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1.    And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the  earth, and daughters were born to them,
 
2.    that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were  fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
 
3.    And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man;  for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and  twenty years.
 
4.    In those days were the giants on the earth, and also  afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters  of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the  heroes, who of old were men of renown.
 
5.    And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the  earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only  evil continually.
 
6.    And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and  it grieved him in his heart.
 
7.    And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created,  from the earth -- from man to cattle, to creeping things, and  to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.
 
8.    But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.
 
9.    This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect  amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.
 
10.    And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 
11.    And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was  full of violence.
 
12.    And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt;  for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.
 
13.    And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before  me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold,  I will destroy them with the earth.
 
14.    Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: with cells shalt thou  make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
 
15.    And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be  three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the  height of it thirty cubits.
 
16.    A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high  shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou  set in its side: with a lower, second, and third story  shalt thou make it.
 
17.    For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to  destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of  life: everything that is on the earth shall expire.
 
18.    But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt  go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy  sons` wives with thee.
 
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 fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their  kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two  of each shall go in to thee, to keep them alive.
 
21.    And take thou of all food that is eaten, and gather it to  thee, that it may be for food for thee and for them.
 
22.    And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded  him, so did he.