﻿Genesis.
Chapter 6.
When people began to multiply on the surface of the ground and daughters were born to them, 
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives any they chose. 
Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he too is flesh. His days will be 120 years.” 
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men and the women bore them children. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown. 
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 
The LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart. 
So the LORD said, “I will wipe man, whom I have created, from the surface of the ground—man and livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I have made them.” 
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries. Noah walked with God. 
Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 
Now the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 
God looked at the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth. 
God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Behold, I am about to destroy them along with the earth. 
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make compartments in the ark, and coat it inside and out with pitch. 
This is how you are to make it: about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 
Make an opening for the ark, and finish it to within about 18 inches of the top. Put the door of the ark in its side, and make it with lower, second, and third decks. 
I myself am bringing a flood of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life under heaven. Everything on the earth will perish. 
But I will establish my covenant with you. You will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 
Of all living creatures, of all flesh, bring two of each into the ark to keep them alive with you. They must be male and female. 
From the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind, two of each will come to you to be kept alive. 
As for you, take some of every kind of food that is eaten and gather it to yourself. It will be food for you and for them.” 
Noah did this. He did everything God commanded him. 
