th the
rest all sorts of living creatures, the male and his female, for the
preservation of their kinds; and others of them by sevens. Now this ark
had firm walls, and a roof, and was braced with cross beams, so that it
could not be any way drowned or overborne by the violence of the water.
And thus was Noah, with his family, preserved. Now he was the tenth from
Adam, as being the son of Lamech, whose father was Mathusela; he was the
son of Enoch, the son of Jared; and Jared was the son of Malaleel, who,
with many of his sisters, were the children of Cainan, the son of Enos.
Now Enos was the son of Seth, the son of Adam.

3. This calamity happened in the six hundredth year of Noah's
government, [age,] in the second month, [14] called by the Macedonians
Dius, but by the Hebrews Marchesuan: for so did they order their year
in Egypt. But Moses appointed that u Nisan, which is the same with
Xanthicus, should be the first month for their festivals, because he
brought them out of Egypt in that month: so that this month began
the year as to all the solemnities they observed to the honor of God,
although he preserved the original order of the months as to selling and
buying, and other ordinary affairs. Now he says that this flood began
on the twenty-seventh [seventeenth] day of the forementioned month;
and this was two thousand six hundred and fifty-six [one thousand six
hundred and fifty-six] years from Adam, the first man; and the time
is written down in our sacred books, those who then lived having noted
down,[15] with great accuracy, both the births and deaths of illustrious
men.

4. For indeed Seth was born when Adam was in his two hundred and
thirtieth year, who lived nine hundred and thirty years. Seth begat Enos
in his two hundred and fifth year; who, when he had lived nine hundred
and twelve years, delivered the government to Cainan his son, whom he
had in his hundred and ninetieth year. He lived nine hundred and five
years. Cainan, when he had lived nine hundred and ten years, had his
son Malaleel, who was born in his hundred and seventieth year. This
Malaleel, having lived eight hundred and ninety-five years, died,
leaving his son Jared, whom he begat when he was in his hundred and
sixty-fifth year. He lived nine hundred and sixty-two years; and then
his son Enoch succeeded him, who was born when his father was one
hundred and sixty-two years old. Now he, when he had lived three hundred
and sixty-five years, depart