8. But Noah found favor with the Lord.
9. These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
10. Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11. But the earth was corrupt in the view of God and full of lawlessness.
12. When God saw how corrupt the earth had become, since all mortals had corrupted their ways on earth,