DRT ~ Gn 6
The Book of Genesis | Ch. 6
1 And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and
daughters were born to them. 2 The sons of God seeing the daughters of
men, that they were fair, took themselves wives of all which they chose.
3 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. 4 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. 5 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, 6 It repented him that he had made man
on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, 7 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. 8 But Noe
found grace before the Lord. 9 These are the generations of Noe: Noe was
a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God. 10 And he
begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
11 And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.
12 And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had
corrupted its way upon the earth,) 13 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. 14 Make thee an ark of timber
planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it
within and without. 15 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. 16 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. 17 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.
18 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. 19 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. 20 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.
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. 21 And Noe
did all things which God commanded him.