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Then the Lord said, "What have you done? You killed your brother and the ground opened up to take his blood from your hands. Now his blood is shouting to me from the ground. So you will be cursed from this ground.

Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice! You wives of Lamech, listen to me. A man hurt me, so I killed him. I even killed a child for hitting me.

So Adam lived a total of 930 years; then he died.

So Seth lived a total of 912 years; then he died.

So Enosh lived a total of 905 years; then he died.

So Kenan lived a total of 910 years; then he died.

So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years; then he died.

So Jared lived a total of 962 years; then he died.

So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years; then he died.

So Lamech lived a total of 777 years; then he died.

The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.

So the Lord said, "I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them."

So God said to Noah, "Everyone has filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth.

Also, you will take two of every living thing on the earth with you into the boat. Take a male and female of every kind of animal so that they might survive with you.

Two of every kind of bird, animal, and creeping thing will come to you so that you might keep them alive.

Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.

The water rose so much that even the highest mountains were covered by the water.

The dove could not find a place to rest because water still covered the earth, so the dove came back to the boat. Noah reached out his hand and caught the dove and brought it back into the boat.

So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.