Genesis 6
1 Human beings began to multiply over the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them.
2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of human beings were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves from among all those they chose.
3 The LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, since they too are flesh; their days will be 120 years.”
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went in to the daughters of human beings and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown.
5 The LORD saw that human wickedness was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil all the time.
6 The LORD regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.
7 The LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the ground the human beings I have created, from human beings to livestock, crawling creatures, and birds of the sky, because I regret having made them.”
8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.
10 Noah fathered 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 it was corrupt, because every living being had corrupted its way on the earth.
13 God said to Noah, “The end of all living beings has come before me, because the earth is filled with violence because of them; and I am going to destroy them along with the earth.
14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make compartments in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
15 This is how you shall make it: the ark shall be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
16 Make an opening for light in the ark, and finish it one cubit from the top; place the ark’s door in its side; make it with a lower deck, a second, and a third.
17 And I am going to bring the flood, waters upon the earth, to destroy every living being under the sky that has the breath of life; everything on the earth will die.
18 But with you I will establish my covenant; you will enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
19 And from every living thing, from every living being, you shall bring two of each into the ark to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
20 From the birds according to their kind, from the livestock according to their kind, and from every creature that crawls on the ground according to its kind, two of each will come to you to be kept alive.
21 And you, take for yourself some of every kind of food that is eaten and store it; it will be food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did so; just as God commanded him, so he did.
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