shalt line those wells with lead, both in and out."
14And make in the ark store-houses for corn; for food to thee and to those that are with thee."
15Then make also unto thyself a trumpet of ebony wood, three cubits long, one and a half cubit wide, with a mouth piece of the same wood."
16And thou shalt blow it three times; the first time in the morning, that the workmen working at the ark may hear it, and gather to their work.
17Then thou shalt blow it the second time, and when the workmen hear it, they will gather to their meal.
18And thou shall blow it a third time in the evening, for the workmen to go and rest from their labour."
19And God said unto Noah, "Go about among the people and tell them that a flood shall come and shall overwhelm them; and make the ark before their eyes."
20And when they question thee about the making of the ark, tell them: God has commanded me to make it, that we may get into it, I and my children, and be saved from the waters of the Flood."
21Yet when Noah went about among them and told them, they laughed at him, and only committed adultery and revelled together all the more, and said, "That twaddling old man!
22Whence will ever the waters come, above the tops of high mountains?
23We never saw water rise above mountains; and this old man says, a flood is coming!
24"Yet Noah did all his works, as God had told him concerning them.