God, however, announces a caveat: ‘But his days will be 120 years.’ This does not mean that the duration of human life is to be greatly shortened, as some authors would have us to believe,11 as if no human would live longer than 120 years—one need only turn to Genesis 11 to see that some humans continued to live much longer than that! What God is declaring is that mankind has 120 more years on earth in which to repent: ‘If they repent not I shall bring a flood upon them.’12 6:4. The Nephilim were