Genesis 6

Genesis 6:1

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

So when the world began to be much peopled, both of men and women,

Genesis 6:2

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Then even the professors of religion of the seed of the righteous Seth and Enoch, saw the daughters of the profane and godless generation of Cain and Lamech, that they were fair; and, being overtaken with their beauty, yielded so much to their lust, that, without all respect had to religion and godliness, they matched themselves carelessly in marriage with them.

Genesis 6:3

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his doys shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Therefore the Lord decreed thus with himself: I have used means enough to have reclaimed the world from their wickedness: I have taught, admonished, threatened them: all this prevails not. I will no more strive with the perverseness of man, in this kind: for, when I have all done, they are still but carnal; I will therefore set him a stint of years, before his common destruction. Unless, therefore, within a hundred and twenty years he repent him of his sins, I will then surely destroy him.

Genesis 6:4

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,

VOL. III. C and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. In those days were men, monstrous both in stature and conditions: and not the parents only, but their children; for after that the seed of the righteous had thus lawlessly joined themselves with the daughters of the wicked, and they had borne them children, even these also were men of the same hugeness and disposition, which were in those past ages much spoken of for their strength and tyranny.

Genesis 6:6

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Then God, like as a man that repenteth him of his work, purposeth to undo that which he hath wrought, by the effect seemed to our weakness, as if he repented him of man’s creation, in that he now determined to destroy him, whom he had made, and now was both grievously displeased with their sins, and yet loth to revenge.

Genesis 6:11

The earth also was corrupt before God.

Then, not only the men, but the very earth itself was defiled with their abominations, in the presence of God.

Genesis 6:14

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Make thee, by the help of workmen, an ark of the tallest pine or cedar trees, framed and planed for that purpose: thou shalt make many several partitions in the ark, and shalt cause it to be pitched within and without.

Genesis 6:15

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

And this shall be the proportion, wherein thou shalt make it; the length thereof shall be three hundred of the largest cubits, such as the tall stature of men in thy age affordeth; and the breadth fifty of the same cubits, so as the length may be six times the breadth, and ten times the height.

Genesis 6:16

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

Thou shalt make a clear light of windows in the ark; and, in the space of a cubit above them, shall be the rising of the roof thereof: the door of the ark shalt thou make in the one side thereof, not in either of the ends; and thou shalt frame it in three lofts, or floors, one above another.