Genesis 6:1-7

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The Lord Will Send a Flood

6 ^1-2^(A) More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings^[a] came down and married the ones they wanted. ³Then the Lord said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever.^[b] No one will live for more than 120 years.”^[c]

⁴^(B)^(C) The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.

⁵^(D) The Lord saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil. ⁶He was sorry that he had made them, ⁷and he said, “I'm going to destroy every person on earth! I'll even wipe out animals, birds, and reptiles. I'm sorry I ever made them.”

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Footnotes

6.1,2 supernatural beings: Or “angels.”
6.3 I won't … forever: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
6.3 No one … years: Or “In fact, they will all be destroyed in about 100 years” (that is, at the time of the flood).