Genesis 6

vayehi ki-hekhel ha'adam larov al-pene ha'adamah uvanot yulledu lahem

When humankind began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them,

vayyiru vene-ha'elohim et-benot ha'adam ki tovot hennah vayyiqkhu lahem nashim mikkol asher bakharu

the divine beings saw how pleasing the human women were and took wives from among those who delighted them.—

vayyomer Adonai lo-yadon rukhi va'adam le'olam beshaggam hu vasar vehayu yamayw me'ah ve'esrim shanah

GOD said, “My breath shall not abide in humankind forever, since it too is flesh; let the days allowed them be one hundred and twenty years.”—

hannefilim hayu va'arets bayyamim hahem vegam akhare-khen asher yavo'u bene ha'elohim el-benot ha'adam veyaledu lahem hemmah haggibborim asher me'olam anshe hashem

It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth—when divine beings cohabited with the human women, who bore them offspring. Such were the heroes of old, the men of renown.

vayyar Adonai ki rabbah ra'at ha'adam ba'arets vekhol-yetser makhshevot libbo raq ra kol-hayyom

GOD saw how great was human wickedness on earth—how every plan devised by the human mind was nothing but evil all the time.

vayyinnakhem Adonai ki-asah et-ha'adam ba'arets vayyitatsev el-libbo

And GOD regretted having made humankind on earth. With a sorrowful heart,

vayyomer Adonai emkheh et-ha'adam asher-barati me'al pene ha'adamah me'adam ad-behemah ad-remes ve'ad-of hashamayim ki nikhamti ki asitim

GOD said, “I will blot out from the earth humankind whom I created—humans together with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I regret that I made them.”

venoakh matsa khen be'ene Adonai

But Noah found favor with GOD.

elleh toledot noakh noakh ish tsaddiq tamim hayah bedorotayw et-ha'elohim hithallekh-noakh

This is the line of Noah.—Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.—

vayyoled noakh sheloshah vanim et-shem et-kham ve'et-yafet

Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

vattishakhet ha'arets lifne ha'elohim vattimmale ha'arets khamas

The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was filled with lawlessness.

vayyar elohim et-ha'arets vehinneh nishkhatah ki-hishkhit kol-basar et-darko al-ha'arets

When God saw how corrupt the earth was, for all flesh had corrupted its ways on earth,

vayyomer elohim lenoakh qets kol-basar ba lefanay ki-male'ah ha'arets khamas mippenehem vehinni mashkhitam et-ha'arets

God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness because of them: I am about to destroy them with the earth.

aseh lekha tevat atse-gofer qinnim ta'aseh et-hattevah vekhafarta otah mibbayit umikhuts bakkofer

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make it an ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

vezeh asher ta'aseh otah shelosh me'ot ammah orekh hattevah khamishim ammah rokhbah usheloshim ammah qomatah

This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

tsohar ta'aseh lattevah ve'el-ammah tekhallennah milmalah ufetakh hattevah betsiddah tasim takhtiyyim sheniyyim ushelishim ta'aseha

Make an opening for daylight in the ark, and terminate it within a cubit of the top. Put the entrance to the ark in its side; make it with bottom, second, and third decks.

va'ani hinni mevi et-hammabbul mayim al-ha'arets leshakhet kol-basar asher-bo ruakh khayyim mittakhat hashamayim kol asher-ba'arets yigva

“For My part, I am about to bring the Flood—waters upon the earth—to destroy all flesh under the sky in which there is breath of life; everything on earth shall perish.

vahaqimoti et-beriti ittakh uvata el-hattevah attah uvanekha ve'ishtekha uneshe-vanekha ittakh

But I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall enter the ark, with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives.

umikkol-hakhay mikkol-basar shenayim mikkol tavi el-hattevah lehakhayot ittakh zakhar uneqevah yihyu

And of all that lives, of all flesh, you shall take two of each into the ark to keep alive with you; they shall be male and female.

meha'of leminehu umin-habbehemah leminah mikkol remes ha'adamah leminehu shenayim mikkol yavo'u elekha lehakhayot

From birds of every kind, cattle of every kind, every kind of creeping thing on earth, two of each shall come to you to stay alive.

ve'attah qakh-lekha mikkol-ma'akhal asher ye'akhel ve'asafta elekha vehayah lekha velahem le'okhlah

For your part, take of everything that is eaten and store it away, to serve as food for you and for them.”

vayya'as noakh kekhol asher tsivvah oto elohim ken asah

Noah did so; just as God commanded him, so he did.