Genesis of Justice

God Overreacts - and Floods the World

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Schocken Bible translation

Contemporary English Version translation

Genesis

6 ^1-2More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.  ³Then the LORD said, "I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than one hundred twenty years." 
⁴The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later. 
⁵The LORD saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.   ⁶He was very sorry that he had made them,  ⁷and he said, "I'll destroy every living creature on earth! I'll wipe out people, animals, birds, and reptiles. I'm sorry I ever made them." 
⁸But the LORD was pleased with Noah.  

Genesis

9 ¹God said to Noah and his sons:

I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth.  

²All animals, birds, reptiles, and fish will be afraid of you. I have placed them under your control,   ³and I have given them to you for food. From now on, you may eat them, as well as the green plants that you have always eaten.   ⁴But life is in the blood, and you must not eat any meat that still has blood in it.   ^5-6I created humans to be like me, and I will punish any animal or person that takes a human life. If an animal kills someone, that animal must die. And if a person takes the life of another, that person must be put to death.

⁷I want you and your descendants to have many children, so people will live everywhere on earth.

⁸Again, God said to Noah and his sons: 

⁹I am going to make a solemn promise to you and to everyone who will live after you.  

¹⁰This includes the birds and the animals that came out of the boat.   ¹¹I promise every living creature that the earth and those living on it will never again be destroyed by a flood.

6.1,2 supernatural beings: Or "angels."
6.3 I won't...forever: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
6.3 No one...years:Or "In fact, they will all be destroyed in about one hundred years" (that is, at the time of the flood).

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The Genesis of Justice