9. This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.
10. He had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11. People on earth did what God said was evil, and violence was everywhere.
12. When God saw that everyone on the earth did only evil,
13. he said to Noah, “Because people have made the earth full of violence, I will destroy all of them from the earth.
14. Build a boat of cypress wood for yourself. Make rooms in it and cover it inside and outside with tar.
15. This is how big I want you to build the boat: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
16. Make an opening around the top of the boat that is eighteen inches high from the edge of the roof down. Put a door in the side of the boat. Make an upper, middle, and lower deck in it.
17. I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.
18. But I will make an agreement with you—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives will all go into the boat.