The Book of Jasher 16

¹🔗or when they sowed the ground in order that they might obtain food for their support, behold, thorns and thistles were produced which they did not sow.

²🔗 And still the sons of men did not turn from their evil ways, and their hands were still extended to do evil in the sight of God, and they provoked the Lord with their evil ways, and the Lord was very wroth, and repented that he had made man.

³🔗 And he thought to destroy and annihilate them and he did so.

⁴🔗 In those days when Lamech the son of Methuselah was one hundred and sixty years old, Seth the son of Adam died.

⁵🔗 And all the days that Seth lived, were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. 1 1 . And Lamech was one hundred and eighty years old when he took Ashmua, the daughter of Elishaa the son of Enoch his uncle, and she conceived.

⁶🔗 And at that time the sons of men sowed the ground, and a little food was produced, yet the sons of men did not turn from their evil ways, and they trespassed and rebelled against God.

⁷🔗 And the wife of Lamech conceived and bare him a son at that time, at the revolution of the year.

⁸🔗 And Methuselah called his name Noah, saying, The earth was in his days at rest and free from corruption, and Lamech his father called his name Menachem, saying, This one shall comfort us in our works and miserable toil in the earth, which God had cursed.

⁹🔗 And the child grew up and was weaned, and he went in the ways of his father Methuselah, perfect and upright with God.

¹⁰🔗 And all the sons of men departed from the ways of the Lord in those days as they multiplied upon the face of the earth with sons and daughters, and they taught one another their evil practices and they continued sinning against the Lord. 17.