spoken]- because that Lamech had spoken them the secret unto his wives & they rebelled against him & declared these things abroad & had not compassion wherefore Lamech was dispised & cast out & came not among the sons of men lest he should die & thus the works of darkness began to prevail among all the sons of men & God cursed the Earth with a sore curse & he was angery with the wicked with all the sons of men whome he had made for they would not hearken unto his voice nor believe on his only begotten son even him which he declared should come in the meridian of time which was prepared from before the foundation of the world & thus the Gospel began to be preached from the beginning being declared by Holy Angels sent forth from the presence of God & by his own voice by the gift of the Holy Ghost & thus all things were confirmed & the Gospel preached & a decree sent forth tha[t] it should be in the world until the end thereof & thus it was amen & Adam hearkened unto the voice of God & called upon his Sons to repent & Adam knew his wife again & she bear a son & he called his name Seth & Adam glorified the name of God for he said god hath appointed me an other seed in stead of Abel whom Cain slew & God revealed himself unto Seth & he rebelled not but offered an exce[p]table sacrifice like unto his brother Abel & to him also was born a s[on] & he called his name Enos & then began these men to call upon the na[me] of the Lord & the Lord blessed them & a book of Remembrance was kept in the which was rebelled recorded in the Language of Ada[m] for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write with the finger of inspiration | & by them their children were taught to read [&] write having a Language which was pure & undefiled now this wa[s] in the beginning which shall be in the end of the world now this Prophecy Adam spake as he was moved upon & a genealogy was kept of the Children of God & this was the Book of the generations of Ad[am] Saying in a <​the​> day that God created man in the likeness of God made he him in the image of his own body male & female Created he them & blesed them & called their name Adam in the day when they we[re] created & became living souls in the Land upon the footstool of God & Adam lived 130 years & begat a Son in his own likeness after his ow[n] image & called his name Seth & the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were 800 years & he begat many sons & daughters & all the days that Adam lived were 930 years & he died Seth lived 105 years & begat En[os] & he prophesied <​in​> all his days & taught Enos in the ways of God wherefore Enos prophesied also & Seth lived after he begat Enos 807 years & begat man[y] sons & daughters & the Children of me[n] were numerous upon all the land & in these days Satan had great dominion among men & raged in their hearts & from thenceforth came wars & bloodshed & a mans hand was against his own brother in administering death because of seceret works seeking <​for​> power & all the days of Seth were 912 years & he died & Enos & the residue of the people of God came out from the land which was called Shu Shulon after his own son & dwelt in a land of promise which he called after his own Son whom he had named Cainan & Eanos lived after he begat Canaan 815 years & begat many sons & daughters & all the days of Enos were 905 years & he died & thus it was amen—— & Canaan lived 70 years & begat Mahalaleeal & Canaan lived after he bega[t] Mahalaleeal 880 years & begat sons & daughters & all the days [of] [p. 9]