Genesis 6:5-11

5When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,

6the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was deeply grieved.

7Then the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky — for I regret that I made them.”

8Noah, however, found favor with the Lord.

9These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

10And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.