8. But Noah found favor with the Lord.
9. These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
10. Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11. But the earth was corrupt in the view of God and full of lawlessness.
12. When God saw how corrupt the earth had become, since all mortals had corrupted their ways on earth,
13. God said to Noah: I see that the end of all mortals has come, for the earth is full of lawlessness because of them. So I am going to destroy them with the earth.
14. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood, equip the ark with various compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
15. This is how you shall build it: the length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16. Make an opening for daylight and finish the ark a cubit above it. Put the ark’s entrance on its side; you will make it with bottom, second and third decks.
17. I, on my part, am about to bring the flood waters on the earth, to destroy all creatures under the sky in which there is the breath of life; everything on earth shall perish.
18. I will establish my covenant with you. You shall go into the ark, you and your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives with you.