32 After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered ^xShem, Ham, and ^yJapheth.

Increasing Corruption on Earth

1 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,

16 Make a roof¹ for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 ^mFor behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.