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1 When
men began to
multiply on the
surface of the
ground, and
daughters were
born to them,
2 God’s sons
saw that men’s
daughters were
beautiful, and
they took any
that they wanted
for themselves
as wives.
3 The
LORD said, “My
Spirit will not
strive with man
forever, because
he also is
flesh; so his
days will be
one hundred twenty
years.”
4 The
Nephilim
were in the earth
in those days,
and also after
that, when God’s
sons came in
to men’s daughters
and had children
with them. Those
were the mighty
men who were
of old, men
of renown.
5 The
LORD saw that
the wickedness of
man was great
in the earth, and
that every
imagination of the
thoughts of man’s
heart was
continually only
evil.
6 The
LORD was sorry
that he had
made man on
the earth, and it
grieved him in
his heart.
7 The
LORD said, “I will
destroy man whom
I have created
from the surface
of the ground—man, along with animals,
creeping things,
and birds of
the sky—for
I am sorry
that I have
made them.”
8 But
Noah found favor
in the LORD’s
eyes.
9 This
is the history
of the generations
of Noah: Noah
was a righteous
man, blameless
among the people
of his time.
Noah walked
with God.
10 Noah
became the father
of three sons:
Shem, Ham, and
Japheth.
11 The earth
was corrupt
before God, and
the earth was
filled with
violence.
12 God saw
the earth, and saw
that it was
corrupt, for all
flesh had
corrupted their
way on the earth.
13 God said to
Noah, “I will bring
an end to
all flesh, for
the earth is
filled with
violence through
them. Behold, I
will destroy them
and the earth.
14 Make
a ship of
gopher wood. You
shall make rooms
in the ship,
and shall seal it
inside and outside
with pitch.
15 This
is how you
shall make it.
The length of
the ship shall
be three
hundred cubits,
its width
fifty cubits, and
its height
thirty cubits.
16 You
shall make a roof
in the ship,
and you shall
finish it to
a cubit upward.
You shall set
the door of
the ship in
its side. You
shall make it
with lower, second,
and third levels.
17 I,
even I, will bring
the flood of
waters on this
earth, to destroy
all flesh having
the breath of
life from under
the sky.
Everything that is
in the earth
will die.
18 But I
will establish my
covenant with you.
You shall come into
the ship, you,
your sons,
your wife, and
your sons’ wives
with you.
19 Of
every living thing
of all flesh,
you shall bring
two of every sort
into the ship,
to keep them
alive with you.
They shall be
male and female.
20 Of
the birds after
their kind, of
the livestock after
their kind, of
every creeping
thing of the ground
after its kind,
two of every sort
will come to
you, to keep
them alive.
21 Take
with you some
of all food
that is eaten,
and gather it
to yourself; and
it will be
for food for
you, and for
them.”
22 Thus
Noah did. He
did all that God
commanded him.