Génesis 6
1 Aconteció que cuando la humanidad comenzó a multiplicarse sobre la superficie de la tierra, y les nacieron hijas,
When people began to become very numerous all over the earth, and many daughters were born to them,
2 los hijos de ʼElohim vieron que las hijas del hombre eran hermosas, y tomaron para ellos mujeres de entre todas las que les gustaron.
some of the men who (belonged to/believed in) God saw that some of the women who did not (belong to/believe in) God were very beautiful. So they took whichever ones they chose to become their wives.
3 Entonces Yavé dijo: Mi Espíritu no contenderá para siempre con el hombre, pues ciertamente él es carne, y sus días serán 120 años.
Then Yahweh said, “[I will] not [allow] my Spirit to keep people alive forever (OR, the breath of life will not remain in people forever). They will die eventually. They will live not more than 120 years before they die (OR, there will be only 120 more years before they die).”
4 En aquellos días (y también después) los nefileos estaban en la tierra, pues cada vez que los hijos de ʼElohim se unían a las hijas de los humanos, les engendraban hijos. Estos fueron los héroes que desde la antigüedad fueron varones de renombre.
There were [giants called] Nephils who lived on the earth at that time and later. During that time [some of the Nephil] men who (belonged to/believed in) God had sex [EUP] with women who did not (belong to/believe in) God, and they gave birth to children. The Nephils were considered to be heroic fighters, and they became famous.
5 Entonces Yavé vio que la perversidad del hombre se multiplicó en la tierra, y que toda forma de pensamiento de su corazón era solamente el mal continuamente.
Yahweh saw that people on the earth had become very wicked, and that everything they thought about evil things continually.
6 Yavé sintió pesar de haber hecho al ser humano en la tierra y se entristeció su corazón.
Yahweh was sorry that he had made people.
7 Y Yavé dijo: Borraré de sobre la superficie de la tierra a los seres que creé, desde el humano hasta la bestia, el reptil y las aves de los cielos, pues me pesa haberlos hecho.
So he said, “I will completely destroy the people I made. I will also destroy all the animals and the creatures that scurry across the ground and the birds. None of them will remain on the earth, because I regret that I made them.”
8 Pero Noé halló gracia ante los ojos de Yavé.
But Yahweh was pleased with Noah.
9 Estos son los descendientes de Noé. Noé, varón justo, fue sin defecto en sus generaciones. Noé andaba con ʼElohim.
This is why: Noah was a man who always acted in a righteous way. No one who lived at that time could criticize him about anything. Noah lived in close fellowship with God.
10 Noé engendró tres hijos: Sem, Cam y Jafet.
Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 Se corrompió la tierra en la Presencia de ʼElohim, y se llenó la tierra de violencia.
At that time God considered that everyone else on earth was very wicked, and everywhere on the earth, people [MTY] were acting cruelly and violently toward each other.
12 ʼElohim vio la tierra, y ciertamente estaba corrompida, porque toda carne corrompió su camino sobre la tierra.
God was dismayed when he saw how evil people [MTY] were, because everyone (OR, all living creatures) had begun to behave in an evil way.
13 Y ʼElohim dijo a Noé: Decidí el fin de todo ser viviente. Porque la tierra se llenó de violencia a causa de ellos. Mira, Yo los destruyo con la tierra.
So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy everyone, because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as everything else on the earth.
14 Haz un arca de madera de ciprés. Harás compartimientos al arca y la calafatearás con brea por dentro y por fuera.
[I want you to] make for yourself a large boat from cypress wood. Make rooms inside it. Cover the outside and the inside with tar [to make it (waterproof/so that water cannot get in and sink the boat]).
15 Y de esta manera la harás: 135 metros será la longitud del arca, 22,5 metros su anchura, y 13,5 metros su altura.
This is the size you must make it: It shall be (150 yards/135 meters) long, (25 yards/22.5 meters) wide, and (15 yards/13.5 meters) high.
16 Harás una claraboya al arca y la terminarás a 45 centímetros de la parte alta. Pondrás una puerta en un lado del arca, y le harás planta baja, segunda y tercera.
Make a roof for the boat. Leave a space of about (18 in./.5 meter) between the sides and the roof to let air and light enter (OR, the middle of the roof should be 18 inches higher than the sides). Build the boat with three decks inside, and put a door in one side.
17 Y mira, yo traigo un diluvio de aguas sobre la tierra para destruir toda carne en la cual hay aliento de vida bajo el cielo. Todo lo que hay en la tierra perecerá.
Listen carefully! I am about to cause a flood to occur that will destroy every creature that lives beneath the sky. Everything on the earth will die.
18 Pero estableceré mi Pacto contigo. Entrarás en el arca, tú y tus hijos, tu esposa y las esposas de tus hijos.
But I will make an agreement with you(sg): You and your wife, your sons and their wives will enter the boat.
19 También harás entrar en el arca dos de cada ser viviente de toda carne para que sobrevivan contigo. Serán macho y hembra.
And I want to save some of all kinds of creatures. So you must also bring two of all living creatures, a male and a female, into the boat with you, so that their species also may remain alive.
20 De las aves, según su especie. De las bestias, según su especie. De todo reptil del suelo, según su especie. Dos de cada especie irán a ti para sobrevivir.
Two of every kind of creature will come to [in order that by your putting them in the boat] you will keep them alive. They will include two of each kind of bird and each kind of animal and each kind of creature that scurries across the ground.
21 Y toma para ti de todo alimento para comer y almacénalo contigo, pues será sustento para ti y para ellos.
You must also take some of every kind of food that you and all these animals will need, and store it in the boat.”
22 Noé hizo conforme a todo lo que le ordenó ʼElohim. Así hizo.
So Noah did everything that God told him to do.
The World is Destroyed by Water
