Genesis 6:1–7

The Wickedness and Judgment of Man

6Now it came to pass, ^awhen men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, ²that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they ^btook wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

³And the Lord said, ^c“My Spirit shall not ^dstrive ¹with man forever, ^efor he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴There were ²giants on the earth in those ^fdays, 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 ³the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every ^gintent ⁴of the thoughts of his heart was only evil ⁵continually. ⁶And ^hthe Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and ⁱHe was grieved in His ^jheart. ⁷So the Lord said, “I will ^kdestroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”