1 Now when mankind began to increase on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them,
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.
3 The LORD said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, since he is indeed flesh; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and afterward too, when the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and they bore them children. They were the mighty ones of ancient times, men of name.
5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth was, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil, every day.
6 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and he was pained in his heart.
7 And the LORD said, "I will wipe out from the face of the ground man whom I created—man together with cattle, creeping things, and birds of the heavens—because I am sorry that I made them."
8 Noah, however, found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time; Noah walked with God.
10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 In God's sight the earth had grown corrupt, and the earth was full of violence.
12 God looked upon the earth, and it was indeed corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
13 So God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, because through them the earth is full of violence. I am about to destroy them along with the earth.
14 Make an ark of gopher wood for yourself; build it with compartments, and coat it with pitch inside and out.
15 And this is how you are to make it: three hundred cubits the length of the ark, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height.
16 Make a roof for the ark, completing it to a cubit upward; put the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third levels.
17 As for me, I am about to bring the flood, waters upon the earth, to destroy from under the heavens all flesh that has the breath of life in it. Everything on the earth will perish.
18 But with you I will establish my covenant. You will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
19 From every living thing, from all flesh, you shall bring two of each into the ark to keep alive with you; let them be male and female.
20 From the birds after their kind, from the cattle after their kind, and from every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each will come to you to be kept alive.
21 Take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and store it up with you; it will serve as food for you and for them."
22 And Noah did so; he did everything just as God had commanded him.