People on the Earth Become More and More Evil

6:1-8

6 Now it happened that people began to multiply in number all over the earth, and they were having daughters. 2 When those girls grew up, the sons of God saw that they were beautiful, so they chose any of them that they wanted and married them. 3 Then Yahweh said to himself, “My Spirit will not put up with human beings forever, because they are very corrupt. I will give them 120 years to repent.”

4 People called the Nephilim lived on the earth during that time and also later on. That happened when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of human beings, and those women gave birth to children for them. Their children were the Nephilim, who were the famous mighty men who lived long ago.

5 Yahweh saw that the people on the earth had become very evil, and that everything they thought about and desired was completely evil all the time. 6 As a result, he regretted that he had made them to live on the earth, and he felt very sad. 7 So he said to himself, “I will completely destroy from the earth all the people whom I created. In fact, I will destroy not only all the people, but also all the animals, including the creatures that crawl on the ground and the birds that fly in the sky, because I regret that I ever made them.” 8 But Yahweh was pleased with Noah.