Genesis 6:1–7:24

The Nephilim and the Daughters of Men

¹Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

²that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

³Then Yahweh said, “^aMy Spirit shall not ¹strive with man forever ^2bbecause he indeed is flesh; ³nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.”

⁴The ^aNephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵Then Yahweh saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that ^aevery intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

^6aAnd Yahweh regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was ^bgrieved ¹in His heart.

⁷And Yahweh said, “^aI will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ¹sky; for ^bI regret that I have made them.”

⁸But ^aNoah ^bfound favor in the eyes of Yahweh.

The Generations of Noah

⁹These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a ^arighteous man, ^1bblameless among those in his generations; Noah ^cwalked with God.

¹⁰And Noah ¹became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹Now the earth was ^acorrupt before God, and the earth was ^bfilled with violence.

¹²And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for ^aall flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

¹³Then God said to Noah, “^aThe end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

¹⁴“Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and you shall ¹cover it inside and out with pitch.

¹⁵“Now this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark ¹300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.

¹⁶“You shall make a ¹window for the ark, and complete it to one ²cubit from ³the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

¹⁷“As for Me, behold ^aI am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall breathe its last.

¹⁸“But I will establish ^aMy covenant with you; and ^byou shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

¹⁹“^aAnd of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

²⁰“^aOf the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.

²¹“As for you, take for yourself some of all ^afood which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.”

^22aThus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

CHAPTER 7

Noah and the Flood

¹Then Yahweh said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be ^arighteous before Me in this generation.

²“You shall take ¹with you of every ^aclean animal ²by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female;

³also of the birds of the ¹sky, ²by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth.

⁴“For after ^aseven more days, I will send rain on the earth ^bforty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land ^cevery living thing that I have made.”

^5aAnd Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him.

⁶Now Noah was ^asix hundred years old when the flood of water ¹came upon the earth.

⁷Then ^aNoah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

^8aOf clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

⁹¹by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰Now it happened after ^athe seven days, that the water of the flood ¹came upon the earth.

¹¹In the ^asix hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all ^bthe fountains of the great deep split open, and the ¹floodgates of the sky were opened.

^12aThen the rain ¹came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³On this very day ^aNoah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

¹⁴they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after ¹their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every ²fowl, every winged creature.

¹⁵So they came to Noah into the ark, ^aby twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

¹⁶And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed it behind him.

¹⁷Then the flood ¹came upon the earth for ^aforty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

¹⁸And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the ¹surface of the water.

¹⁹And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

²⁰The water prevailed ¹fifteen cubits higher, ^aand the mountains were covered.

^21aAnd all flesh that ¹moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind.

²²All ^ain whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died.

²³Thus He blotted out ¹every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ²sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only ^aNoah remained, and those that were with him in the ark.

^24aAnd the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.