4. In those days, giants lived on the earth and also afterward, when divine beings and human daughters had sexual relations and gave birth to children. These were the ancient heroes, famous men.
5. The Lord saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on the earth and that every idea their minds thought up was always completely evil.
6. The Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and he was heartbroken.
7. So the Lord said, "I will wipe off of the land the human race that I’ve created: from human beings to livestock to the crawling things to the birds in the skies, because I regret I ever made them."
8. But as for Noah, the Lord approved of him.
9. These are Noah’s descendants. In his generation, Noah was a moral and exemplary man; he walked with God.
10. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11. In God’s sight, the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence.
12. God saw that the earth was corrupt, because all creatures behaved corruptly on the earth.
13. God said to Noah, “The end has come for all creatures, since they have filled the earth with violence. I am now about to destroy them along with the earth,
14. so make a wooden ark. Make the ark with nesting places and cover it inside and out with tar.
15. This is how you should make it: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
16. Make a roof for the ark and complete it one foot from the top. Put a door in its side. In the hold below, make the second and third decks.