Increasing Corruption on Earth
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When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
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the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.
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Then the Lord said, "My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years."
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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.
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The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
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And the Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
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So the Lord said, "I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created--people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
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But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.