¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

^{2 Ref} that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.

^{3 Ref} And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

^{4 Ref} The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

^{5 Ref} And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

^{6 Ref} And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

^{7 Ref} And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

^{8 Ref} But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.