Genesis 6

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Corruption on the Earth

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

¹And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the face of the ground 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.

²that the sons of God saw the daughters of mankind, and they were good. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

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

³And YHWH said, “My Spirit shall not strive with mankind forever, for indeed he is flesh. And his days shall be a hundred and twenty 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.

⁴The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were from of old, men of the name.

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.

⁵And YHWH saw that the wickedness of mankind on the earth was great and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day.

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

⁶And YHWH regretted that He had made mankind 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.”

⁷And YHWH said, “I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the ground—from mankind to beast, to crawling thing, to the bird of the heavens—for I regret that I have made them!”

Noah’s Favor with God

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

⁸And Noah found favor in the eyes of YHWH.

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

⁹These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generations; Noah walked with God.

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

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

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

¹¹And the earth was corrupt before the face of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

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

¹²And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Preparing the Ark

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.

¹³And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before My face, for the earth is filled with violence from their faces. And behold, I am destroying them along with the earth!

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

¹⁴Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make rooms in the ark and you shall cover it inside and outside with a covering.

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

¹⁵And this is how you shall make it: Three hundred cubits is the length of the ark, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height.

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

¹⁶You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above, and you shall set the door of the ark in its side. With lower, second, and third decks you shall make it.

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.

¹⁷And I—behold, I, am bringing the flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh that has in it the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything that is on the earth shall 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.

¹⁸And I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall go into the ark—you and your sons and your wife and the wives of your sons with you.

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

¹⁹And from every living thing, from all flesh, two of every kind you shall bring into the ark to keep them alive with you; male and female they shall be.

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

²⁰And from the bird according to its kind, and the animal according to its kind, and from every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind shall 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.”

²¹And you shall take for yourself from all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself, and it shall be for you and for them for food.”

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

²²And Noah did according to all that God had commanded him; so he did.