Genesis 6:1–7:24

The Corruption of Mankind

¹Now it came about, 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 ¹beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

³Then the Lord said, “^aMy Spirit shall not ¹strive with man forever, ^2bbecause he also is flesh; ³nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty 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 the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that ^aevery intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

^6aThe Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was ^bgrieved ¹in His heart.

⁷The Lord 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 am sorry that I have made them.”

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

⁹These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a ^arighteous man, ^1bblameless in his ²time; Noah ^cwalked with God.

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

¹¹Now the earth was ^acorrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was ^bfilled with violence.

¹²God looked on 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 shall ¹cover it inside and out with pitch.

¹⁵“This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred ¹cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

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

¹⁷“Behold, ^aI, even I 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 perish.

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

The Flood

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

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 ³offspring 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.”

^5aNoah did according to all that the Lord 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,

⁹there went into the ark to Noah ¹by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰It came about 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 the same day all ^bthe fountains of the great deep burst open, and the ¹floodgates of the sky were opened.

^12aThe rain ¹fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³On the very same 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, ²all sorts of birds.

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

¹⁶Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.

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

¹⁸The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark ¹floated on the ²surface of the water.

¹⁹The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains ¹everywhere under the heavens were covered.

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

^21aAll flesh that ¹moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;

²²of all that was on the dry land, all ^ain whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, 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 was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

^24aThe water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.