Genesis 6:1-Genesis 7:5 - Prelude To The Flood

¹ And it happened [that], when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them. ² Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they [were] beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose. ³ And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he [is] also flesh. And his days [shall be] one hundred and twenty years." ⁴ The Nephilim [were] upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them.

⁵ And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil. ⁶ And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and {he was grieved in his heart}. ⁷ And Yahweh said, "I will destroy humankind whom I created from upon the face of the earth, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven, for I regret that I have made them." ⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.

⁹ These [are] the generations of Noah. Noah [was] a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ And the earth [was] corrupted before God, and the earth was filled [with] violence. ¹² And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. ¹³ And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh [has] come before me, for the earth was filled [with] violence because of them. Now, look, I [am going] to destroy them [along] with the earth.

¹⁴ Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark [with] rooms, then you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside. ¹⁵ And this [is] how you must make it: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; its width fifty cubits; its height, thirty cubits. ¹⁶ You must make a roof for the ark, and {finish it to a cubit above}. And [as for] the door of the ark, you must put [it] in its side. You must make it [with] a lower, second, and a third [deck].

¹⁷ And I, behold, I [am] about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which [is] the breath of life from under the heaven; everything that [is] on the earth shall perish. ¹⁸ And I will establish my covenant with you, and you must go into the ark--you, and your sons, and your wife, and the wives of your sons with you. ¹⁹ And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every [kind] into the ark to keep [them] alive with you; they shall be male and female. ²⁰ From the birds according to their kind, and from the animals according to their kind, from every creeping thing [on] the ground according to its kind--two from every kind shall come to you to keep [them] alive. ²¹ And [as for] you, take for yourself from every kind of food that is eaten. And you must gather [it] to yourself. And it shall be for you and for them for food." ²² And Noah did according to all that God commanded him; thus he did.

¹ Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before me in this generation. ² From all the clean animals you must take for yourself {seven pairs}, a male and its mate. And from the animals that [are] not clean [you must take] two, a male and its mate, ³ as well as from the birds of heaven {seven pairs}, male and female, {to keep their kind alive} on the face of the earth. ⁴ For {within seven days} I will send rain upon the earth [for] forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground." ⁵ And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.