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6:1  When men began to multiply upon the earth, and they began to have daughters,
6:2  the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married as many of them as they wanted.
6:3  The Lord therefore said, “My spirit will not remain in them forever, for they are flesh and the length of their lives will be one hundred and twenty years.”
6:4  There were giants upon the earth at this time, as well as afterward. They were the children of the sons of God who married the daughters of men. These were the heroes of times past, men of renown.
6:5  The Lord saw that the wickedness of men upon the earth was great, and that every plan that their hearts conceived was nothing but evil.
6:6  The Lord regretted that he had made man upon the earth and his heart was grieved.
6:7  The Lord said, “I will obliterate man, whom I created, from the earth. Together with man I will eliminate all the cattle and reptiles and the birds of the air, for I regret having made them.”
6:8  But Noah found favor with the Lord.
6:9  This is the story of Noah. Noah was a just and blameless man at that time and he walked with God.
6:10  Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11  But the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and filled with violence.
6:12  God saw that the earth was corrupt, for every person on the earth was perverse in what he did.
6:13  God therefore said to Noah, “I have decided to end everything, for they have filled the earth with their violence. Behold, I will destroy the entire creation.
6:14  Build an ark of gopher wood and divide the ark into compartments and caulk it with bitumen inside and out.
6:15  This is how you shall make it: the ark will be three hundred cubits long, fifty wide, and thirty high.
6:16  Make a roof on the ark one cubit high. Place a door in the side of the ark. Make it with three decks: lower, middle, and higher.
6:17  “Behold, I will send a flood. The waters shall cover the earth to destroy the life of everything under the skies that has the breath of life in it. Everything on the earth shall perish.
6:18  But I will establish a covenant with you. “Go into the ark, you and your sons, your wife, and the wives of your sons.
6:19  Bring into the ark two of everything that lives, of all flesh. Bring a male and female of each species into the ark to save them.
6:20  Bring two birds of each species, two animals of each species, and two reptiles of each species with you to save them.
6:21  As for you, gather every type of food and take it with you. It shall nourish both you and them.”
6:22  Noah did all of this, exactly as God had commanded him.