1People began to grow many in number on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them.
2The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. They took wives for themselves, any that they chose.
3And the LORD said, "My spirit will not always strive with man, for he also is flesh. His days will be a hundred and twenty years."
4There were giants on the earth in those days, and also after that. The sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown.
5And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth. Every plan his heart thought of was only evil, all the time.
6And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth. It grieved him in his heart.
7And the LORD said, "I will wipe man, whom I have created, off the face of the earth. Man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the birds of the air. For I am sorry that I have made them."
8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9This is the story of Noah. Noah was a just man, blameless among the people of his time, and Noah walked with God.
11The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12And God looked at the earth, and look, it was corrupt. For all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.
13And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Look, I will destroy them along with the earth."
14"Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch."
15"This is how you are to make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits."
16"You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top. Set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third floors."
17"And look, I myself am bringing a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh that has the breath of life in it from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die."
18"But with you I will establish my covenant. You shall come into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you."
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 be male and female."
20"Birds after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth after its kind. Two of every kind shall come to you, to be kept alive."
21"And take for yourself some of all the food that is eaten, and gather it to you. It shall be food for you and for them."
22Noah did this. He did everything just as God commanded him.