Genesis 6:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 Therefore the Lord said, My spirit shall not always [a]strive with man, because he is but flesh, and his days shall be an [b]hundred and twenty years.
4 There were [c]giants in the earth in those days: yea, and after that the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mighty men, which in old time were men of [d]renown.
5 ¶ When the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughts of his (A)heart were only evil [e]continually,
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- 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.
- Genesis 6:4 Or, tyrants.
- Genesis 6:4 Which usurped authority over others, and did degenerate from that simplicity, wherein their fathers lived.
- Genesis 6:5 Hebrew, every day.
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