[1] And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had
daughters, [2] The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and
they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them. [3]
And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only
flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years. [4]
There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and
after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men,
they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men
of great name. [5] And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the
earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil. [6] And the Lord
had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his
heart. [7] And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from
the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth
and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them. [8] But
Noah had grace in the eyes of God. [9] These are the generations of Noah.
Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the
ways of God. [10] And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. [11] And
the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways. [12] And God,
looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had
become evil on the earth. [13] And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh
has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an
end to them with the earth. [14] Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood
with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out. [15] And
this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long,
fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. [16] You are to put a window in
the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are
to make it with a lower and second and third floors. [17] For truly, I will
send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under
the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the
earth will come to an end. [18] But with you I will make an agreement; and
you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons'
wives with you. [19] And you will take with you into the ark two of every
sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and
female. [20] Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of
living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them
from destruction. [21] And make a store of every sort of food for yourself
and them. [22] And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.