The Lord Will Send a Flood

^1-2More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.[#Job 1.6; 2.1.; #6.1,2 Or “angels.”]

³Then the Lord said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than 120 years.”[#6.3 One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.; #6.3 Or “In fact, they will all be destroyed in about 100 years” (that is, at the time of the flood).]

⁴The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.[#Nu 13.33; Si 16.7; Ba 3.26.; #3 Macc 2.4.]

⁵The Lord saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.[#Mt 24.37; Lk 17.26; 1 P 3.20.]

⁶He was sorry that he had made them,

⁷and he said, “I'm going to destroy every person on earth! I'll even wipe out animals, birds, and reptiles. I'm sorry I ever made them.”

⁸But the Lord was pleased with Noah,

⁹and this is the story about him. Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God.[#Si 44.17,18; 2 P 2.5.]

¹⁰He had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

^11-12God knew that everyone was terribly cruel and violent.

¹³So he told Noah:

²²Noah did everything God told him to do.[#He 11.7.]