People became very evil and did many evil actions
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1 When people began to become very numerous all over the earth and had many daughters, 2 some of the men who were like gods saw that some of the women were very beautiful. So they took whichever ones they chose to become their wives. 3 Then Yahweh said, “I will not allow my Spirit to keep people alive forever. They will die eventually. They will not live more than 120 years before they die.”4 There were giants called Nephils who lived on the earth at that time and later. During that time some of the Nephil men who were like gods had sex with ordinary women, and the women gave birth to children. The Nephils were considered to be heroic fighters, and they became famous.
5 Yahweh saw that people on the earth had become very wicked, and that everything they thought in their hearts was evil continually. 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made people. 7 So he said, “I will completely destroy the people I made. I will also destroy all the animals and the creatures that move across the ground and the birds. None of them will remain on the earth, because I'm sorry that I made them.”
Noah pleased God, so God planned to spare him
8 But Yahweh was pleased with Noah. 9 This is what happened: Noah was a man who always did things that were righteous. No one who lived at that time could criticize him about anything. Noah lived in close fellowship with God. 10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 At that time God considered everyone else on earth to be very wicked, and everywhere on the earth the people were cruel and violent to each other. 12 God was dismayed when he saw how evil people were, because all the people on the earth had begun to live wickedly. 13 So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all people, because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as getting rid of everything else on the earth. 14 I want you to make for yourself a large boat from cypress wood. Make rooms inside it. Cover the outside and the inside of the boat with tar to make it waterproof. 15 This is the size you must make it: It shall be 150 yards long, 25 yards wide, and 15 yards high. 16 Make a roof for the boat. Leave a space of about 18 inches between the sides and the roof to let air and light enter. Make it with three decks inside, and put a door in one side. 17 Listen carefully! I am about to bring a flood that will destroy every creature that lives beneath the sky. Everything on the earth will die. 18 But Noah, I will make my agreement with you: You and your wife, your sons and their wives will enter the boat. 19 And I want to save some of all kinds of creatures. So you must also bring two of all living creatures, a male and a female, into the boat with you, so that their species also may remain alive. 20 Two of every kind of creature will come to you,in order that by your putting them in the boat you will keep them alive. They will include two of each kind of bird and each kind of animal and each kind of creature that scurries across the ground. 21 You must also take some of every kind of food that you and all those creatures will need and store it in the boat.” 22 So Noah did everything God told him to do.