1 And when men began to be multiplied on [the] earth, and had begat daughters,
2 the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took wives to them of all which they had chosen.
3 And God said, My spirit shall not dwell in man without end, for he is flesh; and the days of him shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 Soothly giants were on the earth in those days, forsooth after that the sons of God entered [in] to the daughters of men, and those daughters begat; these were mighty of the world and famous men.
5 Soothly God saw that much malice of men was in [the] earth, and that all the thought of their heart was attentive, either given, to evil in all time,
6 and it repented him that he had made man in earth; and God was wary before against time to coming [or to come], and was touched with sorrow of heart within;
7 and said, I shall do away man, whom I made of nought, from the face of the earth; from man till to living things, from creeping beast till to the birds of heaven; for it repenteth me that I made them.
8 Forsooth Noah found grace before the Lord.
9 These be the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations; Noah went with God,