1 Quando as pessoas começaram a se multiplicar sobre a face da terra e tiveram filhas, 2 os filhos de Deus viram que as filhas dos homens eram bonitas e tomaram para si mulheres, aquelas que, entre todas, mais lhes agradaram. 3 Então o Senhor disse:

— O meu Espírito não agirá para sempre no ser humano, pois este é carnal; e os seus dias serão cento e vinte anos.

4 Naquele tempo havia gigantes na terra, e também depois, quando os filhos de Deus possuíram as filhas dos homens, as quais lhes deram filhos. Estes foram valentes, homens de renome, na antiguidade.

5 O Senhor viu que a maldade das pessoas havia se multiplicado na terra e que todo desígnio do coração delas era continuamente mau. 6 Então o Senhor ficou triste por haver feito o ser humano na terra, e isso lhe pesou no coração. 7 O Senhor disse:

— Farei desaparecer da face da terra o ser humano que criei. Destruirei não apenas as pessoas, mas também os animais, os seres que rastejam e as aves dos céus; porque estou triste por havê-los feito.

8 Porém Noé encontrou favor aos olhos do Senhor.

9 São estas as gerações de Noé.

Noé era homem justo e íntegro entre os seus contemporâneos; Noé andava com Deus.

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

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.

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

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.