THE WORD OF ELOHIM
GENESIS
Chapter 6
When men began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them, the divine beings saw how beautiful the daughters of men were and took wives from among those that pleased them.― Yehovah said, "My breath shall not abide in man forever, since he too is flesh; let the days allowed him be one hundred and twenty years."―It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth―when the divine beings cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were heroes of old, the men of renown.
Yehovah saw how great was man's wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time. And Yehovah regretted that He had made man on earth, and His heart was saddened. Yehovah said, "I will blot out from the earth, the men whom I created―men together with beasts, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I regret that I made them." But Noach found favor with Yehovah.
This is the line of Noach.―Noach was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noach walked with Elohim.―Noach begot three sons: Shem, Cham, and Yaphet.
The earth became corrupt before Elohim; the earth was filled with lawlessness. When Elohim saw how corrupt the earth was, for all flesh had corrupted its ways on earth, Elohim said to Noach, "I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness, because of them: I am about to destroy them, with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make it an ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. Make an opening for daylight in the ark, and terminate it within a cubit of the top. Put the entrance to the ark in its side; make it with bottom, second, and third decks.
For My part; I am about to bring the flood―waters upon the earth―to destroy all flesh under the sky, in which there is breath of life; everything on earth shall perish. But I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall enter the ark, with your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives. And of all that lives, of all flesh, you shall take two of each into the ark, to keep alive with you; they shall be male and female. From birds of every kind, cattle of every kind, every kind of creeping thing on earth; two of each shall come to you, to stay alive. For your part; take of everything that is eaten and store it away, to serve as food for you and for them." Noach did so; just as Elohim commanded him, so he did.