1 Quando os homens começaram a multiplicar-se na terra e lhes nasceram filhas,

2 os filhos de Deus viram que as filhas dos homens eram bonitas e escolheram para si aquelas que lhes agradaram.

3 Então disse o Senhor: "Por causa da perversidade do homem, meu Espírito não contenderá com ele para sempre; e ele só viverá cento e vinte anos".

4 Naqueles dias havia nefilins na terra, e também posteriormente, quando os filhos de Deus possuíram as filhas dos homens e elas lhes deram filhos. Eles foram os heróis do passado, homens famosos.

5 O Senhor viu que a perversidade do homem tinha aumentado na terra e que toda a inclinação dos pensamentos do seu coração era sempre e somente para o mal.

6 Então o Senhor arrependeu-se de ter feito o homem sobre a terra; e isso cortou-lhe o coração.

7 Disse o Senhor: "Farei desaparecer da face da terra o homem que criei, os homens e também os animais grandes, os animais pequenos e as aves do céu. Arrependo-me de havê-los feito".

8 A Noé, porém, o Senhor mostrou benevolência.

9 Esta é a história da família de Noé: Noé era homem justo, íntegro entre o povo da sua época; ele andava com Deus.

1 And it came to pass when men had begun to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters had been born to them,

2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men! that they were, fair,so they took to themselves wives of whomsoever they chose,

3 And Yahweh saidMy spirit shall not rule in man to times ageabiding, for that, he also, is flesh,Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

4 The giants, were in the each in these days, and also, after that, when the sons of God began to go in unto the daughters of men, and sons were born to them, the same, were the heroes that were from age-past times the men of renown.

5 Then Yahweh saw that great, was the wickedness of man in the earth, and that, every purpose of the devices of his heart, was only wicked all the day;

6 and it grieved Yahweh, that he had made man in the earth,and he took sorrow unto his heart.

7 And Yahweh saidI must wipe off man whom I created from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens,for I am grieved that I made them.

8 But, Noah, had found favour in the eyes, of Yahweh.

9 These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations,with God, did Noah walk.