Verse 1: It came to be when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, that daughters were born to them.

Verse 2: The sons of the rulers saw that the daughters of man were fair and they took for themselves wives from whomever they chose.

Verse 3: Ad-noy said, "My spirit will not continue to judge man forever, since he is nothing but flesh. His days shall be a hundred and twenty years."

Verse 4: There were giants on the earth in those days, and also later, when the sons of the rulers came to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mightiest ones who ever existed. [They were] men of renown.

Maftir

Verse 6: Ad-noy was comforted that He had made man on the earth, and He grieved in His heart.

Verse 7: Ad-noy said, "I will obliterate mankind which I have created from the face of the earth, from man to beast, to the creeping things and to the birds of heaven, for I regret that I made them."

Verse 8: But Noach found favor in the eyes of Ad-noy.