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Noah’s Favor with God

Genesis 6:11

In 11 translations

BSB
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
KJV
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
WEB
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
ASV
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
LSV
And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled [with] violence.
YLT
And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled [with] violence.
DBY
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence.Elohim
DRC
And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.
GNV
The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.
JPS
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
LXXE
But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַתִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ לִפְנֵ֣י הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א הָאָ֖רֶץ חָמָֽס׃
LXX-Br
Ἐφθάρη δὲ ἡ γῆ ἐναντίον τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἐπλήσθη ἡ γῆ ἀδικίας.

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👤 God◆ God instructs Noah to build the ark

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Part of

  • Noah and the Flood God sees violence filling the earth and decides to destroy it; righteous Noah, his household and animals survive in the ark while all life o…

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 8:17“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to…
  • Hosea 4:1–2Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! Cursing and lying, murder and…
  • Habakkuk 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
  • Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
  • Romans 2:13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
  • Ezekiel 28:16By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
  • Isaiah 60:18No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
  • Psalms 55:9O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
  • Psalms 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
  • Psalms 140:11May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
  • Jeremiah 6:7As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
  • Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
  • Habakkuk 1:2How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
  • Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
  • Habakkuk 2:17For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
  • Genesis 10:9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

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