Douay Rheims Original ↷
Genesis 6 📜 📕 ↷
Corruption on the Earth
1 AND after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and had procreation of daughters,📜💬📚
2 the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives out of all which they had chosen.📜💬📚
3 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.📜💬📚
4 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.📜💬📚
5 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,📜💬📚
6 it repented him that he had made man on the earth. And touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,📜💬📚
7 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.📜💬📚
Noah's Favor with God
8 But Noe found grace before our Lord.📜💬📚
9 These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he did walk with God.📜💬📚
10 And he begat three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.📜💬📚
11 And the earth was corrupted before God, & was replenished with iniquity.📜💬📚
12 And when God had perceived that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth)📜💬📚
Preparing the Ark
13 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.📜💬📚
14 Make thee an ark of timber plank: cabinets shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with bitume.📜💬📚
15 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.📜💬📚
16 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.📜💬📚
17 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.📜💬📚
18 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.📜💬📚
19 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.📜💬📚
20 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.📜💬📚
21 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.📜💬📚
22 Noe therefore did all things which God commanded him.📜💬📚
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