Genesis 6:1-12 ▼

1 And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:

2 And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.

3 And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.

4 But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.

5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day.

6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.

7 And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.

8 But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.

9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.

10 Noah begat three sonnes, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie.

12 And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.