Genesis 6

¹Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

²the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

³So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

⁴The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

⁵Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

⁶And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

⁷So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

⁸Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

⁹This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

¹⁰And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

¹²And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

¹³Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

¹⁴Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

¹⁵And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

¹⁶You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

¹⁷And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

¹⁸But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

¹⁹And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

²⁰Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

²¹You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”

²²So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

Genesis 6

¹And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

²and sons of God see the daughters of men that they are fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

³And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in manto the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

⁴The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to themthey are the heroes, who, from of old, are the men of name.

⁵And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

⁶and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himselfunto His heart.

⁷And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'

⁸And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁹These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

¹⁰And Noah begetteth three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence.

¹²And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

¹³And God said to Noah, `An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

¹⁴`Make for thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress;

¹⁵and this is that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits is the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;

¹⁶a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its side, lower, second, and third stories dost thou make it.

¹⁷`And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which is a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that is in the earth doth expire.

¹⁸`And I have established My covenant with thee, and thou hast come in unto the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy son's wives with thee;

¹⁹and of all that liveth, of all flesh, two of every sort thou dost bring in unto the ark, to keep alive with thee; male and female are they.

²⁰Of the fowl after its kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort they come in unto thee, to keep alive.

²¹`And thou, take to thyself of all food that is eaten; and thou hast gathered unto thyself, and it hath been to thee and to them for food.'

²²And Noah doth according to all that God hath commanded him; so hath he done.