new creation was “God saw that it was good” (Gen. 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31). Now, in ironic contrast, God sees “how great the wickedness of the human race had become.” The world is not so “good” anymore. So God decides to destroy much of the creation and start over. Genesis 6–9 describes in detail the great flood that God sends. It is important to read this against Genesis 1, for the flood is described in terms that depict it as a reversal of the creation in Genesis 1. In Genesis 1 the waters