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Chapter 6 |
| 1 | And it came to
pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were
born unto them, |
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2 | That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that
they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. |
| 3 |
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also
is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. |
| 4 | There
were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of
God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same
became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. |
| 5 | And God saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. |
| 6 | And it
repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his
heart. |
| 7 |
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. |
| 8 | But
Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. |
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9 | These are the generations of
Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with
God. |
| 10 |
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. |
| 11 |
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence. |
| 12
| And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. |
| 13 | And
God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is
filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the
earth. |
| 14
| Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in
the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. |
| 15 | And this
is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits. |
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16 | A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit
shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. |
| 17 |
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing
that is in the earth shall die. |
| 18 | But with thee will I
establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons,
and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. |
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19 | And of every living
thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep
them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. |
| 20 | Of fowls
after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of
the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them
alive. |
| 21
| And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and
thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for
them. |
| 22 |
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did
he. |
