5 The Lord saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on the earth and that every idea their minds thought up was always completely evil.
6 The Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and he was heartbroken.
7 So the Lord said, "I will wipe off of the land the human race that I’ve created: from human beings to livestock to the crawling things to the birds in the skies, because I regret I ever made them."
8 But as for Noah, the Lord approved of him.
9 These are Noah’s descendants. In his generation, Noah was a moral and exemplary man; he walked with God.
10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 In God’s sight, the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence.