1 Quando os homens começaram a multiplicar-se sobre a terra, e lhes nasceram filhas,
2 os filhos de Deus viram que as filhas dos homens eram belas, e escolheram esposas entre elas.
3 O senhor então disse: "Meu espírito não permanecerá para sempre no homem, porque todo ele é carne, e a duração de sua vida será de cento e vinte anos."
4 Naquele tempo viviam gigantes na terra, como também daí por diante, quando os filhos de Deus se uniam às filhas dos homens e elas geravam filhos. Estes são os heróis, tão afamados nos tempos antigos.
5 O Senhor viu que a maldade dos homens era grande na terra, e que todos os pensamentos de seu coração estavam continuamente voltados para o mal.
6 O Senhor arrependeu-se de ter criado o homem na terra, e teve o coração ferido de íntima dor.
7 E disse: "Exterminarei da superfície da terra o homem que criei, e com ele os animais, os répteis e as aves dos céus, porque eu me arrependo de os haver criado."
8 Noé, entretanto, encontrou graça aos olhos do Senhor.
9 Esta é a história de Noé. Noé era um homem justo e perfeito no meio dos homens de sua geração. Ele andava com Deus.
1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with "humans forever, for they are mortal "; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days —and also afterward —when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
6 The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created —and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground —for I regret that I have made them."
8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.