Chapter 6

Man's sins cause of the deluge. ℣.4 Giants were then upon the earth. ℣.8 Noe being just was commanded to build the Ark, ℣.18 wherein he with seven persons more, and the seed of other living things were saved.

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   And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and had procreation of daughters,

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   the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives out of all which they had chosen.

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   And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh: and his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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   And Giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God did company with the daughters of men, & they brought forth children, these be the mighty of the old world, famous men.

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   And God seeing the malice of men was much on the earth, & that all the cogitation of their heart was bent to evil at all times,

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   it repented him that he had made man on the earth. And touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,

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   I will, saith he, clean take away man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from that which creepeth even unto the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them.

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   But Noe found grace before our Lord.

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   These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he did walk with God.

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    And he begat three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

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    And the earth was corrupted before God, & was replenished with iniquity.

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    And when God had perceived that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth)

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    He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is replenished with iniquity from the face of them, and I will destroy them with the earth.

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    Make thee an ark of timber plank: cabinets shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with bitume.

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    And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the Ark shall be three hundred cubits: fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.

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    Thou shalt make a window in the ark, & in a cubit finish the top of it: & the door of the ark thou shalt set at the side below, middle chambers & third lofts shalt thou make in it.

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    Behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, that I may destroy all flesh wherein there is breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.

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    And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

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    And of all living creatures of all flesh, thou shalt bring pairs into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex and the female.

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    Of fowls according to their kind, and beasts in their kind, and of all that creepeth on the earth, according to their kind: pairs of all sorts shall enter in with thee, that they may live.

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    Thou shalt take therefore with thee of all meats, that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay them up with thee: & they shall be meat for thee and them.

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    Noe therefore did all things which God commanded him.