BCC ¹ Lorsque les hommes eurent commencé à être nombreux sur la surface de la terre, et qu'il leur fut né des filles,

KJV ¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

VULC ¹ Cumque cœpissent homines multiplicari super terram, et filias procreassent,

BCC ² les fils de Dieu virent que les filles des hommes étaient belles, et ils en prirent pour femmes parmi toutes celles qui leur plurent.

KJV ² That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

VULC ² videntes filii Dei filias hominum quod essent pulchræ, acceperunt sibi uxores ex omnibus, quas elegerant.

BCC ³ Et Yahweh dit : « Mon esprit ne demeurera pas toujours dans l'homme, car l'homme n'est que chair, et ses jours seront de cent vingt ans. »

KJV ³ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

VULC ³ Dixitque Deus : Non permanebit spiritus meus in homine in æternum, quia caro est : eruntque dies illius centum viginti annorum.

BCC ⁴ Or, les géants étaient sur la terre en ces jours-là, et cela après que les fils de Dieu furent venus vers les filles des hommes, et qu'elles leur eurent donné des enfants : ce sont là les héros renommés dès les temps anciens.

KJV ⁴ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

VULC ⁴ Gigantes autem erant super terram in diebus illis : postquam enim ingressi sunt filii Dei ad filias hominum, illæque genuerunt, isti sunt potentes a sæculo viri famosi.

BCC ⁵ Yahweh vit que la méchanceté des hommes était grande sur la terre, et que toutes les pensées de leur coeur se portaient chaque jour uniquement vers le mal.

KJV ⁵ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

VULC ⁵ Videns autem Deus quod multa malitia hominum esset in terra, et cuncta cogitatio cordis intenta esset ad malum omni tempore,