Gen 6
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And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters
were born to them,
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that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them
wives of all that they chose.
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And YHWH said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh:
yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
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The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of
God came to the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the
mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
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And YHWH saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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And it repented YHWH that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his
heart.
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And YHWH said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground;
both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repents
me that I have made them.
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But Noah found favor in the eyes of YHWH.
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These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, [and] perfect in his
generations: Noah walked with God.
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And Noah engendered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
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And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their
way upon the earth.
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And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled
with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it
within and without with pitch.
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And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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A light shall you make to the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward; and
the door of the ark shall you set in its side; with lower, second, and third
stories shall you make it.
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And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh,
wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth
shall die.
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But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, and
your sons, and your wife, and your sons` wives with you.
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And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall you bring into the
ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
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Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping
thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them
alive.
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And take you to you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it shall
be for food for you, and for them.
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Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.