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

2 viram os filhos de Deus que as filhas dos homens eram formosas, e tomaram para si mulheres de todas as que escolheram.

3 Então disse Jeová: O meu espírito não permanecerá para sempre no homem; por causa do seu errar é ele carne; portanto os seus dias serão cento e vinte anos.

4 Ora naqueles dias estavam os Nefilins na terra, e também depois, quando os filhos de Deus conheceram as filhas dos homens, as quais lhes deram filhos. Os Nefilins eram os valentes que houve na antiguidade, varões de renome.

5 Viu Jeová que era grande a maldade do homem na terra, e que toda a imaginação dos pensamentos do seu coração era má continuamente.

6 Então se arrependeu Jeová de ter feito o homem na terra, e pesou-lhe em seu coração.

7 Disse Jeová: Farei desaparecer da face da terra o homem que criei, desde o homem até o animal, até os répteis e até as aves do céu; porque me arrependo de os haver feito.

8 Porém Noé achou graça aos olhos de Jeová.

9 Estas são as gerações de Noé. Noé foi um homem justo e perfeito nas suas gerações: Noé andou com Deus.

1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.