1 Quando os homens começaram a multiplicar-se na terra e lhes nasceram filhas,

2 os filhos de Deus viram que as filhas dos homens eram bonitas e escolheram para si aquelas que lhes agradaram.

3 Então disse o Senhor: "Por causa da perversidade do homem, meu Espírito não contenderá com ele para sempre; e ele só viverá cento e vinte anos".

4 Naqueles dias havia nefilins na terra, e também posteriormente, quando os filhos de Deus possuíram as filhas dos homens e elas lhes deram filhos. Eles foram os heróis do passado, homens famosos.

5 O Senhor viu que a perversidade do homem tinha aumentado na terra e que toda a inclinação dos pensamentos do seu coração era sempre e somente para o mal.

6 Então o Senhor arrependeu-se de ter feito o homem sobre a terra; e isso cortou-lhe o coração.

7 Disse o Senhor: "Farei desaparecer da face da terra o homem que criei, os homens e também os animais grandes, os animais pequenos e as aves do céu. Arrependo-me de havê-los feito".

8 A Noé, porém, o Senhor mostrou benevolência.

9 Esta é a história da família de Noé: Noé era homem justo, íntegro entre o povo da sua época; ele andava com Deus.

1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto 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 unto the daughters of men, and they bare 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 repenteth 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.