Gênesis 6

People became very evil and did many evil things

1 When people began to become very numerous all over the earth, and many daughters were born to them, 2 some of the men who ◄belonged to/believed in► God saw that some of the women who did not ◄belong to/believe in► God were very beautiful. So they took whichever ones they chose to become their wives. 3 Then Yahweh said, "I will not allow my Spirit to keep people alive forever (OR, the breath of life will not remain in people forever). They will die eventually. They will live not more than 120 years before they die (OR, there will be only 120 more years before they die)."

4 There were giants called Nephils who lived on the earth at that time and later. During that time some of the Nephil men who ◄belonged to/believed in► God had sex [EUP] with women who did not ◄belong to/believe in► God, and they gave birth to children. The Nephils were considered to be heroic fighters, and they became famous.

5 Yahweh saw that people on the earth had become very wicked, and that everything they thought about evil things continually. 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made people. 7 So he said, "I will completely destroy the people I made. I will also destroy all the animals and the creatures that scurry across the ground and the birds. None of them will remain on the earth, because I regret that I made them."

Noah pleased God, so God planned to spare him

8 But Yahweh was pleased with Noah. 9 This is why: Noah was a man who always acted in a righteous way. No one who lived at that time could criticize him about anything. Noah lived in close fellowship with God.