1. And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
2. and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.
3. And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.
4. The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them--they [are] the heroes, who, from of old, [are] the men of name.
5. And Jehovah seeth that abundant [is] the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;
6. and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself-- unto His heart.
7. And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'
8. And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
9. These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.