Wickedness in The World

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Wickedness in the World

1When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to
them, 2the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married
any of them they chose. 3Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans
forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

4The 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.

5The 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 all the time. 6The Lord
regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7So
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.” 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Noah and the Flood

9This 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. 10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12God saw how corrupt
the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13So 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. 14So make yourself an ark of
cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15This is how you are to
build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
16Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door
in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17I 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. 18But 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. 19You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them
alive with you. 20Two 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. 21You are to take
every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

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