Genesis, 6

1. When people began being numerous on earth, and daughters had been born to them,

1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2. the sons of God, looking at the women, saw how beautiful they were and married as many of them as they chose.

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. Yahweh said, 'My spirit cannot be indefinitely responsible for human beings, who are only flesh; let the time allowed each be a hundred and twenty years.'

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. The Nephilim were on earth in those days (and even afterwards) when the sons of God resorted to the women, and had children by them. These were the heroes of days gone by, men of renown.

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. Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long.

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. Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart.

6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7. And Yahweh said, 'I shall rid the surface of the earth of the human beings whom I created -- human and animal, the creeping things and the birds of heaven -- for I regret having made them.'

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 won Yahweh's favour.

8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

9. This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, an upright man among his contemporaries, and he walked with God.

9. These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.

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

10. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11. God saw that the earth was corrupt and full of lawlessness.

11. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12. God looked at the earth: it was corrupt, for corrupt were the ways of all living things on earth.

12. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13. God said to Noah, 'I have decided that the end has come for all living things, for the earth is full of lawlessness because of human beings. So I am now about to destroy them and 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 yourself an ark out of resinous wood. Make it of reeds and caulk it with pitch inside and out.

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. This is how to make it: the length of the ark is to be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

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. Make a roof to the ark, building it up to a cubit higher. Put the entrance in the side of the ark, which is to be made with lower, second and third decks.

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. 'For my part I am going to send the flood, the waters, on earth, to destroy all living things having the breath of life under heaven; everything on earth is to perish.

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 you I shall establish my covenant and you will go aboard the ark, yourself, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives along with you.

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. From all living creatures, from all living things, you must take two of each kind aboard the ark, to save their lives with yours; they must be a male and a female.

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 every species of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that creeps along the ground, two must go with you so that their lives may be saved.

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. For your part, provide yourself with eatables of all kinds, and lay in a store of them, to serve as food for yourself and them.'

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. Noah did this; exactly as God commanded him, he did.

22. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.