1 When people began being numerous on earth, and daughters had been 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.
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.'
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.
5 Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long.
6 Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at 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.'
8 But Noah won Yahweh's favour.
9 This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, an upright man among his contemporaries, and he walked with God.
10 Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 God saw that the earth was corrupt and full of lawlessness.
12 God looked at the earth: it was corrupt, for corrupt were the ways of all living things on 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.
14 Make yourself an ark out of resinous wood. Make it of reeds and caulk it with pitch inside and out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
22 Noah did this; exactly as God commanded him, he did.
Versículos relacionados com Genesis, 6:
Genesis 6 tells the story of the flood, an event in which God decides to destroy humanity because of his corruption and evil, preserving only Noah and his family, as well as a representation of each type of animal in an ark. The selected verses are:
Isaiah 54:9: "For this will be to me as the waters of Noah; for I swore that Noah's waters would no longer flood the earth, and thus I swore that I will no longer go against you, nor will I rebuke you." This verse refers to Noah's flood as a promise of God that he will never destroy the earth with water again.
2 Peter 2:5: "And it did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of justice, with seven more people when he brought the flood over a world of wicked." This verse mentions Noah as a preacher of justice and the destruction of the wicked world by the flood.
Matthew 24:37-39: "For as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be the coming of the Son of man. For, as in the days before the flood, they ate, drank, married, and giving themselves in marriage, until The day Noah entered the ark, and did not realize him, until the flood came, and led them to all; so will be the coming of the son of man. " This verse compares the flood with the second coming of Jesus, emphasizing the need to be prepared for judgment.
Genesis 9:11: "I establish my covenant with you: no creature will never be exterminated because of the waters of the flood; there will never be another flood to destroy the earth." This verse is God establishing the covenant with Noah after the flood, promising never to destroy the earth with water.
Hebrews 11:7: "By faith, Noah, divinely instructed about events that have not yet been seen and being fearful to God, built an ark to save his family; and through faith condemned the world and became heir to justice that is according to faith. " This verse highlights Noah's faith to obey God and build the ark, as well as his righteousness and salvation of destruction.
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