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And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them.
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The sons of God seeing the daughters of men , that they were fair, took themselves wives of all which they chose.
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And God said : My spirit shall not remain in man for ever , because he is flesh , and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
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Now giants were upon the earth in those days . For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and they brought forth children , these are the mighty men of old , men of renown.
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And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth , and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
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It repented him that he had made man on the earth . And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart ,
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He said : I will destroy man, whom I have created , from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts , from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air , for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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But Noe found grace before the Lord .
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These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations , he walked with God .
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And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth .
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And the earth was corrupted before God , and was filled with iniquity .
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And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth ,)
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He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth .
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Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.
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And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side : with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.
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Behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth , to destroy all flesh , wherein is the breath of life , under heaven . All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.
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And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife , and the wives of thy sons with thee.
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And of every living creature of all flesh , thou shalt bring two of each sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female .
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Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on earth according to its kind; two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
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Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten , and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
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And Noe did all things which God commanded him.