Genesis 6:1-9 ▼

1 When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,

2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

3 And the LORD said, “ My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever , because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward , when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

5 When the LORD saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,

6 the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

7 Then the LORD said, “ I will wipe off from the face of the earth mankind, whom I created, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky  — for I regret that I made them.”

8 Noah, however, found favor in the sight of the LORD.

9 These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.