He is the greatest and choicest of the works of God.

He was placed in a paradise near the banks of the Euphrates, and was very wise and very pure; but, having tasted of the forbidden fruit, and thereby broken the commandment given to him, he was condemned to labor and to death.
The descendants of the first man, undeterred by his punishment, pursued such a career of wickedness that it became necessary to destroy them.

A deluge, therefore, flooded the face of the earth, and rose over the tops of the mountains.

Having accomplished its purpose, the water was dried up by a wind.
From this catastrophe Noah and his three sons, with their wives, were saved in an ark.

Of these sons, Shem remained in Asia and repeopled it.
Ham peopled Africa; Japhet, Europe.