Genesis 6:3

Yahweh said, “My spirit will not remain in mankind forever, for they are flesh. They will live 120 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

2that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were attractive. They took for themselves wives, any of them that they chose.

4Giants were on the earth in those days, and also afterward. This happened when the sons of God married daughters of men, and they had children with them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:17I will come down and talk with you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will bear the burden of the people with you. You will not have to bear it alone.

Psalms 78:39He called to mind that they were made of flesh, 1 a wind that passes away and does not return. 1

Isaiah 5:4What more could have been done for my vineyard, that I have not done for it? 1 When I looked for it to produce grapes, why did it produce wild grapes? 1

Jeremiah 11:7For I have been giving solemn commands to your ancestors from the day I brought them up from the land of Egypt until this present time, persistently warning them and saying, “Listen to my voice.”'

John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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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