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

2 os filhos de Deus viram que as filhas dos homens eram belas, e escolheram esposas entre elas.

3 O senhor então disse: "Meu espírito não permanecerá para sempre no homem, porque todo ele é carne, e a duração de sua vida será de cento e vinte anos."

4 Naquele tempo viviam gigantes na terra, como também daí por diante, quando os filhos de Deus se uniam às filhas dos homens e elas geravam filhos. Estes são os heróis, tão afamados nos tempos antigos.

5 O Senhor viu que a maldade dos homens era grande na terra, e que todos os pensamentos de seu coração estavam continuamente voltados para o mal.

6 O Senhor arrependeu-se de ter criado o homem na terra, e teve o coração ferido de íntima dor.

7 E disse: "Exterminarei da superfície da terra o homem que criei, e com ele os animais, os répteis e as aves dos céus, porque eu me arrependo de os haver criado."

8 Noé, entretanto, encontrou graça aos olhos do Senhor.

9 Esta é a história de Noé. Noé era um homem justo e perfeito no meio dos homens de sua geração. 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.