Genesis 6

¹When men 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 wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

³Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

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

⁵Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

⁶Yahweh was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

⁷Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground—from man to animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the heavens—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

⁸But Noah found grace in Yahweh’s eyes.

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

¹⁰Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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

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

¹³God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹⁴Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall cover it inside and outside with pitch.

¹⁵This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

¹⁶You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

¹⁷I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh having the spirit of life from under heaven. Everything that is in the earth will die.

¹⁸But I will establish My covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

¹⁹Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

²⁰Of the birds after their kind, of the animals 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.

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

²²Thus Noah did. Everything that God commanded him, so he did.