Noah Finds Favor Amid Wickedness

As humanity multiplied across the earth, corruption spread everywhere. The sons of God

took human women as they pleased, and violence filled the world. The Nephilim walked

the earth in those days— mighty warriors, men of renown. The Lord saw that

human wickedness had become great, and that every thought of the human heart was evil all the

time. The Lord was grieved that He had made mankind, and His heart was

filled with sorrow. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the earth the human race I have created—

along with the animals and the birds.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.