Genesis 6:13

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.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

14Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship.

Jeremiah 51:13O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel! for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:12-13

Depravity of the World. ( b. c. 2448.) 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. The wickedness of that generation is here again spoken of, either as a foil to Noah's piety—he was just and perfect, when all the earth was corrupt; or as a further justification of God's resolution to destroy the world, which he was now about to communicate to his servant Noah. 1.… Read the whole commentary →

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