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Genesis 6:3 KJV
Genesis · chapter 6 · verse 3
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.Genesis 6:3 · King James Version
Genesis 6:3 in context
1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3And 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.
4There were giants 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 became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5And God 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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- spiritrûwachwindH7307 →
- alwaysʻôwlâmproperly, concealedH5769 →
- strivedîyna straight courseH1777 →
- twentyʻesrîymtwentyH6242 →
- fleshbâsârfleshH1320 →
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This comes in here as a token of God's displeasure at those who married strange wives; he threatens to withdraw from them his Spirit, whom they had grieved by such marriages, contrary to their convictions: fleshly lusts are often punished with spiritual judgments, the sorest of all judgments.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary