Kebra Nagast

He spared them not, but made angels with severity. them to dwell in a state of judgement, and they were fettered until the Great Day/' 1 The word of God conquered, Who had fashioned Adam in His likeness (or, form), and those who had reviled and made a laughingstock of Adam were conquered. And the daughters of Cain with whom the angels had companied conceived, but they were unable to bring forth their children, and they died. And of the children who were in their wombs some died, and some came forth ; having split open the bellies of their mothers they came forth by their navels. And when they were grown up and reached man's estate they became giants, whose height reached unto the clouds ; and for their sakes and the sakes of sinners the wrath of God became quiet, and He said, " My spirit shall only rest on them for one hundred and twenty years, and I will destroy them with the waters of the Flood,"- them and all sinners who have not believed the word of God. And to those who believed the word of their fathers, and did His Will, no injury came from the waters of the Flood, but He delivered " If thou believest My word thou canst them, saying, " save from the Flood." And Noah said, thyself O Lord, I believe Thy word, make me to know by what means I can be saved." And God said unto him, " Thou canst be saved from the water by wood." And Noah said, " How, O Lord ? " And God said unto " Make thyself a four-sided ark, and build it with him, the work of the carpenter, and make for it three storeys 3 And Noah inside, and go into it with all thy house." believed the word of God, and made [the ark], and was saved. Now hearken ye unto me, and I will explain to you concerning this thing. When God gave the command He could have given unto Noah a wing like the eagle and transported him to the country of the living, with 1 2 Peter ii, 4. 1 88 * Genesis vi, 2-4. 3 Genesis vi, 14 ff.