Genesis 5:21-6:8

New International Version

²¹ When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.^{(A) 22} After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God^(B) 300 years and had other sons and daughters. ²³ Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. ²⁴ Enoch walked faithfully with God;^(C) then he was no more, because God took him away.^(D)

²⁵ When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.^{(E) 26} After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. ²⁷ Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

²⁸ When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. ²⁹ He named him Noah^[a](F) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.^(G)” ³⁰ After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. ³¹ Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

³² After Noah was 500 years old,^(H) he became the father of Shem,^(I) Ham and Japheth.^(J)

Wickedness in the World

6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth^(K) and daughters were born to them, ² the sons of God^(L) saw that the daughters^(M) of humans were beautiful,^(N) and they married^(O) any of them they chose. ³ Then the Lord said, “My Spirit^(P) will not contend with^[b] humans forever,^(Q) for they are mortal^[c];^(R) their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

⁴ The Nephilim^(S) were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans^(T) and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.^(U)

⁵ The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth,^(V) and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.^{(W) 6} The Lord regretted^(X) that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. ⁷ So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth^(Y) the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.^(Z)” ⁸ But Noah^(AA) found favor in the eyes of the Lord.^(AB)