6When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,H120H2490H7231H5921H6440H127H1323H32052the sons of God saw that these daughters were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.H1121H430H7200H1323H120H2007H2896H3947H802H9773Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with human beings forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."H3068H559H7307H5769H1777H120H1571H1320H7683H3117H3967H6242H81414The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of the human beings and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.H5303H776H3117H310H3651H834H1121H430H935H1323H120H3205H1992H1368H5769H582H80345The 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.H3068H7200H7451H120H7227H776H3336H4284H3820H7535H7451H31176The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.H5162H3068H6213H120H776H6087H413H38207So 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."H3068H559H4229H120H1254H6440H127H120H5704H929H7431H5775H8064H5162H62138But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.H5146H4672H2580H5869H30689This 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.H8435H5146H5146H6662H376H8549H1755H5146H1980H43010Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.H5146H3205H7969H1121H8035H2526H331511Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.H776H7843H6440H430H776H4390H255512God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.H430H7200H776H7843H1320H7843H1870H77613So 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.H430H559H5146H7093H1320H935H6440H776H4390H2555H6440H7843H854H77614So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.H6213H8392H1613H6086H7064H6213H854H8392H3722H1004H2351H372415This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.H6213H753H8392H7969H3967H520H7341H2572H520H6967H7970H52016Make 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.H6672H6213H8392H520H3615H4605H6607H8392H7760H6654H8482H8145H7992H621317I 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.H2009H589H935H3999H4325H776H7843H1320H7307H2416H8478H8064H3605H776H147818But 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.H6965H1285H935H413H8392H859H1121H802H1121H80219You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.H2416H1320H8147H935H8392H2421H2145H534720Two 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.H5775H4327H929H4327H7431H127H4327H8147H935H242121You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."H3947H3978H398H622H40222Noah did everything just as God commanded him.H6213H5146H430H6680H6213