And it was in the hundred and thirtieth
year of the life of Adam upon the earth,
that he again knew Eve his wife, and she
conceived and bare a son in his likeness
and in his image, and she called his
name Seth, saying, Because God has
appointed me another seed in the place
of Abel, for Cain has slain him.
-Sepher Ha Yasher
Noah pbuh appointed:
And the wife of Lamech conceived
and bare him a son at that time, at the
revolution [RHS] of the year. 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. And the child
grew up and was weaned, and he went
in the ways of his father Methuselah,
perfect and upright with God. 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.
And every man made unto himself a god,
and they robbed and plundered every
man his neighbor as well as his relative,
and they corrupted the earth, and the
earth was filled with violence. And
their judges and rulers went to the
daughters of men and took their wives by
force from their husbands according to
their choice, and the sons of men in those
days took from the cattle of the earth, the
beasts of the field and the fowls of the
air, and taught the mixture of animals of
one species with the other, in order
therewith to provoke the Lord; and God
saw the whole earth and it was corrupt,
for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon
earth, all men and all animals. And
the Lord said, I will blot out man that I
created from the face of the earth, yea
from man to the birds of the air, together
with cattle and beasts that are in the field
for I repent that I made them. And all
men who walked in the ways of the
Lord, died in those days, before the Lord
brought the evil upon man which he had
declared, for this was from the Lord, that
they should not see the evil which the
Lord spoke of concerning the sons of
men. And Noah found grace in the
sight of the Lord, and the Lord chose him
and his children to raise up seed from
them upon the face of the whole earth.
-Sepher Ha Yasher
And Abram was in Noah's house
thirty-nine years, and Abram knew the
Lord from three years old, and he went
in the ways of the Lord until the day of
his death, as Noah and his son Shem had
taught him; and all the sons of the earth
in those days greatly transgressed
against the Lord, and they rebelled
against him and they served other gods,
and they forgot the Lord who had created
them in the earth; and the inhabitants of
the earth made unto themselves, at that
time, every man his god; gods of wood
and stone which could neither speak,
hear, nor deliver, and the sons of men
served them and they became their gods.
And the king and all his servants, and
Terah with all his household were then
the first of those that served gods of
wood and stone. And Terah had
twelve gods of large size, made of wood
and stone, after the twelve months of the
year, and he served each one monthly,
and every month Terah would bring his
meat offering and drink offering to his
gods; thus did Terah all the days. And
all that generation were wicked in the
sight of the Lord, and they thus made
every man his god, but they forsook the
Lord who had created them. And
there was not a man found in those days
in the whole earth, who knew the Lord
(for they served each man his own God)
except Noah and his household, and all
those who were under his counsel knew
the Lord in those days. And Abram
the son of Terah was waxing great in
those days in the house of Noah, and no
man knew it, and the Lord was with him.
And the Lord gave Abram an
understanding heart, and he knew all the
works of that generation were vain, and
that all their gods were vain and were of
no avail. And Abram saw the sun
shining upon the earth, and Abram said
unto himself Surely now this sun that
shines upon the earth is God, and him
will I serve. And Abram served the
sun in that day and he prayed to him, and
when evening came the sun set as usual,
and Abram said within himself, Surely
this cannot be God? And Abram still
continued to speak within himself, Who
is he who made the heavens and the
earth? who created upon earth? where is
he? And night darkened over him, and
he lifted up his eyes toward the west,
north, south, and east, and he saw that
the sun had vanished from the earth, and
the day became dark. And Abram
saw the stars and moon before him, and
he said, Surely this is the God who
created the whole earth as well as man,
and behold these his servants are gods
around him: and Abram served the moon
and prayed to it all that night. And in
the morning when it was light and the
sun shone upon the earth as usual, Abram
saw all the things that the Lord God had
made upon earth. And Abram said
unto himself Surely these are not gods
that made the earth and all mankind, but
these are the servants of God, and
Abram remained in the house of Noah
and there knew the Lord and his ways'
and he served the Lord all the days of
his life, and all that generation forgot the
Lord, and served other gods of wood
and stone, and rebelled all their days.
-Sepher Ha Yasher