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the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were attractive; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Adonai said, “My Spirit will not live in human beings forever, for they too are flesh; therefore their life span is to be 120 years.”

The N’filim were on the earth in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; these were the ancient heroes, men of renown.

Adonai saw that the people on earth were very wicked, that all the imaginings of their hearts were always of evil only.

Adonai regretted that he had made humankind on the earth; it grieved his heart.

Adonai said, “I will wipe out humankind, whom I have created, from the whole earth; and not only human beings, but animals, creeping things and birds in the air; for I regret that I ever made them.”

But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai.

Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God.

The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence.

God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth.

God said to Noach, “The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.

“Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.

But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.

Adonai said to Noach, “Come into the ark, you and all your household; for I have seen that you alone in this generation are righteous before me.

For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the earth.”

Noach did all that Adonai ordered him to do.

couples, male and female, went in to Noach in the ark, as God had ordered Noach.

Those that entered went in, male and female, from every kind of living being, as God had ordered him; and Adonai shut him inside.

God remembered Noach, every living thing and all the livestock with him in the ark; so God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to go down.

God said to Noach,

Noach built an altar to Adonai. Then he took from every clean animal and every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Adonai smelled the sweet aroma, and Adonai said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, since the imaginings of a person’s heart are evil from his youth; nor will I ever again destroy all living things, as I have done.

God blessed Noach and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; just as I gave you green plants before, so now I give you everything —