Widespread Sin and the Universal Flood
6:1 Now it came to pass, when man began to multiply on the face of the earth , and daughters were born unto them,
6:2 That sons of Elohim (אלהים) saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took them wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
6:3 And YHWH (יהוה) said:
"My Ruach shall not strive with man forever, for that he also is indeed flesh: therefore shall his days be One hundred and twenty years.
6:4 There were Nefilim (giants) in the earth in those yamin (days); and also after that, when benai Elohim (אלהים) came in unto banot ha adam, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
And YHWH (יהוה) saw (וירא) that the ra'ah (wickednessרעת) of man was [was] great in the earth, and [that] every yetzer (imaginations) of the machshevot (thoughts) of his heart [was] only evil continually.
6:6 Ve yi nakhem (relented, נחם) YHWH (יהוה) that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.
6:7 And YHWH (יהוה) said:
"I will machah (wipe out) man whom I have created from the face of ha adamah; both man, and behemah, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it relented Me that I have made them.
6:8 But Noach (נח) found favour (grace chen) in the eyes of YHWH (יהוה).
Haftarah: Yeshayahu 42:5-43 (A) 42:5-21(s)
Brit Hadashah Reading: Mattityahu 1:1-17; Luke 3:23-38 | 19:3-9; Markos 10:1-12; | Yochanan 1:1-18; Korintos Alef 6:15-20; 15:35-58; Romaios 5:12-21; Ephesios 5:21-32; Kolossaeus 1:14-17; Timotheos Alef 2:11-15; Hebrews 1:1-3; 3:7-4:11; Kefa Bet 3:3-14; Revelation 21:1-5; 22:1-5
6:9 (i) Noach and his three sons
Eleh toldot Noakh:
Noakh ish tzadik tamim hayah bedorotav et-haElohim hithalekh-Noakh:
These, are the generations of Noach: Noach, was a righteous man blameless, in his generations - with Elohim, did Noach walk.
6:10 And Noach (נח) begat three sons, Shem (שׁם), Ham (חם), and Yefet (יפת).
6:11 Vatishakhet haeretz lifnei haElohim vatimale haeretz hamas:
And the earth corrupted itself before Elohim, - and the earth was filled with violence,
6:12 And Elohim (אלהים) looked upon the earth, and, hinnei, it was shachat (corrupt); for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
6:13
And Elohim (אלהים) said unto Noach (נח):
"The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, hinnei, I will destroy them with the earth.
6:14 Aseh lekha tevat atzei-gofer kinim taaseh et-hatevah vekhafarta otah mibayit umikhutz bakofer:
Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.
6:15 And this is how you shall make it:
The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits,
its width fifty cubits, and
its height thirty cubits.
6:16 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.
6:17 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
6:18 But with thee will I establish My Brit; and thou shalt come into the tevah (ark בּבה), thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the tevah (ark בּבה), to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be zakar (male) and Nekevah (female).
6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.
6:21 And take thou unto thee of all oklah (food) that is eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for oklah (food) for thee, and for them.
6:22 Thus did Noach (נח); according to all that Elohim (אלהים) tzavah (commanded) him, so did he.
The ark is a picture of Mashich. The waters depict Hashem's judgment. Adonay Yeshua went under the waters of divine wrath at Stake. Those who are in Mashaich are saved. Those who are outside are doomed (see Kefa Alef 3:21).
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In the Hebrew Bible, there are a number of other words that, like "Nephilim", are sometimes translated as "giants":