The Bible
Genesis Chapter 6
1It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2that God
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9This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God
10Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11The earth was corrupt before God
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14Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
15This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
17I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
19Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
20Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
21Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them." 22Thus Noah did. According to all that God
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