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Noah is the tenth generation descendant of the son of Havvah and Adam,

He is the only righteous man left on the planet.

G-d tells Noah to build an ark, a flood is coming for human debauchery and mockery,

Noah rescues his family and every creature, docking at the Ararat peaks.

In gratitude for his salvation, Noah makes a sacrifice to G-d,

The L-rd swears not to destroy mankind for its sins any longer.

The story of the Flood belongs to a period of time long ago,

This story adds to the portrait of mankind.

The rainbow was chosen to symbolise the union between G-d and mankind,

as a sign of G-d’s favour after the Flood.

For before G-d, people always appear as His children,

The rainbow is a reminder of our duty to the Creator, the source of all things.

Noah receives commandments from Above, among which is the prohibition of murder and others,

For ten generations then there was one people with one language on Earth.

The people rebelled and built the Tower of Babel. G-d does not forgive for such deeds,

and each of the seventy nations has lived in its own world ever since.

Everything is accounted for, ten generations from Noah to Abram are listed by name by G-d,

By G-d’s command, Avram’s family moves from Ur-Kasdim to the land of Knaan,

The history of the Jews, G-d’s chosen people, is just beginning,

And this is the voice of G-d to the Jews and the world, not fiction and deception.