Genesis 6:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
6 3 God threateneth to bring the flood. 5 Man altogether corrupt. 6 God repenteth that he made him. 18 Noah and his are preserved in the Ark, which he was commanded to make.
1 So when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and there were daughters born unto them,
2 Then the [a]sons of God saw the daughters [b]of men that they were [c]fair, and they took them wives of all that they [d]liked.
3 Therefore the Lord said, My spirit shall not always [e]strive with man, because he is but flesh, and his days shall be an [f]hundred and twenty years.
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- Genesis 6:2 The children of the godly, which began to degenerate.
- Genesis 6:2 Those that came of wicked parents, as of Cain.
- Genesis 6:2 Having more respect to their beauty and to worldly considerations, than to their manners and godliness.
- Genesis 6:2 Or, had chosen.
- Genesis 6:3 Because man could not be won by God’s lenity and long sufferance whereby he strove to overcome him, he would no longer stay his vengeance.
- Genesis 6:3 Which term God gave man to repent before he would destroy the earth, 1 Pet. 3:20.
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