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Genesis 6:3

And God said: “My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to themselves wives from all whom they chose.

4Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived, these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:17so that I may descend and speak to you. And I will take from your spirit, and I will deliver it to them, so that, with you, they may sustain the burden of the people, and so that you will not be weighed down alone.

Isaiah 5:4What more should I have done for my vineyard that I did not do for it? Should I not have expected it to produce grapes, though it produced wild vines?

Jeremiah 11:7For when testing, I tested your fathers in the day when I led them away from the land of Egypt, even until this day. Rising early, I tested them, and I said: Listen to my voice.

John 3:6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:2-3

Depravity of the World. ( b. c. 2469.) 1 And 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. For the glory of God's justice, and for warning to a wicked world, before the history of the ruin of the old world, we have a full account of its degeneracy, its apostasy from God and rebellion against him. The destroying of it was an act, not of an… Read the whole commentary →

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