Genesis · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Genesis 6 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
2 that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
3 And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men forever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
4 Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore [children] to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 And the Lord God having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,
5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
6 then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered [it] deeply.
6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
7 And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them.
7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
8 But Noah found grace before the Lord God.
8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
9 And these [are] the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noah was well-pleasing to God.
9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, Japheth.
10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
13 And the Lord God said to Noah, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.
13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
14 Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
15 And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.
15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16 Thou shalt narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above thou shalt finish it, and the door of the ark thou shalt make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories thou shalt make it.
16 You 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.
17 And behold I bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatsoever things are upon the earth shall die.
17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is on the earth will die.
18 And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
19 And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
19 Of 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.
20 Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.
20 Of 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 will come to you, to keep them alive.
21 And thou shalt take to thyself of all kinds of food which ye eat, and thou shalt gather them to thyself, and it shall be for thee and them to eat.
21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
22 And Noah did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him, so did he.
22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
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Noah
A righteous man who found favor with God and rode out the flood in an ark.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:28–9:29
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Psalm 82:6–7; 1 John 2:16; Romans 9:7–8; Nehemiah 13:24–27; Deuteronomy 7:3–4
- 3 Nehemiah 9:30; Isaiah 63:10; 1 Peter 3:18–20; Jeremiah 11:11; Galatians 5:16–24
- 4 Numbers 13:33; 1 Samuel 17:4; 2 Samuel 21:15–22; Deuteronomy 3:11; Deuteronomy 2:20–21
- 5 Matthew 15:19; Romans 1:28–31; Mark 7:21–23; Jeremiah 4:14; Jeremiah 17:9
- 6 Isaiah 63:10; 1 Samuel 15:11; Ephesians 4:30; 1 Samuel 15:29; Hebrews 3:10
- 7 Zephaniah 1:3; Psalm 37:20; Romans 3:20–22; Proverbs 16:4; Proverbs 10:27
- 8 Hebrews 4:16; Genesis 19:19; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 145:20; Luke 1:30
- 9 Hebrews 11:7; Luke 1:6; Galatians 3:11; Genesis 5:24; 2 Peter 2:5
- 10 Genesis 5:32
- 11 Ezekiel 8:17; Hosea 4:1–2; Habakkuk 2:8; Romans 2:13; Romans 3:19
- 12 Psalm 53:2–3; Proverbs 15:3; Psalm 14:1–3; Job 22:15–17; 2 Peter 2:5
- 13 Hosea 4:1–2; 1 Peter 4:7; Genesis 6:11–12; Ezekiel 7:2–6; 2 Peter 3:6–7
- 14 1 Peter 3:20; Luke 17:27; Matthew 24:38; Exodus 2:3
- 15 Genesis 7:20; Deuteronomy 3:11
- 16 Genesis 7:16; Genesis 8:6; Ezekiel 41:16; 2 Kings 9:30; Ezekiel 42:3
- 17 Genesis 7:4; 2 Peter 2:5; Genesis 7:21–23; 1 Peter 3:20; Hebrews 11:7
- 18 Hebrews 11:7; Genesis 7:7; Genesis 7:13; Genesis 17:7; Isaiah 26:20
- 19 Genesis 7:8–9; Genesis 7:15–16; Psalm 36:6; Genesis 7:2–3; Genesis 8:17
- 20 Acts 10:11–12; Genesis 2:19; John 5:40; Genesis 1:20–24; Genesis 7:8–16
- 21 Psalm 136:25; Psalm 145:16; Genesis 1:29–30; Job 40:20; Matthew 6:26
- 22 Exodus 40:16; John 15:14; John 2:5; Matthew 7:24–27; Genesis 7:5
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