Genesis 6:1-9 ▼

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

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

3 Then the LORD said, |My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.|

4 The Nephilim were 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 were the mighty men who [were] of old, men of renown.

5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

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 am sorry that I have made them.|

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

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