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Chapter IV.
Then Noah first of all
erected an altar to God, and offered sacrifices from among the
birds.252
Immediately afterwards he was blessed by
God along with his sons, and received a command that he should not eat
blood, or shed the blood of any human being, because Cain, having no
such precept, had stained the first age of the world. Accordingly, the
sons of Noah were alone left in the then vacant world; for he had
three, Shem, Ham, and Japhet. But Ham, because he had mocked his father
when senseless with wine, incurred his father’s curse. His son,
Chas by name, begat the giant Nebroth,253
| 253 This is the
Nimrod of the A.V.; he is called Nebrod by the LXX. We
have, for the most part, given the proper names as they appear in the
edition of Halm. | by
whom the city of Babylon is said to have been built. Many other towns
are related to have been founded at that time, which I do not here
intend to name one by one. But although the human race was now
multiplied, and men occupied different places and islands, nevertheless
all made use of one tongue, as long as the multitude, afterwards to be
scattered through the whole world, kept itself in one body. These,
after the manner of human nature, formed the design of obtaining a
great name by constructing some great work before they should be
separated from one another. They therefore attempted to build a tower
which should reach up to heaven. But by the ordination of God, in order
that the labors of those engaged in the work might be hindered, they
began to speak in a kind of languages very different from their
accustomed form of speech, while no one understood the others. This led
to their being all the more readily dispersed, because, regarding each
other as foreigners, they were easily induced to separate. And the
world was so divided to the sons of Noah, that Shem occupied the East,
Japhet the West, and Ham the intermediate parts. After this, till the
time of Abraham,254
| 254 Such is the form
of the name as given by Halm, though Abram would be
expected. | their genealogy
presented nothing very remarkable or worthy of
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