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Wickedness in the World
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply
on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD 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.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also
after that, when the sons of God 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.
5 And God 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.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD 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.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Noah and the Flood
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a
just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked
with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth
was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, 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.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make
in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with
pitch.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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.
18 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.
19 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.
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.
21 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.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.
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Cults 
Why Did God Permit Sin?
