¹ And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

^{2 Ref} The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

^{3 Ref} And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

^{4 Ref} There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

^{5 Ref} And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

^{6 Ref} And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

^{7 Ref} And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.