Genesis 6:8

Forsothe Noe foond grace bifore the Lord.

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In The King James Version

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

In Context

7and seide, Y schal do awei man, whom Y made of nouyt, fro the face of the erthe, fro man til to lyuynge thingis, fro crepynge beeste til to the briddis of heuene; for it repentith me that Y made hem.

9These ben the generaciouns of Noe. Noe was a iust man and perfit in hise generaciouns; Noe yede with God,

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Cross References

Genesis 19:19for thi seruaunt hath founde grace bifore thee, and thou hast magnyfied thi grace and mercy, which thou hast do with me, that thou schuldist saue my lijf; Y may not be saued in the hil, lest perauenture yuel take me, and Y die;

Luke 1:30And the aungel seide to hir, Ne drede thou not, Marie, for thou hast foundun grace anentis God.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:7-8

Mankind Threatened with Destruction. ( b. c. 2469.) 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Here is, I. God's resentment of man's wickedness. He did not see it as an unconcerned spectator, but as one injured and affronted by it; he saw it as a tender father sees… Read the whole commentary →

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