¹ And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

² The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

³ And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

⁴ There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

⁶ And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

⁷ And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

⁸ But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

¹⁰ And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

¹² And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.

¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

¹⁴ Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

¹⁵ And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

¹⁶ You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.

¹⁷ For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

¹⁸ But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

¹⁹ And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.

²⁰ Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

²¹ And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

²² And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.

¹ Awake, Awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

² Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.

³ For thus says Yahweh, "You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money."

⁴ For thus says the Lord Yahweh, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

⁵ "Now therefore, what do I here," says Yahweh, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? those who rule over them mock," says Yahweh, "and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.

⁶ Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I."

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

⁸ The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.

⁹ Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

¹¹ Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.

¹² For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

¹³ Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

¹⁴ Like as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),

¹⁵ so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.