Noah, the ark, and the great flood
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And it came about when men began to increase in number on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 📚that the sons of God✭ saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3 📚And the LORD said, “My spirit will not always strive✭ with man, for he also is flesh. Yet his days will be a hundred and twenty years✭”.4 📚There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they gave birth to children by them. They became the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 📚✭And LORD saw that the wickedness of man in the earth was great, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 📚✭And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. 7 📚✭And the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the earth, both man, and beast, and creeping things, and the birds of the air, for I regret having made them”. 8 📚But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 📚✭These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man and blameless✭ in his time, and Noah walked with God. 10 📚And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 📚The earth also was corrupt in the eyes of✭ God and the earth was filled with violence. 12 📚✭And God looked at the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 📚And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come in my presence, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and, look, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 📚Make yourself an ark of gopher✭ wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall cover it inside and outside with pitch✭. 15 📚✭And this is the way you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16 📚You shall make a window in the ark, and shall finish it to a cubit from the top✭. And you shall put the door of the ark in its side. You shall make the ark with lower, second, and third decks. 17 📚And, look, I, even I, am going to bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh which has the breath of life. Everything that is on the earth will die. 18 📚✭But I will establish my covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark, you, and with you, your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives. 19 📚And you shall bring into the ark two of each kind of every living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 20 📚Two of each kind shall come to you, of birds according to their kind, and of cattle according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth according to its kind, two of every kind shall come to you, to keep them alive. 21 📚And you shall gather for yourself some of every food that is eaten, and take it with you, and it will be for food for you and for them”.
22 📚✭Noah did this. He did according to all that God commanded him.