Genesis 6:1-7

Evangelical Heritage Version

The World Descends Into Evil

6 This is what happened when mankind^[a] began to multiply on the face of the earth.^[b]

When daughters were born to people, ² the sons of God^[c] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives for themselves any of them they chose. ³ The Lord said, “My Spirit will not struggle^[d] with man forever, because he is only flesh.^[e] His days will be 120 years.” ⁴ The Nephilim^[f] were on the earth in those days. After that, the sons of God went to the daughters of men, who bore children for them. Those became the powerful, famous men of ancient times.

⁵ The Lord saw that the wickedness of mankind was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts and plans they formed in their hearts were only evil every day. ⁶ The Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with sorrow.^{[g] 7} The Lord said, “I will wipe out mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, along with the animals, the creeping things, and the birds of the sky, because I regret that I have made them.”