Genesis 6

1The number of people on earth continued to increase, and these people had daughters.

2Some of the angels saw that these daughters were beautiful. They married the daughters they wanted.

3Then the LORD said: My Spirit will not struggle with humans forever, because humans are flesh. Humans will live only 120 years.

4In that time there were giants on earth. The giants were the children of the angels who had married the people's daughters. The giants were very strong soldiers, and everyone knew about them.

5The LORD saw that the people on the earth were very evil. The LORD saw that people thought only about evil things all the time.

6The LORD was sorry that the LORD had made people on the earth. It made the LORD very sad.

7So the LORD said: I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them.

8But Noah pleased the LORD.

9This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was a good man who did what was right. Noah was the only person of his time who had no fault. Noah walked with God.

10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11The earth was full of evil in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

12God looked at the earth and saw that it was full of evil, because all people on the earth had lived evil lives.

13God said to Noah: The end of all living things has come. I have decided to destroy them, because the earth is filled with violence because of them. I will destroy them along with the earth.

14God told Noah: Use gopher wood to build an ark. You must build rooms in the ark. Put tar over the wood, inside and outside.

15This is the size I want you to make the ark: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. A cubit is about 1.5 feet. So the ark will be about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.

16Make a window in the ark, one cubit below the roof. Put a door in the side of the ark. Make three floors in the ark: a bottom floor, a middle floor, and a top floor.

17Listen: I am going to bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy every living thing that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

18I will make My agreement with you. You, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives will all go into the ark.

19Also bring two of every living thing into the ark with you. Bring a male and a female of each kind, so they can stay alive with you.

20Two of every kind of bird, farm animal, and animal that crawls on the ground will come to you. You must keep them alive.

21Also take every kind of food and store it. It will be food for you and for the animals.

22Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded.