Gênesis 6

Increasing Corruption on Earth

1 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, *1 Pet. 3:19,20;[Neh. 9:30;Gal. 5:16,17] "My Spirit shall not abide in*6:3 Or My Spirit shall not contend with man forever, *Ps. 78:39for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." 4 The Nephilim*6:4 Or giants were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

5 *Ps. 14:2,3The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every *ch. 8:21;Job 14:4;15:14;Ps. 51:5;Jer. 17:9;Matt. 15:19;Rom. 3:23intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And *1 Sam. 15:11;2 Sam. 24:16;Joel 2:13;[Num. 23:19;1 Sam. 15:29] the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it *Isa. 63:10;Eph. 4:30grieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them." 8 But Noah *ch. 19:19;Ex. 33:12,13,16,17found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Noah and the Flood

9 These are the generations of Noah. *ch. 7:1;Ezek. 14:14,20;2 Pet. 2:5Noah was a righteous man, *Job 1:1,8;Luke 1:6blameless in his generation. Noah *ch. 5:22,24;[Heb. 11:7]walked with God.