Kebra Nagast

Concerning Noah the ass into the mare, and the mule came into being, which God had not commanded even like those who give their children who are believers unto those who deny God, and their offspring become the seed of the filthy Gomorraites, one half of them being of good and one half of them of evil seed. And as for those who do [this] wickedness, their judgment is ready, and their error in lasting. 7. CONCERNING NOAH Now Noah was a righteous man. He feared God, and kept the righteousness and the Law which his fathers had declared unto him now Noah was the tenth generation from Adam and he kept in remembrance and did what was good, and he preserved his body from fornication, and he admonished his children, bidding them not to mingle with the children of Cain, the arrogant tyrant, the divider of the kingdom, [who] walked in the counsel of the Devil, who maketh evil to And he taught them everything that God flourish. hated pride, boastfulness of speech, self-adulation, calumniation, false accusation, and the swearing of false oaths. And besides these things, in the wickedness of their uncleanness, which was unlawful and against rule, man wrought pollution with man, and woman worked with woman the abominable thing. 8. CONCERNING THE FLOOD And this thing was evil before God, and He destroyed them with the water of the Flood, which was colder than ice. He opened the doors of heaven, and the and He opened cataracts of the Flood poured down ; the fountains that were under the earth, and the fountains of the Flood appeared on the earth. And the sinners were blotted out, for they reaped the fruit And with them perished all and creeping things, for they were all created for the gratification of Adam, and for his glory, some of their punishment. beasts