1. When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
2. God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
3. The Lord said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred and twenty years.”
4. The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
6. The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
7. The Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
8. But Noah found favour in the Lord’s eyes.
9. This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless amongst the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
10. Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11. The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12. God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.