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 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives. 3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years." 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. 7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.