When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful and they married any of them they chose

then the Lord said my spirit will not contend with humans forever for they are mortal their days will be

120 years the Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God went to the

daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the

heroes of old, men of renown. The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had

become on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil at the time.

The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth and his heart was deeply troubled.

So the Lord said, I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created and with

them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground for I regret that I have

made them.

But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord.

This is the account of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time,

and he walked faithfully with God.

Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.

God saw how corrupt the earth had become,

for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

So God said to Noah, I'm going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.

I'm surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

So make yourself an arc of cypress wood, make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

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