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.