Genesis 6- 1
- When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
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- the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
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- Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with [1] man forever, for he is mortal [2] ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
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- The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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- The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
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- The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.
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- So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth--men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air--for I am grieved that I have made them."
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- But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
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- This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.
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- Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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- Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
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- God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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- So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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- So make yourself an ark of cypress [3] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
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- This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. [4]
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- Make a roof for it and finish [5] the ark to within 18 inches [6] of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
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- I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
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- But 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.
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- You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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- Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
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- You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
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- Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
- [3] Or My spirit will not remain in
- [3] Or corrupt
- [14] The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- [15] Hebrew 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high (about 140 meters long, 23 meters wide and 13.5 meters high)
- [16] Or Make an opening for light by finishing
- [16] Hebrew a cubit (about 0.5 meter)