Genesis 6:1-7

Lexham English Bible

Prelude to the Flood

6 And it happened that, when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them. ² Then^[a] the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose. ³ And Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴ The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them.

⁵ And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind was great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was always^[b] only evil. ⁶ And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart.^{[c] 7} And Yahweh said, “I will destroy humankind whom I created from upon the face of the earth, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven,^[d] for I regret that I have made them.”