Genesis 6

Question 1

Genesis 6:1

Answer 1

When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

Question 2

Genesis 6:2

Answer 2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

Question 3

Genesis 6:3

Answer 3

Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

Question 4

Genesis 6:4

Answer 4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days–and also afterward–when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Question 5

Genesis 6:5

Answer 5

The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Question 6

Genesis 6:6

Answer 6

The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

Question 7

Genesis 6:7

Answer 7

So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth–men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air–for I am grieved that I have made them.”

Question 8

Genesis 6:8

Answer 8

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Question 9

Genesis 6:9

Answer 9

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.

Question 10

Genesis 6:10

Answer 10

Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Question 11

Genesis 6:11

Answer 11

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.

Question 12

Genesis 6:12

Answer 12

God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

Question 13

Genesis 6:13

Answer 13

So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

Question 14

Genesis 6:14

Answer 14

So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Question 15

Genesis 6:15

Answer 15

This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be feet long, feet wide and feet high.

Question 16

Genesis 6:16

Answer 16

Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

Question 17

Genesis 6:17

Answer 17

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Question 18

Genesis 6:18

Answer 18

But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark–you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

Question 19

Genesis 6:19

Answer 19

You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

Question 20

Genesis 6:20

Answer 20

Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.

Question 21

Genesis 6:21

Answer 21

You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

Question 22

Genesis 6:22

Answer 22

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.