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Genesis 6:11
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Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
People on earth did what God said was evil, and violence was everywhere.
The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.
The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
The [population of the] earth was corrupt [absolutely depraved—spiritually and morally putrid] in God's sight, and the land was filled with violence [desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power].
Forsothe the erthe was corrupt bifore God, and was fillid with wickidnes.
And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled [with] violence.
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
God knew that everyone was terribly cruel and violent.
The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence.
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie.
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence.
When God looked at the earth, he saw that people had ruined it. Violence was everywhere, and it had ruined their life on earth.
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Now the earth was sinful in the eyes of God. The earth was filled with people hurting each other.
Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
And the earth corrupted itself before God, - and the earth was filled with violence,
The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.
The earth was corrupt in the presence of God, and the earth was filled with wickedness.
but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.
And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.
Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
And Noe begot three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth.
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.
The eretz was corrupt before God, and the eretz was filled with violence.
And the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Notwithstondinge ye earth was corrupte in ye sight of God, and full of myschefe.
As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence.
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Now the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
before: Genesis 7:1, Genesis 10:9, Genesis 13:13, 2 Chronicles 34:27, Luke 1:6, Romans 2:13, Romans 3:19
filled: Psalms 11:5, Psalms 55:9, Psalms 140:11, Isaiah 60:18, Jeremiah 6:7, Ezekiel 8:17, Ezekiel 28:16, Hosea 4:1, Hosea 4:2, Habakkuk 1:2, Habakkuk 2:8, Habakkuk 2:17
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:13 - filled Exodus 32:7 - corrupted Deuteronomy 9:12 - corrupted 1 Samuel 2:17 - before Job 22:15 - the old way Psalms 14:1 - They are Psalms 17:4 - works Psalms 53:1 - Corrupt Ecclesiastes 7:10 - wisely Ecclesiastes 7:29 - they Isaiah 24:5 - defiled Isaiah 59:6 - their works Ezekiel 12:19 - because Ezekiel 18:7 - hath spoiled Zechariah 5:2 - the length Acts 21:35 - for Romans 5:13 - until
Cross-References
Now it came about, when mankind began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked sinners against the LORD.
"Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes, and wept before Me, I have indeed heard you," declares the LORD.
The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And His soul hates one who loves violence.
Confuse them, Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
"May a slanderer not endure on the earth; May evil hunt a violent person violently."
"Violence will not be heard again in your land, Nor devastation or destruction within your borders; But you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The earth also was corrupt before God,.... That is, the inhabitants of the earth were corrupt in their lives and conversations; they were corrupt both in principle and practice, and did abominable things; and those corruptions were, according to Jarchi, uncleanness and idolatry; they were corrupt in the worship of God, worshipping the creature more, or besides the Creator; and they were corrupt in their manners and behaviour to one another, being guilty of fornication and adultery, and other enormous crimes; of some against God, and of others against their neighbours; and these they committed openly and impudently, without any fear of God, or dread of his wrath and displeasure, and in contempt of him, his will and laws:
and the earth was filled with violence; with doing injury to the persons and properties of men; with oppression and cruelty, by tyrannical decrees and unrighteous judgments; or with rapines and robberies, as the Targums and Jarchi; and with rapes, as Aben Ezra adds: the account that Lucian x gives from tradition agrees with this; that the present race of men is not the first, they totally perished by a flood; and those men were very insolent and addicted to unjust actions; for they neither kept their oaths, nor were hospitable to strangers, nor gave ear to suppliants, for which reason they were destroyed.
x De Dea Syria.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- Section VI - The Deluge
- XXIII. The Ark
9. ××ר doÌr âage, time from birth to death,â applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with some leading individual. Hence, the âraceâ or âgenerationâ living during that time.
14. ת×× teÌbaÌh âchest, ark.â It is used only of this vessel of Noahâs construction, and of the little vessel in which Moses was put Exodus 2:3, Exodus 2:5. The root, according to Furst, means âto be hollow.â ××× 'eÌbeh a cognate word, signifies âa reed;â κιβÏÏοÌÏ kiboÌtos Septuagint. ×פר goper α. λ., perhaps âfir, cypress, resinous wood.â ×§× qeÌn ânest, room; related: prepare, rear up.â
16. צ×ר tsohar âshining, light;â not the same as the ×××× chaloÌn Genesis 8:6, or the aperture through which Noah let out the raven.
18. ×ר×ת berıÌyt âcovenant; related: cut, eat, choose, decide.â
The close of the preceding document introduces the opening topic of this one. The same rule applies to all that have gone before. The generations of the skies and the land Genesis 2:4 are introduced by the finishing of the skies and the land Genesis 2:1; the generations of man in the line of Sheth Genesis 5:1, by the birth of Sheth Genesis 4:25; and now the generations of Noah, by the notice that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. The narrative here also, as usual, reverts to a point of time before the stage of affairs described in the close of the preceding passage. Yet there is nothing here that seems to indicate a new author. The previous paragraph is historical, and closely connected with the end of the fourth chapter; and it suitably prepares for the proceedings of Noah, under the divine direction, on the eye of the deluge. We have now a recapitulation of the agent and the occasion, and then the divine commission and its execution.
Genesis 6:9-12
Here are the man and the occasion.
