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Genesis 6

¹Now when human beings began to get numerous all over the land, and they gave birth to daughters, ²the sons of God {or "sons of the gods" or "divine beings} saw the daughters of the human beings. They saw that they were good looking, and they took wives for themselves from whomever they chose. ³Then YHWH said, "My spirit will not always work among human beings, considering that they are flesh. Their lifespan will be 120 years." ⁴There were giants {Nephilim} on the earth in those days, and also after the sons of God went to the daughters of the human beings and bore children by them. These were heroes, the famous men of ancient times.

⁵And YHWH saw that the evil of humanity was great on the land, and the whole thrust of human thought was only evil continually. ⁶And YHWH was sorry that he had made humanity on the land, and it made him sad in his heart. ⁷And YHWH said, "I will wipe humanity which I created from the face of the ground, from human beings to cattle, to creeping things, to the birds in the sky, because I'm sorry that I made them!" ⁸But Noah found favor in the eyes of YHWH.

⁹These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, who was perfect in his generation. Noah walked with God. ¹⁰And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. ¹¹Now the earth became corrupt before God, and it was filled with violence. ¹²And God saw that the earth was corrupt, because all flesh had corrupted its behavior upon the earth.

¹³And God said to Noah: "The end of all flesh has come before me, because the land is filled with violence because of them, so I'm going to wipe them off the earth. ¹⁴Make for yourself an ark of gofer wood, with rooms shall you make it, and cover it inside and out with pitch. ¹⁵You are to make it this way: The ark will be 300 cubits long and 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. ¹⁶You will make a roof for the ark and complete it a cubit above, and you shall make a door of the ark in its side. Make it with a lower, second and third deck. ¹⁷And as for me, I am bringing the flood of water upon the land to destroy all flesh that has in it a living spirit under the whole heavens. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

¹⁸And I will raise up my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark, you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives.

¹⁹And from all life, from all flesh, you shall bring two from all of them into the ark, to let them survive with you. They shall be male and female. ²⁰From the birds according to their kinds and from the cattle according to their kinds, from all things that creep on the ground according to their kinds, two from every kind shall come to you so they may survive. ²¹And as for you, take for yourself from all the food which is eaten, and gather it to you and it will be for you and for them to eat. ²²And Noah did according to all that God commanded him.

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