Holy Scripture
Genesis 6:12
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“Because the sons of Seth were going into the daughters of Cain, they turned away from their first wives whom they had previously taken. Then these wives, too, disdained their own continence and now, because of their husbands, quickly began to abandon their modesty, which up until that time they had preserved for their…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
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10And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, Japheth.
11But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
— Genesis 6:12 —
13And the Lord God said to Noah, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.
14Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.