Genesis 6:4-14

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
6 The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah and the Flood

9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Cross References 24

  • 1. Numbers 13:33
  • 2. ver 2
  • 3. Genesis 11:4
  • 4. Genesis 38:7; Job 34:26; Jeremiah 1:16; Jeremiah 44:5; Ezekiel 3:19
  • 5. Genesis 8:21; Psalms 14:1-3
  • 6. Exodus 32:14; 1 Samuel 15:11,35; 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Chronicles 21:15; Isaiah 63:10; Jeremiah 18:7-10; Ephesians 4:30
  • 7. Ezekiel 33:28; Zephaniah 1:2,18
  • 8. ver 17; Genesis 7:4,21; Deuteronomy 28:63; Deuteronomy 29:20
  • 9. Ezekiel 14:14
  • 10. Genesis 19:19; Genesis 39:4; Ex 33:12,13,17; Exodus 34:9; Numbers 11:15; Ruth 2:2; Luke 1:30; Acts 7:46
  • 11. S Genesis 2:4
  • 12. Genesis 17:1; Deuteronomy 18:13; 2 Samuel 22:24; Job 1:1; Job 4:6; Job 9:21; Job 12:4; Job 31:6; Psalms 15:2; Psalms 18:23; Psalms 19:13; Psalms 37:37; Proverbs 2:7
  • 13. Genesis 7:1; Psalms 37:39; Jeremiah 15:1; Ezekiel 14:14,20; Daniel 10:11; S Luke 1:6; Hebrews 11:7; 2 Peter 2:5
  • 14. S Genesis 5:22
  • 15. Luke 3:36
  • 16. S Genesis 5:32
  • 17. Deuteronomy 31:29; Judges 2:19
  • 18. Psalms 7:9; Psalms 73:6; Ezekiel 7:23; Ezekiel 8:17; Ezekiel 28:16; Malachi 2:16
  • 19. Exodus 32:7; Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 9:12,24
  • 20. Psalms 14:1-3
  • 21. Deuteronomy 28:63; 2 Kings 8:19; Ezra 9:14; Jeremiah 44:11
  • 22. ver 17; Ge 7:4,21-23; Job 34:15; Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 24:1-3; Jeremiah 44:27; Ezekiel 7:2-3
  • 23. Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20
  • 24. Exodus 2:3

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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