Genesis 6

Genesis 6

Genesis 6:1 It happened when humanity began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them.

Genesis 6:2 Sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

Genesis 6:3 Then Yahveh said, “My Breath will not stay with humanity permanently, since he is easily misled[1] flesh: his days will be 120 years.”

Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were in the land in those days, and also later, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they gave birth to their children. These were the mighty ones who were ancient, famous men.

Genesis 6:5 Yahveh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the land, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:6 And Yahveh was sorry that he had made man on the land, and it grieved him to his heart.

Genesis 6:7 So Yahveh said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and living things and moving things and birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 6:8 But Noah found favor[2] in the eyes of Yahveh.

Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:11 Now the land was corrupt in God’s sight, and the land was filled with violence.

Genesis 6:12 And God saw the land, and noticed that it was corrupt, because every flesh had corrupted his way in the land.

Genesis 6:13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of every flesh, because the land is filled with violence through them. Notice, I will destroy them with the land.

Genesis 6:14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark and cover it inside and out with pitch.

Genesis 6:15 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.

Genesis 6:16 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

Genesis 6:17 Because notice, I will bring a flood of waters upon the land to destroy every flesh in which is the breath of life under the sky. Everything that is on the land will die.

Genesis 6:18 Now I will build my covenant with you, and you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 6:19 And from everything alive of all flesh, you will bring two of every type into the ark to keep them alive with you. There will be a male and a female.

Genesis 6:20 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the living things according to their kinds, of every moving thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every type will come in to you in order to keep them alive.

Genesis 6:21 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten and store it up. It will serve as food for you and for them.”

6:22 Noah did so; he did all that God commanded him.

[1] שָׁגָג = be easily misled.

[2] חֵן = favor. Genesis 6:8; 18:3; 19:19; 30:27; 32:5; 33:8, 10, 15; 34:11; 39:4, 21; 47:25, 29; 50:4.

Genesis 6 quotes:

“According to Genesis, the Ark built by Noah was approximately 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high (Genesis 6:15). This results in an inside capacity of around 1.5 million cubic feet. Remarkably, it has been shown scientifically that it would have been practically impossible to capsize the Ark. Isn’t this a rather large vessel for eight people and some local animals, if it was only going to be a local flood?”

Forlow, Stephen Bradley. Five Evidences for a Global Flood. Institute for Creation Research, 2011. p. 13.

“This period in early civilization is called the age of conscience. There was no outward restraint upon the conduct of man, either directly from God or internally from human society. Each individual could do basically as he pleased. Thus did God test man to reveal what was in his heart. Genesis 6:5 states the result of this examination: “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth.””

Flint, V. Paul. Strangers & Pilgrims : A Study of Genesis. 1st ed., Loizeaux Bros, 1988. p. 50.

“One of the most amazing facts revealed by paleontology (the study of fossilized remains of creatures which inhabited the earth in a former age) is that nearly all modern animals were once represented by larger ancestors. One thinks of the mammoths and cave bears, giant cockroaches and dragonflies and huge reptiles like the dinosaurs. Along with these are occasionally found fossilized giant human footprints, suggesting indeed that “there were giants in the earth in those days” (Genesis 6:4). Ancient traditions seem to recall a day when giants were known on the earth, and it is only a superficial sophistication which ignores the possibility that these may contain primitive reflections of the real events and characters described historically in the Genesis records.”

Morris, Henry M. The Beginning of the World. Accent Books, 1977. p. 91.