Genesis 6

1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

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.”

And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and 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.

There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

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.

And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

6 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was 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.”

And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

8 But Noah found favor in the LORD’s eyes.

But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.

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.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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

11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

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

And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil 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.

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with 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.

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

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.

And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

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.

You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.

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.

For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

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.

But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and 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.

And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will 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.

Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

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.”

And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.

And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.

The World is Destroyed by Water