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Genesis 5:21-6:8
New International Version
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)
Footnotes
- Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.
- Genesis 6:3 Or My spirit will not remain in
- Genesis 6:3 Or corrupt
Genesis 5:21-6:8
King James Version
Genesis 5:21-6:8
King James Version
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God 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 the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
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