1 S ucedeu que, quando os homens começaram a multiplicar-se sobre a terra, e lhes nasceram filhas,

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2 v iram os filhos de Deus que as filhas dos homens eram formosas; e tomaram para si mulheres de todas as que escolheram.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

3 E ntão disse o Senhor: O meu Espírito não permanecerá para sempre no homem, porquanto ele é carne, mas os seus dias serão cento e vinte anos.

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

4 N aqueles dias estavam os nefilins na terra, e também depois, quando os filhos de Deus conheceram as filhas dos homens, as quais lhes deram filhos. Esses nefilins eram os valentes, os homens de renome, que houve na antigüidade.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 V iu o Senhor que era grande a maldade do homem na terra, e que toda a imaginação dos pensamentos de seu coração era má continuamente.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

6 E ntão arrependeu-se o Senhor de haver feito o homem na terra, e isso lhe pesou no coração

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 E disse o Senhor: Destruirei da face da terra o homem que criei, tanto o homem como o animal, os répteis e as aves do céu; porque me arrependo de os haver feito.

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

8 N oé, porém, achou graça aos olhos do Senhor.

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

9 E stas são as gerações de Noé. Era homem justo e perfeito em suas gerações, e andava com Deus.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

10 G erou Noé três filhos: Sem, Cão e Jafé.

Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 A terra, porém, estava corrompida diante de Deus, e cheia de violência.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 V iu Deus a terra, e eis que estava corrompida; porque toda a carne havia corrompido o seu caminho sobre a terra.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

13 E ntão disse Deus a Noé: O fim de toda carne é chegado perante mim; porque a terra está cheia da violência dos homens; eis que os destruirei juntamente com a terra.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

14 F aze para ti uma arca de madeira de gôfer: farás compartimentos na arca, e a revestirás de betume por dentro e por fora.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

15 D esta maneira a farás: o comprimento da arca será de trezentos côvados, a sua largura de cinqüenta e a sua altura de trinta.

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

16 F arás na arca uma janela e lhe darás um côvado de altura; e a porta da arca porás no seu lado; fá-la-ás com andares, baixo, segundo e terceiro.

You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

17 P orque eis que eu trago o dilúvio sobre a terra, para destruir, de debaixo do céu, toda a carne em que há espírito de vida; tudo o que há na terra expirará.

I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

18 M as contigo estabelecerei o meu pacto; entrarás na arca, tu e contigo teus filhos, tua mulher e as mulheres de teus filhos.

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

19 D e tudo o que vive, de toda a carne, dois de cada espécie, farás entrar na arca, para os conservares vivos contigo; macho e fêmea serão.

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

20 D as aves segundo as suas espécies, do gado segundo as suas espécies, de todo réptil da terra segundo as suas espécies, dois de cada espécie virão a ti, para os conservares em vida.

Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.

21 L eva contigo de tudo o que se come, e ajunta-o para ti; e te será para alimento, a ti e a eles.

Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”

22 A ssim fez Noé; segundo tudo o que Deus lhe mandou, assim o fez.

Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.