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Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years."^[a]

During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.

⁵ The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time. ⁶ The Lord was sorry that he had made people on the earth. It made him very sad in his heart. ⁷ So the Lord said, "I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them."

⁸ But Noah pleased the Lord.

Noah and the Great Flood

⁹ This is the history of Noah's family. He was a good man all his life, and he always followed God. ¹⁰ Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.^11-12 When God looked at the earth, he saw that people had ruined it. Violence was everywhere, and it had ruined their life on earth.

¹³ So God said to Noah, "Everyone has filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth. ¹⁴ Use cypress wood^[b] and build a boat for yourself. Make rooms in the boat and cover it with tar inside and out.

¹⁵ "This is the size I want you to make the boat: 300 cubits^[c] long, 50 cubits^[d] wide, and 30 cubits^[e] high. ¹⁶ Make a window for the boat about 1 cubit^[f] below the roof.^[g] Put a door in the side of the boat. Make three floors in the boat: a top deck, a middle deck, and a lower deck.

¹⁷ "Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die. ¹⁸ I will make a special agreement with you. You, your wife, your sons, and their wives will all go into the boat. ¹⁹ Also, you will take two of every living thing on the earth with you into the boat. Take a male and female of every kind of animal so that they might survive with you. ²⁰ Two of every kind of bird, animal, and creeping thing will come to you so that you might keep them alive. ²¹ Also bring every kind of food into the boat, for you and for the animals."

²² Noah did everything God commanded him.