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 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with "humans forever, for they are mortal "; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days —and also afterward —when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

6 The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created —and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground —for I regret that I have made them."

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

9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.