1 Toe die mense op die aarde begin vermeerder en daar vir hulle dogters gebore is,
2 sien die seuns van God dat die dogters van die mense mooi was, en hulle het vir hulle as vroue geneem almal wat hulle verkies het.
3 Toe sê die HERE: My Gees sal nie vir ewig in die mens heers nie, omdat hy ook vlees is; maar sy dae sal wees honderd en twintig jaar.
4 In die dae was die reuse op die aarde, en ook daarna, toe die seuns van God by die dogters van die mense ingegaan en die vir hulle kinders gebaar het. Dit is die geweldiges uit die ou tyd, die manne van naam.
5 Toe die HERE sien dat die boosheid van die mens op die aarde groot was en al die versinsels wat hy in sy hart bedink, altyddeur net sleg was,
6 het dit die HERE berou dat Hy die mens op die aarde gemaak het, en daar was smart in Sy hart.
7 En die HERE sê: Ek sal die mens wat Ek geskape het, van die aarde verdelg, die mens sowel as die vee en die kruipende diere en die voëls van die hemel; want dit berou My dat Ek hulle gemaak het.
8 Maar Noag het genade gevind in die oë van die HERE.
9 Dit is die geskiedenis van Noag. Noag was 'n regverdige, opregte man onder sy tydgenote. Noag het met God gewandel.
10 En Noag het drie seuns gehad: Sem, Gam en Jafet.
11 Maar die aarde was verdorwe voor die aangesig van God, en die aarde was vol geweld.
12 Toe sien God die aarde aan, en -- dit was verdorwe, want alle vlees het sy wandel op die aarde verderwe.
13 En God sê vir Noag: Die einde van alle vlees het volgens my besluit gekom; want die aarde is deur hulle vervul met geweld. En kyk, Ek gaan hulle saam met die aarde verdelg.
14 Maak vir jou 'n ark van goferhout. Met afdelings moet jy die ark maak en dit binne en buite met pik bestryk.
15 So moet jy dit maak: drie honderd el die lengte van die ark, vyftig el sy breedte en dertig el sy hoogte.
16 'n Opening moet jy aan die ark maak; en op die maat van 'n el moet jy dit aan die bokant afwerk en die deur van die ark aan die sykant insit. Jy moet dit met 'n onderste, tweede en derde verdieping maak.
17 Want kyk, Âk bring 'n watervloed oor die aarde, om van onder die hemel te verdelg alle vlees waar 'n lewensgees in is. Alles wat op die aarde is, sal wegsterwe.
18 Maar met jou sal Ek my verbond oprig; jy moet in die ark gaan, jy en jou seuns en jou vrou en die vroue van jou seuns saam met jou.
19 En van al wat lewe, van alle vlees, moet jy twee van elke soort in die ark laat ingaan om dit saam met jou in die lewe te hou: mannetjie en wyfie moet hulle wees.
20 Van die voëls volgens hulle soorte en van die vee volgens hulle soorte, van al die kruipende diere van die aarde volgens hulle soorte, twee van elke soort, moet na jou kom om in die lewe te bly.
21 En jy, neem vir jou van al die voedsel wat geëet word, en versamel dit by jou, dat dit vir jou en hulle as voedsel kan dien.
22 En Noag het dit gedoen. Net soos God hom beveel het, so het hy gedoen.
1 And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
6 And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
8 But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.
9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
12 And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.
15 And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
16 You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.
17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
18 But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
19 And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.
20 Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.
21 And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.
22 And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.