Genesis, 6

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

1. When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to 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. the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as 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. Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a 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. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the 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. The LORD 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 the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to 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. So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

8. But Noah won Yahweh's favour.

8. But Noah found favor 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 righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

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

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

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

11. Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, 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 saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their 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 to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; 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 yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out 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. This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height 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. Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and set the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks.

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. For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on 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 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

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, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; 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 the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, 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. Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them."

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

22. Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.