Genesis 6:6–22

^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.