[ 6:9] But Noah found grace before the Lord God.

I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to Me, and if not, I will know.

Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? And He has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

The Lord looks out of heaven; He beholds all the sons of men.

He looks [down] from His dwelling place on all the inhabitants of the earth;

God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

They have all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one.

The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place.

[ 6:5] Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, they bore [children] to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.

[ 6:6] And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that everyone in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

And the Lord God said to Noah, Enter therefore, you and all your family, into the ark, for I have seen [that] you [are] righteous before Me in this generation.

And all flesh that moved upon the earth died; of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man.

And the Lord God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I set between Me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations.

And My rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between Me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth.

And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant, which I have made between Me and all flesh, which is upon the earth.

Will you not mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden?

Who say, What will the Lord do to us? Or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"

by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

who formerly disobeyed, when the longsuffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah, when the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, [the] eighth, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood upon the ungodly world;