Genesis 6:4-12

Christian Standard Bible

⁴ The Nephilim^[a] were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

Judgment Decreed

⁵ When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,^{(A) 6} the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth,^(B) and he was deeply grieved. ⁷ Then the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.” ⁸ Noah, however, found favor with the Lord.^(C)

God Warns Noah

⁹ These are the family records^(D) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man,^(E) blameless among his contemporaries;^(F) Noah walked with God.^{(G) 10} And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.^{[b] 12} God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth.^(H)