Chapter 6
1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground , and daughters were born to them ,
2 God’s sons saw that men ’s daughters were beautiful , and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
3 The LORD said, " My Spirit will not strive with man forever , because he also is flesh ; so his days will be one 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 .
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 .
6 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him 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 ."
8 But Noah found favour in the LORD ’s eyes .
9 This is the history of the generations of Noah : Noah was a righteous man , blameless amongst the people of his time . Noah walked with God.
10 Noah became the father of 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 saw that it was corrupt , for all flesh had corrupted their way 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.
14 Make a ship of gopher wood . You shall make rooms in the ship , and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch .
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.
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.
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 ."
22 Thus Noah did . He did all that God commanded him .