CHAP. VI.
1 The wickednesse of the world, which prouoked Gods wrath, and caused the Flood. 8 Noah findeth grace. 13 The order, forme, and end of the Arke.
1 And it came to passe, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were borne vnto them:
2 That the sonnes of God saw the daughters of men, that they were faire, and they took them wiues, of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not alwayes striue with man; for that hee also is flesh: yet his dayes shalbe an hundred and twenty yeeres.
4 There were Giants in the earth in those daies: and also after that, when the sonnes of God came in vnto the daughters of men, & they bare children to them; the same became mightie men, which were of old, men of renowme.
5 ¶ And God saw, that the wickednes of man was great in the earth, and || that euery imagination of the thoughts of his *heart was onely euill continually. [ *Or, the whole imagination. The Hebr. word signifieth not onely the imagination, but also the purposes and desires. , Chap. 8. 21. mat.15. 19. , Hebr. euery day.]
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieued him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man, whom I haue created, from the face of the earth: +both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the foules of the aire: for it repenteth me that I haue made them.[+Hebr. from man vnto beast.]
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 ¶ These are the generations of Noah: * Noah was a iust man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. [ *Ecclus. 44 17. 2.pet. 2.5. , Or, vpright.]
10 And Noah begate three sonnes: Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked vpon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way vpon the earth.
13 And God said vnto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before mee; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them ||with the earth.[Or, from the earth.]
14 ¶ Make thee an Arke of Gopher-wood: +roomes shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. [+Heb. nests.]
15 And this is the fashion, which thou shalt make it of: the length of the arke shalbe three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirtie cubits.
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