Evil Increases on the Earth

6:1-8

6 And it happened when mankind began to multiply on the surface of the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 then the sons of God saw the daughters of mankind, that they were beautiful, so they took wives for themselves from any of them that they chose. 3 Then Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with mankind forever, because they are indeed flesh. Therefore their days will be 120 years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also after that, when the sons of God went to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children for them. They were the mighty ones who were from long ago, the men of renown.

5 And Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil all day long. 6 So Yahweh was sorry that he had made mankind on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart. 7 Then Yahweh said, “I will wipe away mankind whom I created off the surface of the ground, both mankind and animals, and crawling creatures and the birds of the sky, because I am sorry that I made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.