Genesis 6:7

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 24:1-2 : 1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. 2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
  • Ps 37:20 : 20 But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.
  • Prov 10:27 : 27 The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end-- yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
  • Jer 4:22-27 : 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge." 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. 25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled. 26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his fierce anger. 27 For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
  • Jer 12:3-4 : 3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
  • Zeph 1:3 : 3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
  • Rom 3:20-22 : 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

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    5 Yahweh 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.

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  • Gen 6:17
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    17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

  • Gen 6:11-13
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    11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

    13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

  • Gen 7:4
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    4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

  • Amos 7:3
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    3 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.

  • Gen 7:21-23
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    21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

    22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

    23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

  • Gen 8:21
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    21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

  • Amos 7:6
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    6 Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.

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    3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

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    2 I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

    3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

  • Gen 6:8
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    8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

  • Exod 32:14
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    14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

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    13 I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.

  • Ezek 14:19
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    19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

  • Gen 1:26
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    26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

  • Gen 7:8
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    8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

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    6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.

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    6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you have gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.

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    11 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."

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    15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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    28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it."

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    15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

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    8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh.

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    6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

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    20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

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    3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.