Genesis 6

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

²Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, and they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.

³Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeeres.

⁴There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.

⁵When the Lord 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,

⁶Then it repented ye Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorie in his heart.

⁷Therefore ye Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I haue created, from man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: for I repent that I haue made them.

⁸But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

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

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

¹¹The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.

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