- Coriantum also reigns righteously, but grows old without any children.
- Coriantum’s wife dies, Coriantum remarries, has many children, and lives to be 142 years old.
- One of Corianum’s sons, Com, becomes king; Com has, among other children, a son named Heth.
- Heth begins to embrace the secret evil pacts of the past, hungers for power, and kills his father Com, taking his place as king.
- Prophets come among the people and warn them to repent, warning them of a famine, but most people reject and harass the prophets.
- The land is stricken with a dearth, the population declines rapidly, and venomous snakes attack people and scatter livestock.
- The Lord causes the snakes to form a barricade to block the people off from the southern land.
- The people try to follow the path of the migrating livestock, scavenging carcasses along the way.
- Seeing that their sins brought this upon them the people begin to repent; soon after, rain begins to fall, and fruit grows back in the northern region.