Genesis 6
New International Version - Genesis 6 << | >> 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 6:1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 6:3 Then the Lord said, 'My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.' 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days-and also afterward-when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. 6:5 The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6:6 The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 6:7 So the Lord said, 'I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth-men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air-for I am grieved that I have made them.' 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 6:9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 6:10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 6:11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 6:12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 6:13 So God said to Noah, 'I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 6:14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 6:15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. 6:16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 6:17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark-you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 6:19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 6:20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 6:21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.' 6:22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.