Genesis 6:12
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
- KJV
- And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- WEB
- God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- ASV
- And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
- DARBY
- And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.
- BLB
- And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- ÅB
- Og Gud så på jorden, og se, den var fordervet; for alt kjød hadde fordervet sin ferd på jorden.
- OTB
- Gud så på jorden og så at den var fordervet, for alt kjød hadde fordervet sin vei på jorden.
- B1930
- Og Gud så på jorden, og se, den var fordervet; for alt kjød hadde fordervet sin ferd på jorden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 53:2–3
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Read in contextProverbs 15:3
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Read in contextPsalms 14:1–3
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Read in contextJob 22:15–17
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Read in context2 Peter 2:5
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Read in contextGenesis 6:8
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Read in context1 Peter 3:19–20
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Read in contextGenesis 6:4–5
There 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.
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