Genesis:6

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* Men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them . * The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful . They married any of them they chose . * Jehovah said : »My Spirit will not contend with man forever , for he is mortal and corrupt . Therefore his days will be a hundred and twenty years .« * The NEPHILIM were on the earth in those days , and also afterward , when the sons of God had sexual intercourse with the daughters of men and had children by them . They were the heroes of old , men of renown . * Jehovah saw how great man ’s wickedness on the earth had become . Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time . * Jehovah was grieved that he had made man on the earth . His heart was grieved with pain . * So Jehovah said : »I will wipe mankind , whom I have created , from the face of the earth . All of them : men and animals , and creatures that move along the ground , and birds of the air . I am sorry that I created them .« * But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah . * This is the ACCOUNT OF NOAH . Noah was a righteous man , blameless among the people of his time . He walked with God . * Noah had three sons : Shem , Ham , and Japheth . * The earth was corrupt in God ’s sight . It was full of violence . * God saw how corrupt the earth had become . All the people on earth had corrupted their ways . * 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 going to destroy them with the earth . * »BUILD AN ARK of cypress wood . Make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out . * »This is how you are to build it : The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long , seventy-five feet wide , and forty-five feet high . * »Build a roof on it and finish the ark to within eighteen inches of the top . Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower , middle , and upper decks . * »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 . * »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 . * »Bring into the ark two of all living creatures , male and female , to keep them alive with you . * »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 . * »Take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them .« * Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him .

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