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 Let us defer to Rashi on the accepted Jewish answer for this. From here, we can look at the text and notice something interesting. God does not actually repent from the creation of Man from upon the earth in the sense that he "made a mistake" in creating Man -- we see that in fact Noah found favor with God and that God chose to restart the population from the generations of Noah; (a reference to righteous people; "these are the generations of Noah..."). This is in fact a theme we see frequently in the Hebrew scriptures and is one of the reasons why God is known forever as the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -- because there was a process of selection of the righteous that had gone on, from Adam, through Shem, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and so forth, which eventually produced the nation of Israel that was finally able to accept the Torah.
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+=== The Righteousness of Noah
+The story of Noah appears in Genesis 6 to 9. In Genesis 5:28-32 we see the introduction of Noah and in Chapter 6 we see the Torah zoom in to focus solely on Noah's life and times. This is an indication that Noah is the central figure of the time.
+What is written about Noah's righteousness?
+. The prophecy of Lamech (Genesis 5:29) is that Noah will provide comfort against the curse of Adam ('in the work and the toil of our hands on the earth,' -- which is the only curse given to Adam).
+. The statements a, b, c and d as follows:
+* a) These are the generations of Noah:
+* b) Noah was a righteous man,
+* c) and perfect in his generations:
+* d) Noah walked with God.
+These are not separate statements but qualified statements. It means, "The generations (plural) of Noah are those who are righteous (as was Noah)," and "Noah was perfect in his generations (plural), (because), he walked with God." It could also be taken to mean that Noah was righteous in the context of his generation, such as he was more righteous than anyone else, or, that he was righteous despite that everyone else was evil -- i.e. that despite the difficulties of living in a society antagonistic to God, he was still able to remain righteous.
 == Rashi