During the third week of this jubilee [1583-89] impure demons began to mislead Noah’s grandchildren, to make them act foolishly, and to destroy them.

Then Noah’s sons came to their father Noah and told him about the demons who were misleading, blinding, and killing his grandchildren.

He prayed before the Lord his God and said: ‘God of the spirits which are in all animate beings — you who have shown kindness to me, saved me and my sons from the flood waters, and did not make me perish as you did to the people (meant for) destruction — because your mercy for me has been large and your kindness to me has been great: may your mercy be lifted over the children of your children; and may the wicked spirits not rule them in order to destroy them from the earth.

Now you bless me and my children so that we may increase, become numerous, and fill the earth.

You know how your Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, have acted during my lifetime. As for these spirits who have remained alive, imprison them and hold them captive in the place of judgment. May they not cause destruction among your servant’s sons, my God, for they are savage and were created for the purpose of destroying.

May they not rule the spirits of the living for you alone know their punishment; and may they not have power over the sons of the righteous from now and forevermore’.

Then our God told us to tie up each one.

When Mastema, the leader of the spirits, came, he said: ‘Lord creator, leave some of them before me; let them listen to me and do everything that I tell them, because if none of them is left for me I shall not be able to exercise the authority of my will among mankind. For they are meant for (the purposes of) destroying and misleading before my punishment because the evil of mankind is great’.

Then he said that a tenth of them should be left before him, while he would make nine parts descend to the place of judgment.

He told one of us that we should teach Noah all their medicines because he knew that they would neither conduct themselves properly nor fight fairly.

We acted in accord with his entire command. All of the evil ones who were savage we tied up in the place of judgment, while we left a tenth of them to exercise power on the earth before the satan.

We told Noah all the medicines for their diseases with their deceptions so that he could cure (them) by means of the earth’s plants.

Noah wrote down in a book everything (just) as we had taught him regarding all the kinds of medicine, and the evil spirits were precluded from pursuing Noah’s children.

He gave all the books that he had written to his oldest son Shem because he loved him much more than all his sons.

Noah slept with his fathers and was buried on Mt. Lubar in the land of Ararat.

He completed 950 years in his lifetime — 19 jubilees, two weeks, and five years —

(he) who lived longer on the earth than (other) people except Enoch because of his righteousness in which he was perfect ([i.e.] in his righteousness); because Enoch’s work was something created as a testimony for the generations of eternity so that he should report all deeds throughout generation after generation on the day of judgment.

During the thirty-third jubilee, in the first year in this second week [1576], Peleg married a woman whose name was Lomna, the daughter of Sinaor. She gave birth to a son for him in the fourth year of this week [1579], and he named him Ragew, for he said: ‘Mankind has now become evil through the perverse plan to build themselves a city and tower in the land of Shinar’.

For they had emigrated from the land of Ararat toward the east, to Shinar, because in his lifetime they built the city and the tower, saying: ‘Let us ascend through it to heaven’.

They began to build. In the fourth week [1590-96] they used fire for baking and bricks served them as stones. The mud with which they were plastering was asphalt which comes from the sea and from the water springs in the land of Shinar.

They built it; they spent 43 years building it (with) complete bricks whose width was 13 (units) and whose height was a third of one (unit). Its height rose to 5433 cubits, two spans, and thirteen stades.

Then the Lord our God said to us: ‘The people here are one, and they have begun to work. Now nothing will elude them. Come, let us go down and confuse their tongues so that they do not understand one another and are dispersed into cities and nations and one plan no longer remains with them until the day of judgment’.

So the Lord went down and we went down with him to see the city and the tower which mankind had built.

He confused every sound of their tongues; no one any longer understood what the other was saying. Then they stopped building the city and the tower.

For this reason the whole land of Shinar was named Babel because there God confused all the tongues of mankind. From there they were dispersed into their cities, each according to their languages and their nations.

The Lord sent a wind at the tower and tipped it to the ground. It is now between Asshur and Babylon, in the land of Shinar. He named it the Collapse.

In the fourth week, during the first year — at its beginning — of the thirty-fourth jubilee [1639], they were dispersed from the land of Shinar.

Ham and his sons went into the land which he was to occupy, which he had acquired as his share, in the southern country.

When Canaan saw that the land of Lebanon as far as the stream of Egypt was very beautiful, he did not go to his hereditary land to the west of the sea. He settled in the land of Lebanon, on the east and west, from the border of Lebanon and on the seacoast.

His father Ham and his brothers Cush and Mizraim said to him: ‘You have settled in a land which was not yours and did not emerge for us by lot. Do not act this way, for if you do act this way both you and your children will fall in the land and be cursed with rebellion, because you have settled in rebellion and in rebellion your children will fall and be uprooted forever.

Do not settle in Shem’s residence because it emerged by their lot for Shem and his sons.

You are cursed and will be cursed more than all of Noah’s children through the curse by which we obligated ourselves with an oath before the holy judge and before our father Noah’.

But he did not listen to them. He settled in the land of Lebanon — from Hamath to the entrance of Egypt — he and his sons until the present.

For this reason that land was named the land of Canaan.

Japheth and his sons went toward the sea and settled in the land of their share. Madai saw the land near the sea but it did not please him. So he pleaded (for land) from Elam, Asshur, and Arpachshad, his wife’s brother. He has settled in the land of Medeqin near his wife’s brother until the present.

He named the place where he lived and the place where his children lived Medeqin after their father Madai.