Genesis 6 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 So when men began to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,
1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
2 Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, and they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
3 Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeeres.
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 There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.
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 When the Lord sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill 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 it repented ye Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorie in his heart.
6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
7 Therefore ye Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I haue created, from man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: for I repent that I haue 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 in the eyes of the Lord.
8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with 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 begate three sonnes, Shem, Ham and Iapheth.
10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.
11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon 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 God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with 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 thee an Arke of pine trees: thou shalt make cabines in the Arke, and 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 it: The length of the Arke shalbe three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, and the height of it thirtie cubites.
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 A windowe shalt thou make in the Arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finish it aboue, and the doore of the Arke shalt thou set in the side thereof: thou shalt make it with the lowe, seconde and third roume.
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 I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.
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 But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues 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 euery liuing thing, of all flesh two of euery sort shalt thou cause to come into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shalbe male and female.
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 the foules, after their kinde, and of the cattell after their kind, of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, that thou mayest keepe them aliue.
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 take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten: and thou shalt gather it to thee, that it may be meate for thee and for them.
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 Noah therefore did according vnto all, that God commanded him: euen 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)
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- 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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