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1 And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
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1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
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2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
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2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
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3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
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3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
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4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
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4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
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5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
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6 And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
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6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.
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7 And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
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7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth--men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air--for I am grieved that I have made them."
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8 But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.
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8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
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9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
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9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.
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10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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11 And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
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11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
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12 And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
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12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
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13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.
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14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
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15 And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
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15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.
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16 You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.
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16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
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17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
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17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
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18 But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
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18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
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19 And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.
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19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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20 Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.
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20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
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21 And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.
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21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
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22 And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.
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22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
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