Verse 1
Genesis 6:1
Bible in Basic English
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And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יְהִי֙ כִּֽי הֵחֵ֣ל הָֽ/אָדָ֔ם לָ/רֹ֖ב עַל פְּנֵ֣י הָֽ/אֲדָמָ֑ה וּ/בָנ֖וֹת יֻלְּד֥וּ לָ/הֶֽם
English Translation
And it came to pass when the man began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them.
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Chapter 6 Context
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And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
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The sons of God (Elohim) saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves...
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And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his l...
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There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons...
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And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart...
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And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
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And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and...
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But Noah had grace in the eyes of God (Elohim).
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These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he wen...
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And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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And the earth was evil in God (Elohim)'s eyes and full of violent ways.
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And God (Elohim), looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become ev...
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And God (Elohim) said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doi...
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Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and...
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And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, an...
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You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are...
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For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the hea...
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But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wi...
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And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with y...
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Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will...
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And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.
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And all these things Noah did; as God (Elohim) said, so he did.
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