1. Now when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them,
2. then the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good and they took for themselves wives, any they chose.
3. Then Adonai said, “My Spirit will not remain with humankind forever, since they are flesh. So their days will be 120 years.
4. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, whenever the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and gave birth to them. Those were the mighty men of old, men of renown.
5. Then Adonai saw that the wickedness of humankind was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil all the time.
6. So Adonai regretted that He made humankind on the earth, and His heart was deeply pained.
7. So Adonai said, “I will wipe out humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the ground, from humankind to livestock, crawling things and the flying creatures of the sky, because I regret that I made them.”
8. But Noah found favor in Adonai’s eyes.
9. These are the genealogies of Noah. Noah was a righteous man. He was blameless among his generation. Noah continually walked with God.
10. Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11. Now the earth was ruined before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12. God saw the earth, and behold it was ruined because all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.