Genesis 6
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And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the
ground, and daughters have been born to them, 2 and sons of God see the
daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all
whom they have chosen. 3 And Jehovah saith, `My
Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:'
and his days have been an hundred and twenty years. 4 The fallen ones were in
the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto
daughters of men, and they have borne to them--they [are] the heroes, who, from
of old, [are] the men of name. 5 And Jehovah seeth
that abundant [is] the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day; 6 and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself--unto His heart. 7 And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the
face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of
the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.' 8 And Noah found grace
in the eyes of Jehovah. 9 These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous
man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked
habitually. 10 And Noah begetteth three sons, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth. 11 And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is
filled [with] violence. 12 And God seeth the earth,
and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the
earth. 13 And God said to Noah, `An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for
the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am
destroying them with the earth. 14 `Make for thyself an *ark of *gopher-wood;
rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without
with cypress; 15 and this [is] that which thou dost with it: three hundred
cubits [is] the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits
its height; 16 a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost
restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its
side,--lower, second, and third [stories] dost thou make it. 17 `And I, lo, I
am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which
[is] a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that [is] in the earth doth
expire. 18 `And I have established My *covenant with
thee, and thou hast come in unto the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and
thy son's wives with thee; 19 and of all that liveth,
of all flesh, two of every [sort] thou dost bring in unto the ark, to keep
alive with thee; male and female are they. 20 Of the fowl after its kind, and
of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its
kind, two of every [sort] they come in unto thee, to keep alive. 21 `And thou,
take to thyself of all food that is eaten; and thou hast gathered unto thyself,
and it hath been to thee and to them for food.' 22 And Noah doth according to
all that God hath commanded him; so hath he done.