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  • 1. And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:
  • 2. And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.
  • 3. And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.
  • 4. But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.
  • 5. But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart [was] only euyll euery day.
  • 6. And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.
  • 7. And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.
  • 8. But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.
  • 9. These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.
  • 10. Noah begat three sonnes, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.
  • 11. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie.
  • 12. And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.
  • 13. And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth.
  • 14. Make thee an Arke of Pine trees: Habitations shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and with out with pitche.
  • 15. And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites.
  • 16. A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue: but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof. With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it.
  • 17. And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.
  • 18. With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt: and thou shalt come into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, thy wife, and thy sonnes wyues with thee.
  • 19. And of euery lyuyng thyng of all fleshe, a payre of euery one shalt thou bryng into the arke to kepe them alyue with thee, they shalbe male & female.
  • 20. Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.
  • 21. And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten, and thou shalt lay it vp with thee, that it may be meate for thee and them.
  • 22. Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.