And after that men began to be multiplied upon
the earth, and daughters were born to them,
2 The sons of God seeing the daughters of
men, that they were fair, took to themselves
wives of all which they chose.
3 And God said: My spirit shall not remain
in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days
shall be a hundred and twenty years.
4 Now giants were upon the earth in those
days. For after the sons of God went in to the
daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of
renown.
5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men
was great on the earth, and that all the thought
of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
6 It repented him that he had made man on
the earth. And being touched inwardly with sor-
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row of heart,
7 He said: I will destroy man, whom I have
created, from the face of the earth, from man
even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to
the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I
have made them.
8 But Noe found grace before the Lord.
9 These are the generations of Noe: Noe was
a just and perfect man in his generations, he
walked with God.
10 And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and
Japheth.
11 And the earth was corrupted before God,
and was filled with iniquity.
12 And when God had seen that the earth
was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way
upon the earth),
13 He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is
come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity
through them, and I will destroy them with the
earth.
14 Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou
shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt
pitch it within and without.
15 And thus shalt thou make it. The length
of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits.
16 Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and
in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the
door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with
lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt
thou make it.
17 Behold, I will bring the waters of a great
flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein
is the breath of life under heaven. All things that
are in the earth shall be consumed.
18 And I will establish my covenant with thee,
and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy
sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons
with thee.
19 And of every living creature of all flesh,
thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that
they may live with thee: of the male sex, and
the female.
20 Of fowls according to their kind, and of
beasts in their kind, and of every thing that
creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two
of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may
live.
21 Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that
may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee:
and it shall be food for thee and them.
22 And Noe did all things which God commanded him