CHAPTER 6
And after that men began to be multiplied upon
the earth, and daughters were born to them,
2 The sons of God seeing the daughters of
men, that they were fair, took to themselves
wives of all which they chose.
3 And God said: My spirit shall not remain
in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days
shall be a hundred and twenty years.
4 Now giants were upon the earth in those
days. For after the sons of God went in to the
daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of
renown.
5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men
was great on the earth, and that all the thought
of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
6 It repented him that he had made man on
the earth. And being touched inwardly with sor-row of heart,
7 He said: I will destroy man, whom I have
created, from the face of the earth, from man
even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to
the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I
have made them.
8 But Noe found grace before the Lord.
9 These are the generations of Noe: Noe was
a just and perfect man in his generations, he
walked with God.
10 And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and
Japheth.
11 And the earth was corrupted before God,
and was filled with iniquity.
12 And when God had seen that the earth
was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way
upon the earth),
13 He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is
come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity
through them, and I will destroy them with the
earth.
14 Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou
shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt
pitch it within and without.
15 And thus shalt thou make it. The length
of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits.
16 Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and
in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the
door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with
lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt
thou make it.
17 Behold, I will bring the waters of a great
flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein
is the breath of life under heaven. All things that
are in the earth shall be consumed.
18 And I will establish my covenant with thee,
and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy
sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons
with thee.
19 And of every living creature of all flesh,
thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that
they may live with thee: of the male sex, and
the female.
20 Of fowls according to their kind, and of
beasts in their kind, and of every thing that
creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two
of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may
live.
21 Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that
may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee:
and it shall be food for thee and them.
22 And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 7
And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all
thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just
before me in this generation.
2 Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the
male and the female.
3 But of the beasts that are unclean two and
two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also
of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of
the whole earth.
4 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will
rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights:
and I will destroy every substance that I have
made, from the face of the earth.
5 And Noe did all things which the Lord had
commanded him.
6 And he was six hundred years old, when the
waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
7 And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and
the wives of his sons with him into the ark, cause of the waters of the flood.
8 And of beasts clean and unclean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the
earth,
9 Two and two went in to Noe into the ark,
male and female, as the Lord had commanded
Noe.
10 And after the seven days were passed, the
waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe,
in the second month, in the seventeenth day of
the month, all the fountains of the great deep
were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven
were opened:
12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days
and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and
Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the
three wives of his sons with them, went into the
ark.
14 They and every beast according to its kind,
and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing
that moveth upon the earth, according to its
kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all
birds, and all that fly,
15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two
of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and
female of all flesh, as God had commanded him:
and the Lord shut him in on the outside.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the
earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up
the ark on high from the earth.
18 For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled
all on the face of the earth: and the ark was
carried upon the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure
upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than
the mountains which it covered.
21 And all flesh was destroyed that moved
upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and
of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep
upon the earth: and all men.
22 And all things wherein there is the breath
of life on the earth, died.
23 And he destroyed all the substance that
was upon the earth, from man even to beast,
and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and
they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe
only remained, and they that were with him in
the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a
hundred and fifty days.
