Genesis 6

When the humans first started to increase on earth, women being born to them in droves,
Sons of God saw how pretty the women were, and they took wives of whomever they chose.
The Lord God said, “My spirit won’t remain in man forever, because he is flesh too.
Let the days allowed to him be six score of years, yes, one hundred and twenty will do.”
Now, the giants were on the earth back in those days, later too, when the sons of God came
Into the human women, who bore them children, all the heroes of old, men of name.

Now the Lord saw how great was man’s evil and wickedness on earth, that man’s every thought
From both heart and mind was naught but evil, all day. God was sorry that man he had wrought.
God was saddened He made man on earth, and it pained His heart. God then said, “I will blot out
Man, whom I have created, from the very surface of the earth, without any doubt.
All the men, and the beasts, creepy-crawlies, and birds which high up in the air once had soared.
For I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in eyes of the Lord.

These are the generations and line of Noah. Noah was a just and righteous man.
Blameless in his age, he walked in God’s ways, and he sired three sons: Shem, Japheth, and Ham.
Now the earth was corrupted before God, the earth was filled with violence and evildoing.
God looked down at the earth, and saw it was corrupt, for flesh had brought its own way to ruin.

The Lord told Noah, “I have decided to end all flesh. (It seems to have lost its worth.)
The earth fills with wrongdoing because of them. Hark, I bring ruin to both flesh and earth.
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood, make compartments within the ark, and cover it
With pitch on both the inside and out. This is how you shall make it: Three hundred cubits
Is to be the full length of the ark, and the breadth fifty, and thirty cubits as height.
Also, ending within one cubit of the top, be sure that you construct a skylight.
The ark’s entrance should be set into its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks.”
(A cubit measures nearly a foot and a half, in case these dimensions seem complex)

“As for me, I am going to bring the Flood– waters on earth, bringing ruin to all flesh,
All the flesh with the breath of life in it, from under the sky, all on earth shall perish.
But with you I establish my covenant: You shall come into the ark, and with you
Your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives, and from all living things, all flesh, you shall take two.
You shall take two of each sort into the ark to keep alive, male and female of each.
From birds after their kind, to every kind of cattle, and all things that crawl on the beach.
Two of each of them shall come to you, so they stay alive. As for you, take for yourself
From all food that is eaten and gather it, so you can store it away on your shelf.

It shall serve as food for you and them.” And those were the instructions of God, which He bid.
Noah did so, according to everything that God commanded of him, so he did.