Historia Dynastiarum.

Dyn. I.

The Ark rests on Mount Judi.

The winds dried the earth, and the Ark drifted toward Mount Qardu, which is known as Mount Judi. During this time, Noah sent out the raven to investigate the state of the earth, but it did not return because it was occupied with eating carcasses. He followed it with a dove, but it found no place to land and returned to Noah. He waited seven more days and released another dove, which returned to him in the evening with an olive leaf in its beak, and thus he knew that the waters had receded.

Noah exits the ark.

• al. [alternative reading] "He, his children, and his family"

After some days, he sent out another bird, and it did not return. He stayed until the completion of the year, and he* and his family emerged from the Ark on the twenty-seventh day of the second year.

al. "third"

He built an altar and offered a sacrifice, which God accepted. He covenanted with him that

The rainbow as a sign, etc.

He would not bring a flood upon His creation again, nor would He destroy any living creature. He made the rainbow, cast upon the clouds, the sign of His covenant. God permitted

both of them

Noah to eat the meat of sheep and livestock and to drink wine*—things that had been forbidden before the Flood. Noah began to cultivate the earth,

Noah plants a vineyard.

planted a vineyard, and drank of its juice. One day, he became intoxicated in his tent and became uncovered. His son Ham saw him and mocked him. His brothers Shem and Japheth learned of this, took a garment, covered their father, and walked backward so as not to see him. When Noah awoke and learned what he had done

He curses Canaan.

to him, he cursed Canaan, son of Ham, saying that his descendants after him would be in servitude to the nations. The curse of Noah fell upon Canaan, and the sin was that of his father,