Genesis 6

1 When people began to become very numerous all over the earth, and many daughters were born to them,

It came about when mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,

2 some of the men who (belonged to/believed in) God saw that some of the women who did not (belong to/believe in) God were very beautiful. So they took whichever ones they chose to become their wives.

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were attractive. They took for themselves wives, any of them that they chose.

3 Then Yahweh said, “[I will] not [allow] my Spirit to keep people alive forever (OR, the breath of life will not remain in people forever). They will die eventually. They will live not more than 120 years before they die (OR, there will be only 120 more years before they die).”

Yahweh said, “My spirit will not remain in mankind forever, for they are flesh. They will live 120 years.”

4 There were [giants called] Nephils who lived on the earth at that time and later. During that time [some of the Nephil] men who (belonged to/believed in) God had sex [EUP] with women who did not (belong to/believe in) God, and they gave birth to children. The Nephils were considered to be heroic fighters, and they became famous.

Giants were on the earth in those days, and also afterward. This happened when the sons of God married daughters of men, and they had children with them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown.

5 Yahweh saw that people on the earth had become very wicked, and that everything they thought about evil things continually.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made people.

Yahweh regretted that he had made mankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

7 So he said, “I will completely destroy the people I made. I will also destroy all the animals and the creatures that scurry across the ground and the birds. None of them will remain on the earth, because I regret that I made them.”

So Yahweh said, “I will wipe away mankind whom I have created from the surface of the earth; both mankind and the larger animals, and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

8 But Yahweh was pleased with Noah.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.

9 This is why: Noah was a man who always acted in a righteous way. No one who lived at that time could criticize him about anything. Noah lived in close fellowship with God.

These were the events concerning Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

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

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

11 At that time God considered that everyone else on earth was very wicked, and everywhere on the earth, people [MTY] were acting cruelly and violently toward each other.

The earth was corrupt before God, and it was filled with violence.

12 God was dismayed when he saw how evil people [MTY] were, because everyone (OR, all living creatures) had begun to behave in an evil way.

God saw the earth; behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

13 So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy everyone, because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as everything else on the earth.

God said to Noah, “I can see that it is time to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Indeed, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 [I want you to] make for yourself a large boat from cypress wood. Make rooms inside it. Cover the outside and the inside with tar [to make it (waterproof/so that water cannot get in and sink the boat]).

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch within and without.

15 This is the size you must make it: It shall be (150 yards/135 meters) long, (25 yards/22.5 meters) wide, and (15 yards/13.5 meters) high.

This is how you will make it: The length of the ark is to be three hundred cubits; the breadth of it is to be fifty cubits, and the height of it is to be thirty cubits.

16 Make a roof for the boat. Leave a space of about (18 in./.5 meter) between the sides and the roof to let air and light enter (OR, the middle of the roof should be 18 inches higher than the sides). Build the boat with three decks inside, and put a door in one side.

Make a roof for the ark, and finish it at a cubit from the top of the side. Place a door in the side of the ark and make a lower, a second, and a third deck.

17 Listen carefully! I am about to cause a flood to occur that will destroy every creature that lives beneath the sky. Everything on the earth will die.

Listen, I am about to bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh that has in it the breath of life from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth will die.

18 But I will make an agreement with you(sg): You and your wife, your sons and their wives will enter the boat.

But I will establish my covenant with you. You will come into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

19 And I want to save some of all kinds of creatures. So you must also bring two of all living creatures, a male and a female, into the boat with you, so that their species also may remain alive.

Of every living creature of all flesh, two of every kind you must bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you, both male and female.

20 Two of every kind of creature will come to [in order that by your putting them in the boat] you will keep them alive. They will include two of each kind of bird and each kind of animal and each kind of creature that scurries across the ground.

Of the birds after their kind, and of the larger animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.

21 You must also take some of every kind of food that you and all these animals will need, and store it in the boat.”

Gather for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and store it, so that it will be food for you and for them.”

22 So Noah did everything that God told him to do.

So Noah did this. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

The World is Destroyed by Water