1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face
of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 that the sons of G-d saw the daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose.
3 And HaShem said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for
ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and
twenty years.'
4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also
after that, when the sons of G-d came in unto the daughters of men, and they
bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of
renown.
5 And HaShem saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.
6 And it repented HaShem that He had made man on the earth,
and it grieved Him at His heart.
7 And HaShem said: 'I will blot out man whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of
the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.'
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of HaShem.
9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his
generations a man righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with G-d.
10 And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 And the earth was corrupt before G-d, and the earth was
filled with violence.
12 And G-d saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for
all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
13 And G-d said unto Noah: 'The end of all flesh is come
before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I
will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou
make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits.
16 A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt
thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven;
every thing that is in the earth shall perish.
18 But I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt
come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with
thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male
and female.
20 Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after
their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every
sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and
gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.'
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that G-d commanded him, so
did he.