Prelude to the Flood

6 And it happened that, when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them. 2 Thena the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose. 3 And Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty warriors that were from ancient times, men of ⌊renown⌋.b

5 And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind was great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was alwaysc only evil. 6 And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and ⌊he was grieved in his heart⌋.d 7 And Yahweh said, “I will destroy humankind whom I created from upon the face of the earth, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven,e for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.