Genesis 6
Genesis 6
Genesis 6
1And it came to passe, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were borne vnto them:
2That the sonnes of God saw the daughters of men, that they were faire,
and they took them wiues, of all which they chose.
3And 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.
4There 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.
6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieued him at his heart.
7And 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.
8But 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.
10And Noah begate three sonnes: Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.
11The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with
violence.
12And God looked vpon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh
had corrupted his way vpon the earth.
13And 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.
14¶ Make thee an Arke of Gopher-wood: roomes shalt thou make in the
arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15And 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.
16A window shalt thou make to the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finish it
aboue; and the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the side thereof: With
lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17And behold, I, euen I doe bring a flood of waters vpon the earth, to
destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life from vnder heauen, and euery
thing that is in the earth shall die.
18But with thee wil I establish my Couenant: and thou shalt come into the
Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
19And of euery liuing thing of all flesh, two of euery sort shalt thou bring
into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shall be male and female.
20Of fowles after their kinde, and of cattel after their kinde: of euery
creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto
thee, to keepe them aliue.
21And take thou vnto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it
to thee; and it shall be for food, for thee, and for them.
22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.