Genesis 6:9-10
The generations of Noah. - In the third document we had the generations of man; now we are limited to Noah, because he is himself at peace with God, and is now the head and representative of those who are in the same blessed relation. The narrative, therefore, for the first time, formally confines itself to the portion of the human family in communion with God, Noah is here characterized by two new and important epithets - âjustâ and âperfect.â It is to be remembered that he had already found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Adam was created good; but by disobedience he became guilty, and all his race, Noah among the rest, became involved in that guilt. To be just is to be right in point of law, and thereby entitled to all the blessings of the acquitted and justified. When applied to the guilty, this epithet implies pardon of sin among other benefits of grace. It also presupposes that spiritual change by which the soul returns from estrangement to reconciliation with God. Hence, Noah is not only just, but perfect. This attribute of character imports not only the turning from darkness to light, from error to truth, from wrong to right, but the stability of moral determination which arises from the struggle, the trial, the victory of good over evil, therein involved. The just is the right in law; the perfect is the tested in holiness. âIn his ages;â among the men of his age. This phrase indicates the contrast between Noah and the men of his day. It is probable, moreover, that he was of pure descent, and in that respect also distinguished from his contemporaries who were the offspring of promiscuous intermarriage between the godly and the ungodly. âNoah walked with God,â like Henok. This is the native consequence of his victory over sin, and his acceptance with God. His sons are mentioned, as they are essentially connected with the following events.
Genesis 6:11-12
And the land was corrupt. - In contrast with Noah, the rest of the race were corrupt - entirely depraved by sin. âIt was filled with violenceâ - with the outward exhibition of inward carnality. âAnd God saw this.â It was patent to the eye of Heaven. This is the ground of the following commission.
Genesis 6:13-21
The directions concerning the ark embrace the purpose to destroy the race of man Genesis 6:13, the plan and specification of the ark Genesis 6:14-16, the announcement of the deluge Genesis 6:17, the arrangements for the preservation of Noah and his family, and certain kinds of animals Genesis 6:18-21.
Genesis 6:13
The end of all flesh. - The end may mean either the point to which it tends, or the extermination of the race. The latter is the simpler. All flesh is to be understood of the whole race, while yet it does not preclude the exception of Noah and his family. This teaches us to beware of applying an inflexible literality to such terms as all, when used in the sense of ordinary conversation. âIs come before me,â is in the contemplation of my mind as an event soon to be realized. âFor the land is filled with violence.â The reason. âI will destroy them.â The resolve. There is retribution here, for the words âcorruptâ and âdestroyâ are the same in the original.
Genesis 6:14-16
The ark. - Reckoning the cubit at 1.8 feet, we find the length to be about 540, the breadth 90, and the height 54 feet. The construction of such a vessel implies great skill in carpentry. The lighting apparatus is not described so particularly that we can form any conception of it. It was probably in the roof. The roof may have been flat. âAnd to a cubit shalt thou finish it above.â The cubit is possibly the height of the parapet round the lighting and ventilating aperture. The opening occupied, it may be, a considerable portion of the roof, and was covered during the rain with an awning ×××¡× mıÌkseÌh, Genesis 8:13. If, however, it was in the sides of the ark, the cubit was merely its height. It was then finished with a strong railing, which went round the whole ark, and over which the covering, above mentioned, hung down on every side. The door was in the side, and the stories were three. In each were of course many ânestsâ or chambers, for animals and stores. It may be curious to a mechanical mind to frame the details of this structure from the general hints here given; but it could not serve any practical end. Only the animals necessary to man, or unusual to the region covered by the deluge, required to be included in the ark. It seems likely that wild animals in general were not included. It is obvious, therefore, that we cannot calculate the number of animals preserved in the ark, or compare the space they would require with its recorded dimensions. We may rest assured that there was accommodation for all that needed to be there.
Genesis 6:17
The method of destruction is now specified. A water flood shall cover the land, in which all flesh shall perish. I, âbehold,â I. This catastrophe is due to the interposition of the Creator. It does not come according to the ordinary laws of physics, but according to the higher law of ethics.
Genesis 6:18-21
The covenant with Noah. Here is the first appearance of a covenant between God and man on the face of Scripture. A covenant is a solemn compact, tacit or express, between two parties, in which each is bound to perform his part. Hence, a covenant implies the moral faculty; and wherever the moral faculty exists, there must needs be a covenant. Consequently, between God and man there was of necessity a covenant from the very beginning, though the name do not appear. At first it was a covenant of works, in regard to man; but now that works have failed, it can only be a covenant of grace to the penitent sinner. âMy covenant.â The word âmyâ points to its original establishment with Adam. My primeval covenant, which I am resolved not to abandon. âWill I establish.â Though Adam has failed, yet will I find means of maintaining my covenant of life with the seed of the woman. âWith thee.â Though all flesh be to perish through breach of my covenant, yet will I uphold it with thee. âGo into the ark.â This is the means of safety. Some may say in their hearts, this is a clumsy way to save Noah. But if he is to be saved, there must be some way. And it is not a sign of wisdom to prescribe the way to the All-wise. Rather let us reflect that the erection of this ark was a daily warning to a wicked race, a deepening lesson of reliance on God to Noah and his household, and a most salutary occupation for the progenitors of the future race of mankind. âAnd thy sons, etc.â Noahâs household share in the covenant.
Genesis 6:19-20
And of all the living. - For the sake of Noah, the animal species also shall be preserved, âtwo of each, male and female.â They are to come in pairs for propagation. The fowl, the cattle, the creeping thing or smaller animals, are to come. From this it appears that the wild animals are not included among the inmates of the ark. (See Genesis 7:2-3, Genesis 7:8.) The word âallâ is not to be pressed beyond the specification of the writer. As the deluge was universal only in respect to the human race, it was not necessary to include any animals but those that were near man, and within the range of the overwhelming waters. Fodder and other provisions for a year have to be laid in.
Genesis 6:22
The obedience of Noah and the accomplishment of his task are here recorded. The building of so enormous a fabric must have occupied many years.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Genesis 6:11. The earth also was corrupt — Genesis 6:5; Genesis 6:5.
