VBM Why is the Story of the Flood Doubled, Like the Story of Creation? By Rav Yoel Bin-Nun
The story of the flood actually begins at the end of Parashat Bereishit, and we will therefore begin reading from there:
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the distinguished men saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took them wives of all whom they chose.
And the Lord (Hashem) said, “My spirit shall not always strive on account of man, for that he also is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”
There were Nefilim in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the distinguished men came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same were mighty men of old, men of renown.
And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that all the impulse of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord repented that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. And the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and creeping things, and the birds of the air, for I repent that I have made them.”
But Noach found favor in the eyes of the Lord. (Bereishit 6:1-8)
The story of the flood actually begins at the end of Parashat Bereishit, and we will therefore begin reading from there:
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the distinguished men saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took them wives of all whom they chose.
And the Lord (Hashem) said, “My spirit shall not always strive on account of man, for that he also is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”
There were Nefilim in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the distinguished men came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same were mighty men of old, men of renown.
And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that all the impulse of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord repented that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. And the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and creeping things, and the birds of the air, for I repent that I have made them.”
But Noach found favor in the eyes of the Lord. (Bereishit 6:1-8)
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