Bible Verses About Antediluvians

In addition she gave birth to his brother Hevel. Hevel kept sheep, while Kayin worked the soil.

In the course of time Kayin brought an offering to Adonai from the produce of the soil;

and Hevel too brought from the firstborn of his sheep, including their fat. Adonai accepted Hevel and his offering

‘Adah gave birth to Yaval; he was the ancestor of those who live in tents and have cattle.

His brother’s name was Yuval; and he was the ancestor of all who play lyre and flute.

Tzilah gave birth to Tuval-Kayin, who forged all kinds of tools from brass and iron; the sister of Tuval-Kayin was Na‘amah.

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.”

Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside.

Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet.

You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.

“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.

“From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female.

Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive.

Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for yourself; it is to be food for you and for them.”

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

All living beings that moved on the earth perished — birds, livestock, other animals, insects, and every human being,

everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life; whatever was on dry land died.

He wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground — not only human beings, but livestock, creeping animals and birds in the air. They were wiped out from the earth; only Noach was left, along with those who were with him in the ark.

"Are you going to keep to the old way, the one the wicked have trodden,

the ones snatched away before their time, whose foundations a flood swept away?

They said to God, 'Leave us alone! What can Shaddai do to us?'

For the Son of Man's coming will be just as it was in the days of Noach.