³ Then the Lord said, “My Spirit^(A) will not contend with^[a] humans forever,^(B) for they are mortal^[b];^(C) their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

⁴ The Nephilim^(D) were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans^(E) and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.^(F)

⁵ The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth,^(G) and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.^(H)

²⁶ “Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(A) so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁰ to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently^(A) in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.^(B) In it only a few people, eight in all,^(C) were saved^(D) through water,