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THE NARRATIVE OF MOSES. From the sixth chapter of the book of Genesis.
HISTORIA MOSIS. Ex capite sexto libri Geneseos.
Cumque coepissent homines multiplicari super terram, et filias procreassent, videntes filii Dei filias hominum quod essent pulchrae, acceperunt sibi uxores ex omnibus quas elegerant. Dixitque Deus: Non permanebit spiritus meus in homine in aeternum, quia caro est: eruntque dies illius centum viginti anni. Gigantes autem erant super terram in diebus illis. Postquam enim ingressi sunt filii Dei ad filias hominum, illaeque genuerunt, isti sunt potentes a saeculo, viri famosi. Videns autem Deus quod multa malitia hominum esset in terra, et cuncta cogitatio cordis intenta esset ad malum omni tempore: poenituit eum quod hominem fecisset in terra. Et praecavens in futurum, et tactus dolore cordis intrinsecus: Delebo, inquit, hominem quem creavi, a facie terrae, ab homine usque ad animantia, a reptili usque ad volucres caeli; poenitet enim me fecisse eos.
And when men had begun to multiply upon the earth and had brought forth daughters, the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to themselves wives from among all whom they had chosen. And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh; and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and they bore children, these are the mighty ones of old, men of renown. But God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth, and that every thought of the heart was bent upon evil at all times, repented that he had made man on the earth. And taking precaution for the future, and touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, he said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — from man even to the beasts, from the creeping thing even to the birds of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.