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Genesis 6:3

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And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

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Genesis 6:3 in other translations

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

Genesis 6:3 · World English Bible

Genesis 6:3 in context

  1. 1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,
  2. 2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.
  3. 3And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
  4. 4The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
  5. 5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.