4. In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.
5. When the Lord saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,
6. he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret
7. that he said, “I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them.”