1 And it came to pass, when man began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of man that they were fair; and they took for themselves wives of all who they chose.3 And Yahweh said, My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh: and his days will be 120 years.4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man, and they bore [children] to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.5 And Yahweh 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 And it repented Yahweh that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.7 And Yahweh 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 repents me that I have made them.8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, [and] perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.