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1This is what happened when mankind began to multiply on the face of the earth.[#6:1 Mankind is literally the adam. The Hebrew word adam may be translated man, men, mankind, or Adam.; #6:1 The word for earth here is adamah, that is, the soil or ground.]
When daughters were born to people,
2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives for themselves any of them they chose.[#6:2 The sons of God were the descendants of Seth. They were marrying the daughters of the ungodly line of Cain and of those who followed in Cain's way.]
3The Lord said, “My Spirit will not struggle with man forever, because he is only flesh. His days will be 120 years.”[#6:3 Or remain with; #6:3 The term flesh may refer to both sinfulness and mortality.]
4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days. After that, the sons of God went to the daughters of men, who bore children for them. Those became the powerful, famous men of ancient times.[#6:4 is simply a transliteration of the Hebrew word. Its meaning is uncertain, but it is explained by the last sentence of the verse. There can be no direct connection with the Nephilim in Canaan after the flood.]
5The Lord saw that the wickedness of mankind was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts and plans they formed in their hearts were only evil every day.
6The Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with sorrow.[#6:6 The exact force of the two verbs in this verse is difficult to render in English. God's regret and grief are not simply his sorrow over sin and its consequences, but that he will now change his course of action.]
7The Lord said, “I will wipe out mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, along with the animals, the creeping things, and the birds of the sky, because I regret that I have made them.”
8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord .
9This is the account about the development of Noah's family.
Noah was a righteous man, a man of integrity in that generation. Noah walked with God.
10Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11In the sight of God the earth was morally corrupt, and the earth was filled with violence.
12God looked at the earth and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh was corrupt in all their ways on the earth.
13So God said to Noah:
22So that is what Noah did. He did everything that God commanded him, just as he had been told.