Genesis 6

1When human beings began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful, and they took as their wives any of them they chose.

3Then Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not remain with humankind forever, since they are flesh. Their days will be 120 years.”

4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God slept with the daughters of humankind and they bore them children. These were the heroes of old, the famous men.

5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of humankind was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil all the time.

6Yahweh regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart.

7So Yahweh said, “I will wipe off the face of the ground the human beings I have created—people and animals, creeping things and the birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”

8But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.

9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

10Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

12God looked at the earth, and it was indeed corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.

13So God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them along with the earth.

14Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and coat it with pitch inside and out.

15This is how you are to make it: the ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

16Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top. Put the door of the ark in its side, and make it with lower, second, and third decks.

17As for me, I am about to bring the flood of waters on the earth to destroy from under the heavens all flesh that has the breath of life in it. Everything on the earth will perish.

18But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

19From every living thing, from all flesh, you are to bring two of every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you. They are to be male and female.

20Of the birds according to their kinds, of the livestock according to their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to be kept alive.

21Take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it up, and it will be food for you and for them.”

22Noah did this. He did everything just as God commanded him.