Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1When humans began to become many on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
2the sons of God saw that the daughters of the humans were good, and they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
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Bene ha-elohim is printed “the sons of God.” The copy does not say they are angels, or judges, or a line of kings. Those are later explanations.
3Yahweh said, “My spirit will not stay with the human forever, since he too is flesh. His days will be one hundred and twenty years.”
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The verb yadon is not used this way anywhere else in this copy. “Stay” is printed. “Contend” and “judge” are both live, and both are uncertain. Beshagam, “since he too,” is an odd join of words, and it is translated as it stands.
4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of the humans and they bore them children. They were the warriors of old, the men of name.
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Nephilim is left as a name. The word is related to “fall,” but the copy does not define them beyond what this verse says.
5Yahweh saw that the evil of the human was great on the earth, and that every shaping of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day.
6Yahweh was sorry that he had made the human on the earth, and it pained him to his heart.
7Yahweh said, “I will wipe out the human I created from the face of the ground, from human to livestock to crawling thing to the birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I made them.”
8But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.
9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man. He was whole in his generations. Noah walked with God.
10Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11The earth was ruined before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12God saw the earth, and look, it was ruined, because all flesh had ruined its way on the earth.
13God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Look, I am going to ruin them with the earth.
14Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make the ark with rooms, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.
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Gopher wood is left as the name of the timber. The copy does not say which tree it is.
15This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above. Put the door of the ark in its side. Make it with a lower, a second, and a third deck.
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Tsohar is printed “roof.” A window is the other common reading of the same word. The line says it is finished to a cubit, which fits an opening along the top.
17I, look, I am bringing the flood of waters on the earth, to ruin all flesh that has the breath of life in it from under the sky. Everything on the earth will die.
18I will establish my covenant with you. You will come into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
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Berit is printed “covenant.” See the glossary. This is its first use in the book.
19From every living thing, from all flesh, two of each you shall bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
20From the birds by their kinds, from the livestock by their kinds, and from every crawling thing of the ground by their kinds, two of each shall come to you, to be kept alive.
21And you, take for yourself some of every food that is eaten, and gather it to you, and it will be food for you and for them.”
22Noah did it. According to everything God commanded him, so he did.