⁴ The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.

The Great Flood

7 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.^(A)

¹⁰ And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth.

¹⁷ The flood continued forty days on the earth, and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.^(A)

¹⁸ The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.^(A)

²¹ And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings;^(A)

²² everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.^(A)