Genesis 7:8 T 7
32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and
Japheth.
Wickedness in the World
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When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and
daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters
of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then
the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with a humans forever, for they are
mortal b ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
4 The Nephilim were on the e
arth in t hose days — and also afterward —
when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by
them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on
the earth, and that every inclination of the t houghts of the human heart was
only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings
on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe
from the face of the e
arth the human race I have created — and with them
the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground — for I
regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah f ound favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah and the Flood
9 This is the account of Noah and his fami l y.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he
walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the e
arth was corrupt in G
od’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God
saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had cor
rupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all peo
ple, for the e
arth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to
destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress c wood;
make rooms in it and coat it with p
itch inside and out. 15 This is how you are
to build it: The ark is to be t hree hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and
thirty cubits high. d 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening
one cubit e high all a
round. f Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower,
middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to de
stroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the b
reath of life in it.
Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you,
and you will enter the ark — you and your sons and your wife and your sons’
wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male
and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every
kind of ani m
al and of every kind of creature that moves a
long the ground will
come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be
eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole fami
ly, because I have f ound you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you
seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair
of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of
every kind of bird, male and female, to keep t heir various kinds alive through
out the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the e
arth for forty
days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living
creature I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to
escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds
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a 3 Or
My spirit will not remain in b 3 Or corrupt c 14 The meaning of the Hebrew for
this word is uncertain. d 15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or
about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high e 16 That is, about 18 inches
or about 45 centimeters f 16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.