KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 6:3
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years.”
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith, ‘My Spirit doth not strive in man—to the age; in their erring they are flesh:’ and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.
Surrounding context — Genesis 6
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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.
4 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.
5 And 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.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֗הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotיָד֨וֹןH1777 · dinto judgeרוּחִ֤יH7307 · ru.achspiritבָֽאָדָם֙H120 · a.dammanלְעֹלָ֔םH5769 · o.lamforever: enduringבְּשַׁגַּ֖םH1571 · gamalsoה֣וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itבָשָׂ֑רH1320 · ba.sarfleshוְהָי֣וּH1961 · ha.yahto beיָמָ֔יוH3117 · yomdayמֵאָ֥הH3967 · me.ahhundredוְעֶשְׂרִ֖יםH6242 · es.rimtwentyשָׁנָֽה׃H8141 · sha.nehyear
Cross-references
Nehemiah 9:30Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.Jeremiah 11:11Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.1 Peter 3:18-20For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:Psalm 78:39For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.Galatians 5:16-24[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.Romans 8:1-13[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.Numbers 11:17And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which [is] upon thee, and will put [it] upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear [it] not thyself alone.John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.1 Thessalonians 5:19Quench not the Spirit.Isaiah 5:4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?Jeremiah 11:7For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.Jude 1:14-15And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
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