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Gen 6:1 |
WHEN MEN began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, |
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Gen 6:2 |
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took wives of all they desired and chose. |
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Gen 6:3 |
Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not forever dwell and strive with man, for he also is flesh; but his days shall yet be 120 years. |
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Gen 6:4 |
There were giants on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. |
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Gen 6:5 |
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually. |
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Gen 6:6 |
And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart. |
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Gen 6:7 |
So the Lord said, I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away mankind, whom I have created from the face of the ground--not only man, [but] the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air--for it grieves Me and makes Me regretful that I have made them. |
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Gen 6:8 |
But Noah found grace (favor) in the eyes of the Lord. |
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Gen 6:9 |
This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a just and righteous man, blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked [in habitual fellowship] with God. |
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Gen 6:10 |
And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. |
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Gen 6:11 |
The earth was depraved and putrid in God's sight, and the land was filled with violence (desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power). |
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Gen 6:12 |
And God looked upon the world and saw how degenerate, debased, and vicious it was, for all humanity had corrupted their way upon the earth and lost their true direction. |
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Gen 6:13 |
God said to Noah, I intend to make an end of all flesh, for through men the land is filled with violence; and behold, I will destroy them and the land. |
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Gen 6:14 |
Make yourself an ark of gopher or cypress wood; make in it rooms (stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, and compartments) and cover it inside and out with pitch (bitumen). |
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Gen 6:15 |
And this is the way you are to make it: the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits [that is, 450 ft. x 75 ft. x 45 ft.]. |
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Gen 6:16 |
You shall make a roof or window [a place for light] for the ark and finish it to a cubit [at least 18 inches] above--and the door of the ark you shall put in the side of it; and you shall make it with lower, second, and third stories. |
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Gen 6:17 |
For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy and make putrid all flesh under the heavens in which are the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die. |
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Gen 6:18 |
But I will establish My covenant (promise, pledge) with you, and you shall come into the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. |
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Gen 6:19 |
And of every living thing of all flesh [found on land], you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. |
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Gen 6:20 |
Of fowls and birds according to their kinds, of beasts according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind--two of every sort shall come in with you, that they may be kept alive. |
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Gen 6:21 |
Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and you shall collect and store it up, and it shall serve as food for you and for them. |
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Gen 6:22 |
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him. |
