I have made, and my spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh.  As who said, I shall not punish man perpetually as I do the devil, for man is frail, and yet ere I shall destroy him I shall give him space and time of repentance and to amend him, if he will.  The time of repentance shall be one hundred and twenty years.  Then Noah, righteous and perfect, walked with God, that is in his laws, and the earth was corrupt by sin and filled.

When God saw the earth to be corrupt, and that every man was corrupt by sin upon the earth, he said to Noah:  The end of all people is come tofore me except them that shall be saved, and the earth is replenished with their wickedness.  I shall destroy them with the earth, id est [that is], with the fertility of the earth.  Make to thee an ark of tree, hewn, polished, and squared.  And make there divers places, and lime it with clay and pitch within and without, that is to wit with glue which is so fervent, that the timber may not be loosed.  And thou shalt make it three hundred cubits of length, fifty in breadth, and thirty of height.  And make therein divers distinctions of places and chambers and of wardrobes.  And the ark had a door for to enter in and come out, and a window was made thereon, which that the Hebrews say was of crystal.  This ark was on making, from the beginning that God commanded first to make it, one hundred and twenty years.  In which time Noah oft desired the people to leave their sin, and how he had spoken with God, and that he was commanded to make the ship, for God should destroy them for their sin, but if they left it.  And they mocked him and said that he raved and was a fool, and gave no faith to his saying and continued in their sin and wickedness.  Then, when the ark was perfectly made, God bade him to take into it of all the beasts of the earth, and also of the fowls of the air, of each two, male and female, that they may live.  And also of all the meats of the earth that be comestible, that they may serve and feed thee and them.  And Noah did all that our Lord commanded him.  Then said our Lord to Noah:  Enter thou and all thy household into the ark, that is to say thou and thy wife and thy three sons and their three wives.  I have seen that thou art rightful in this generation.  Of all beasts that be clean thou shalt take seven, and of unclean beasts but only two.  And of the birds seven and seven, male and female, that they may be saved on the face of the earth.  Yet after seven days I shall rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and shall destroy all the substance that I made on the earth.  And Noah did all things that our Lord commanded him.