³Then the Lord said, “^aMy Spirit shall not ¹strive with man forever, ²^bbecause he also is flesh; ³nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

⁴The ^aNephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that ^aevery intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

⁶^aThe Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was ^bgrieved ¹in His heart.

⁷The Lord said, “^aI will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ¹sky; for ^bI am sorry that I have made them.”

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Footnotes

1Lit good
1Or rule in; some ancient versions read abide in
2Or in his going astray he is flesh
3Or therefore
1Lit to
1Lit heavens

Cross references

a Gal 5:16, 17; 1 Pet 3:20
b Ps 78:39
a Num 13:33
a Gen 8:21; Ps 14:1–3; Prov 6:18; Matt 15:19; Rom 1:28–32
a Gen 6:7; Jer 18:7–10
b Is 63:10; Eph 4:30
a Deut 28:63; 29:20
b Gen 6:6; Amos 7:3, 6