Yehuda bar Rabbi began: “They do not know and they do not understand, for their eyes are sealed from seeing, their hearts from understanding” (Isaiah 44:18). That is what is written: “The giants were on the earth in those days” (Genesis 6:4). Yehuda bar Rabbi said: Should they not have learned from their predecessors? That is a rhetorical question. Should the generation of the Flood [not have learned] from the generation of Enosh;6They began engaging in idol worship and God inundated them with the ocean water. the generation of the Dispersion from the generation of the Flood, as it is written after the Flood: “The entire earth was ….”