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Genesis 6

Good News Translation GNT

1 When people had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born,

2 some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.

3 Then the Lord said, "I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years."

4 In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.

5 When the Lord saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

6 he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret

7 that he said, "I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them."

8 But the Lord was pleased with Noah.

9 This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God,

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11 but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.

12 God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.

13 God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all people. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds.

14 Build a boat for yourself out of good timber; make rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.

15 Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

16 Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 18 inches between the roof and the sides. Build it with three decks and put a door in the side.

17 I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,

18 but I will make a covenant with you. Go into the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.

19 Take into the boat with you a male and a female of every kind of animal and of every kind of bird, in order to keep them alive.

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21 Take along all kinds of food for you and for them."

22 Noah did everything that God commanded.

World English Bible WEB

1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

3 Yahweh said, "My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Yahweh 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.

6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

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

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

12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

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

16 You shall make a roof in the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

17 I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

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

19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

20 Of the birds after their kind, 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.

21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them.

22 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.