Genesis 6:1-20 ▼

1 And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them,

2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of mankind, and they were good. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

3 And YHWH said, “My Spirit shall not strive with mankind forever, for indeed he is flesh. And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were from of old, men of the name.

5 And YHWH saw that the wickedness of mankind on the earth was great and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day.

6 And YHWH regretted that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

7 And YHWH said, “I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the ground—from mankind to beast, to crawling thing, to the bird of the heavens—for I regret that I have made them!”

8 And Noah found favor in the eyes of YHWH.

9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generations; Noah walked with God.

10 And Noah begat three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 And the earth was corrupt before the face of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before My face, for the earth is filled with violence from their faces. And behold, I am destroying them along with the earth!

14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make rooms in the ark and you shall cover it inside and outside with a covering.

15 And this is how you shall make it: Three hundred cubits is the length of the ark, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height.

16 You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above, and you shall set the door of the ark in its side. With lower, second, and third decks you shall make it.

17 And I—behold, I, am bringing the flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh that has in it the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything that is on the earth shall perish!

18 And I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall go into the ark—you and your sons and your wife and the wives of your sons with you.

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

20 And from the bird according to its kind, and the animal according to its kind, and from every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind shall come to you to be kept alive.