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Genesis 6:12
12God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
Genesis 6:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- New Living Translation (NLT)God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt.
Context of Genesis 6:12
10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 11Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
Read all of Genesis 6Genesis 6:12 word by word
וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְהִנֵּ֣ה נִשְׁחָ֑תָה כִּֽי־הִשְׁחִ֧ית כָּל־בָּשָׂ֛ר אֶת־דַּרְכּ֖וֹ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Genesis 6:12
- Genesis 6:8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
- Genesis 18:21that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
- Job 33:27And they will go to others and say, ‘I have sinned, I have perverted what is right, but I did not get what I deserved.
- Psalms 14:2The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
- Psalms 33:13From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind;
- Psalms 53:2God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
- Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
- Genesis 6:4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 7:1The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- Genesis 9:12And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
- Job 22:15Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?
- Luke 3:6And all people will see God’s salvation.’ ”
- 1 Peter 3:19After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits—
- 2 Peter 2:5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
Commentaries on Genesis 6:12
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9-22Verses 9-22 - Section VI - The Deluge - XXIII. The Ark 9. דור dôr “age, time from birth to death,” applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with some leading individual. Hence, the “race” or “generation” living during that time. 14. תבה tēbâh “chest, ark.” It is used only of this vessel of Noah‘s construction, and of the little vessel in which Moses was put Exodus 2:3, Exodus 2:5. The root, according to Furst…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-21Verses 12-21 God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psa 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he chooses the sword with which he cuts off his enemies. God established…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-13See Genesis 6:5–7. violence: The Hebrew word here is khamas. Murder had greatly corrupted Cain's descendants (4:8, 23–24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-222. the sons of God saw the daughters of men--By the former is meant the family of Seth, who were professedly religious; by the latter, the descendants of apostate Cain. Mixed marriages between parties of opposite principles and practice were necessarily sources of extensive corruption. The women, religious themselves, would as wives and mothers exert an influence fatal to the existence of religion in their household, and consequently the people of that…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Genesis 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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