Then it [a]repented the Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorry in his heart.

Therefore the Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I have created, from man [b]to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the fowl of the heaven: for I repent that I have made them.

But Noah [c]found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:6 God doth never repent, but he speaketh after our capacity, because he did destroy him, and in that as it were did disavow him to be his creature.
  2. Genesis 6:7 God declareth how much he detesteth sin, seeing the punishment thereof extendeth to the brute beasts.
  3. Genesis 6:8 God was merciful unto him.

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