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The Breach of the Watchers and the Preparation of the Tebah
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
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That the sons of Alahiym saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
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There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of Alahiym came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
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The Grievousness of Man and the Decree of Destruction
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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And it repented 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them."
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But Noach found grace in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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The Generation of Noach and the Corruption of All Flesh
These are the generations of Noach: Noach was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noach walked with Alahiym.
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And Noach begat three sons, Sham, Cham, and Yapheth.
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The earth also was corrupt before Alahiym, and the earth was filled with violence.
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And Alahiym looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
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And Alahiym said unto Noach, "The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
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The Architecture of the Tebah and the Preservation Logic
Make thee an ark (Tebah) of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
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And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
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The Covenant and the Gathering of Life
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
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But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
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And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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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.
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And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
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Thus did Noach; according to all that Alahiym commanded him, so did he.