7. So the Lord said: I will wipe out from the earth the human beings I have created, and not only the human beings, but also the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air, for I regret that I made them.
8. But Noah found favor with the Lord.
9. These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
10. Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11. But the earth was corrupt in the view of God and full of lawlessness.
12. When God saw how corrupt the earth had become, since all mortals had corrupted their ways on earth,