Genesis 6 KJV
The Wickedness of Man
The Wickedness of Man
Noah was 'perfect in his generations' - possibly meaning his genealogy was uncorrupted
1nd it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
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.
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.
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.
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.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sonsโ wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
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Did You Know?
Noah was 'perfect in his generations' - possibly meaning his genealogy was uncorrupted
The ark was approximately 450 feet long - larger than any wooden ship built until the 1800s
God gave humanity 120 years of warning before the flood
'Sons of God' in verse 2 is one of the most debated phrases in the Bible
Noah is the first person called 'righteous' in Scripture
The ark's 300-by-50-by-30 cubit dimensions (roughly 450 x 75 x 45 feet) match the length-to-beam ratio of stable modern cargo vessels, yet were built by Noah's family alone over a century.
The Hebrew terms for Adam's duties to 'tend and keep' the garden (Genesis 2:15) match those used for priestly service in the tabernacle, implying he functioned as an archetypal priest guarding sacred space long before the Levitical order.
The biblical account never identifies the forbidden fruit as an apple; this association arose centuries later in European art and literature, while early Jewish sources like the Talmud occasionally propose figs or grapes instead.
Abraham led a military raid with only 318 trained servants from his household to defeat a coalition of four Mesopotamian kings and rescue his nephew Lot, as recorded in Genesis 14.
The exact location of Eden remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in biblical geography.
Archaeological excavations revealed Ur had flush toilets and a sophisticated sewage system by 2000 BC.
Mount Ararat is the tallest peak in modern Turkey at 16,854 feet.
Commentary & Study Notes Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (1871) ยท Public Domain the sons of God saw the daughters of men โ By the former is meant the family of Seth, who were professedly religious; by the latter, the descendants of apostate Cain. Mixed marriagโฆ
Classic verse-by-verse commentary on Genesis 6 from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871). Covers: Wickedness of the world.
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- the sons of God saw the daughters of men โ By the former is meant the family of Seth, who were professedly religious; by the latter, the descendants of apostate Cain. Mixed marriages between parties of opposite principles and practice were necessarily sources of extensive corruption. The women, religious themselves, would as wives and mothers exert an influence fatal to the existence of religion in their household, and consequently the people of that later age sank to the lowest depravity.
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- flesh โ utterly, hopelessly debased. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive โ Christ, as God, had by His Spirit inspiring Enoch, Noah, and perhaps other prophets (1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5; Jude 14), preached repentance to the antediluvians; but they were incorrigible. yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years โ It is probable that the corruption of the world, which had now reached its height, had been long and gradually increasing, and this idea receives support from the long respite granted.
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