Genesis 6

1When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,Cross-references: Gen 1:28

2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Gen 4:26 · Gen 24:3 · Gen 27:46 · Gen 39:6 · Ex 4:22 · +20 more

3Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”Cross-references: Num 11:17 · Neh 9:30 · Ps 78:39 · Isa 5:4 · Isa 63:10 · Jer 11:7 · +8 more

4The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.Cross-references: Gen 11:4 · Num 13:33 · Num 16:2 · Deut 2:20 · Deut 3:11 · 1Sam 17:4 · +1 more

5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.Cross-references: Gen 8:21 · Gen 13:13 · Gen 18:20 · Deut 29:19 · Job 15:16 · Ps 14:1 · +14 more

6Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.Cross-references: Ex 32:14 · Num 23:19 · Deut 5:29 · Deut 32:29 · Deut 32:36 · 1Sam 15:11 · +26 more

7Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”Cross-references: Ps 24:1 · Ps 37:20 · Prov 10:27 · Prov 16:4 · Jer 4:22 · Jer 12:3 · +3 more

8But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.Cross-references: Gen 19:19 · Ex 33:12 · Ps 84:11 · Ps 145:20 · Prov 3:4 · Prov 8:35 · +13 more

9This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.Cross-references: Gen 2:4 · Gen 5:1 · Gen 5:22 · Gen 5:24 · Gen 7:1 · Gen 10:1 · +24 more

10Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.Cross-references: Gen 5:32

11The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.Cross-references: Gen 7:1 · Gen 10:9 · Gen 13:13 · 2Chr 34:27 · Ps 11:5 · Ps 55:9 · +12 more

12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.Cross-references: Gen 6:4 · Gen 6:8 · Gen 7:1 · Gen 7:21 · Gen 9:12 · Gen 9:16 · +10 more

13God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.Cross-references: Gen 6:4 · Gen 6:11 · Gen 7:23 · Gen 49:5 · Jer 4:23 · Jer 51:13 · +7 more

14Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.Cross-references: Ex 2:3 · Matt 24:38 · Luke 17:27 · 1Pet 3:20

15This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.Cross-references: Gen 7:20 · Deut 3:11

16You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.Cross-references: Gen 7:16 · Gen 8:6 · 2Sam 6:16 · 2Ki 9:30 · Ezek 41:16 · Ezek 42:3 · +1 more

17I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Gen 6:7 · Gen 6:13 · Gen 7:4 · Gen 7:15 · Gen 7:17 · +26 more

18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.Cross-references: Gen 7:1 · Gen 7:7 · Gen 7:13 · Gen 9:9 · Gen 17:4 · Gen 17:7 · +5 more

19Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.Cross-references: Gen 7:2 · Gen 7:8 · Gen 7:15 · Gen 8:17 · Ps 36:6

20Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.Cross-references: Gen 1:20 · Gen 1:28 · Gen 2:19 · Gen 7:8 · John 5:40 · Acts 10:11

21Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”Cross-references: Gen 1:29 · Job 38:41 · Job 40:20 · Ps 35:6 · Ps 104:27 · Ps 136:25 · +3 more

22Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.Cross-references: Gen 7:5 · Gen 7:9 · Gen 7:16 · Gen 17:23 · Ex 40:16 · Ex 40:19 · +11 more