Gênesis 6

¹ So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,

² That theThe children of the godly who began to degenerate.sons of God saw the daughtersThose that had wicked parents, as if from Cain.of men that they [were]Having more respect for their beauty and worldly considerations than for their manners and godliness.fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

³ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not alwaysBecause man could not by won by God's leniency and patience by which he tried to win him, he would no longer withhold his vengeance.strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be anWhich time span God gave man to repent before he would destroy the earth, (1Pe_3:20).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 ofWho usurped authority over others, and degenerated from that simplicity, in which their father's lived.renown.

⁵ When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,

⁶ And itGod never repents, but he speaks in human terms, because he destroyed him, and in a way denied him as his creature.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, andGod declares how much he detests sin, seeing the punishment of it extends to the brute beasts.beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

⁸ But NoahGod was merciful to him.found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with God.

¹⁰ And Noah begate three sonnes, Shem, Ham and Iapheth.

¹¹ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled withMeaning, that all were given to the contempt of God, and oppression of their neighbours.violence.

¹² Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon the earth.

¹³ And God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with the earth.

¹⁴ Make thee an Arke of pine trees: thou shalt make cabines in the Arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

¹⁵ And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the Arke shalbe three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, and the height of it thirtie cubites.

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]That is, of three heights.lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it.

¹⁷ And I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.

¹⁸ But with thee will ISo that in this great undertaking and mocking of the whole world, you may be confirmed so your faith does not fail.establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

¹⁹ And of euery liuing thing, of all flesh two of euery sort shalt thou cause to come into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shalbe male and female.

²⁰ Of the foules, after their kinde, and of the cattell after their kind, of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, that thou mayest keepe them aliue.

²¹ And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten: and thou shalt gather it to thee, that it may be meate for thee and for them.

²² Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him,That is, he obeyed God's commandment in all points without adding or taking away.so did he.