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And all the dayes of Enoch, were three hundred sixtie and fiue yeeres.

And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundred, sixtie and nine yeeres, and he died.

And he called his name Noah, saying; This same shall comfort vs, concerning our woorke and toyle of our hands, because of the ground, which the LORD hath cursed.

And all the dayes of Lamech were seuen hundred seuentie and seuen yeeres, and he died.

¶ And it came to passe, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were borne vnto them:

That the sonnes of God saw the daughters of men, that they were faire, and they took them wiues, of all which they chose.

There were Giants in the earth in those daies: and also after that, when the sonnes of God came in vnto the daughters of men, & they bare children to them; the same became mightie men, which were of old, men of renowme.

¶ And God saw, that the wickednes of man was great in the earth, and that euery imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely euill continually.

1611 marginal noteOr, the whole imagination. The Hebr. word signifieth not onely the imagination, but also the purposes and desires.

1611 marginal noteHebr. euery day.

1611 marginal noteChap. 8.21. mat. 15.19.

And the LORD said, I will destroy man, whom I haue created, from the face of the earth: both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the foules of the aire: for it repenteth me that I haue made them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. from man vnto beast.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.