6:1  Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters became born to them,

6:2  that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men appeared beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

6:3  Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also consists of flesh; nevertheless his days shall number one hundred and twenty years."

6:4  The Nephilim dwelled on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those people identified them as mighty men who existed of old, men of renown.

6:5  Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man had become great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart created only evil continually.

6:6  The LORD felt sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He felt grieved in His heart.

6:7  The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I regret that I have made them."

6:8  But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

6:9  These constitute the records of the generations of Noah. Noah we acknowledge as a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

6:10  Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

6:11  Now the earth became corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth filled with violence.

6:12  God looked on the earth, and behold, it grew corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

6:13  Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth fills with violence because of them; and behold, I will soon destroy them with the earth.

6:14  "Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

6:15  "I will instruct you how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

6:16  "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

6:17  "Behold, I, even I bring the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh which has the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that lives on the earth shall perish.

6:18  "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

6:19  "And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall appear male and female.

6:20  "Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.

6:21  "As for you, take for yourself some of all food which I have made edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall serve as for food for you and for them."

6:22  Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.