Chapter 6
1Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
2the sons of God saw the daughters of men that [were] beautiful and they took as wives whomever they chose.
3So AO said, “My Spirit {will} not contend with man forever, for he [is] mortal; his days {shall} be 120 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.
5Then AO 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.
6And AO regretted the time that He had made man on the earth and He was grieved in His heart.
7So AO said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth—every man, beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
8Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of AO.
9This [is] the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
10And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God [and] full of violence.
12And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt for all living creatures had corrupted their ways on the earth.
13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me because the earth is full of violence through them. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
14Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms in the ark and coat it inside and out with pitch.
15And this is how you are to build it: The ark [is to be] 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high.
16You are to make a roof for the ark, finish [its walls] a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark and build lower, middle and upper {decks}.
17And behold I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature that has the breath of life under the heavens. Everything on the earth will 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.
19And of every living creature, you are to bring two into the ark—to keep [them] alive with you, male and female.
20Two of every kind of bird and animal [and] crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
21You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather [it] for yourselves [and] for [the animals].”
22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.