1. When men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
2. the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair and took as wives any they chose.
3. The Lord said, “My Spirit will not always strive with man, for he is flesh; yet his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
4. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his 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. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—both man and beast, and the creeping things, and the birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
9. These are the generations of Noah.Noah was a just man and blameless among his contemporaries. Noah walked with God.
10. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.