one was Jabal: he erected tents, and
loved the life of a shepherd. But Jubal, who was born of the same mother
with him, exercised himself in music;[7] and invented the psaltery and
the harp. But Tubal, one of his children by the other wife, exceeded all
men in strength, and was very expert and famous in martial performances.
He procured what tended to the pleasures of the body by that method;
and first of all invented the art of making brass. Lamech was also
the father of a daughter, whose name was Naamah. And because he was
so skillful in matters of divine revelation, that he knew he was to be
punished for Cain's murder of his brother, he made that known to
his wives. Nay, even while Adam was alive, it came to pass that the
posterity of Cain became exceeding wicked, every one successively dying,
one after another, more wicked than the former. They were intolerable
in war, and vehement in robberies; and if any one were slow to murder
people, yet was he bold in his profligate behavior, in acting unjustly,
and doing injuries for gain.

3. Now Adam, who was the first man, and made out of the earth, [for our
discourse must now be about him,] after Abel was slain, and Cain fled
away, on account of his murder, was solicitous for posterity, and had a
vehement desire of children, he being two hundred and thirty years old;
after which time he lived other seven hundred, and then died. He had
indeed many other children,[8] but Seth in particular. As for the rest,
it would be tedious to name them; I will therefore only endeavor to give
an account of those that proceeded from Seth. Now this Seth, when he was
brought up, and came to those years in which he could discern what
was good, became a virtuous man; and as he was himself of an excellent
character, so did he leave children behind him who imitated his
virtues.[9] All these proved to be of good dispositions. They also
inhabited the same country without dissensions, and in a happy
condition, without any misfortunes falling upon them, till they died.
They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is
concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their
inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon
Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by
the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of
water, they made two pillars, [10] the one of brick, the other of stone:
they inscribed t