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Genesis 6:3-7 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

3. And God said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

4. Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived, these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown.

5. Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times,

6. repented that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with a sorrow of heart,

7. he said, "I will eliminate man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man to other living things, from animals even to the flying things of the air. For it grieves me that I have made them."