Sáng Thế Ký 6

The sons of God and the Nephilim

¹When people began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, ²the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.^{a 3}Then the LORD said, “My spirit will not stay in human beings forever, for they are mortal. Their days will be 120 years.”^{bc 4}The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of humans and they bore them children. These were the mighty men of old, the famous men.^d

Evil fills the earth

⁵The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil all the time. ⁶So the LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. ⁷So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human beings I have created, and with them the animals, the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the sky, for I regret that I made them.” ⁸But Noah found favor with the LORD.

Noah and the ark

⁹This is the story of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. ¹⁰Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. ¹¹Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and full of violence. ¹²God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

¹³So God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy them along with the earth. ¹⁴Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in it, and coat it inside and out with pitch.^{e 15}This is how you are to make it: the ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. ¹⁶Make a roof for the ark and finish it to 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make it with lower, middle and upper decks.^{f 17}For my part, I am about to bring the flood, water over the earth, to destroy from under the sky every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die. ¹⁸But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark: you, your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁹Bring into the ark two of every living creature, a male and a female, to keep them alive with you. ²⁰Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you, to be kept alive. ²¹Take with you every kind of food that is eaten and store it up, to be food for you and for them.” ²²Noah did everything just as God commanded him.