| 1 | And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, |
| 2 | That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. |
| 3 | And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. |
| 4 | There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown. |
| 5 | And God saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. |
| 6 | And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. |
| 7 | And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. |
| 8 | But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. |
| 9 | These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God. |
| 10 | And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. |
| 11 | The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. |
| 12 | And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. |
| 13 | And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. |
| 14 | Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. |
| 15 | And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of]: The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. |
| 16 | A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it. |
| 17 | And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. |
| 18 | But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. |
| 19 | And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female. |
| 20 | Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive. |
| 21 | And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. |
| 22 | Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. |
