Genesis 6:17 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 6:17

And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

BSB

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ASV

And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.

KJV

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth,.... That there was such a flood of waters brought upon the earth, is confirmed by the testimonies of Heathen writers of all nations; only instead of Noah they put some person of great antiquity in their nation, as the Chaldeans, Sisithrus or Xisuthrus; the Grecians and Romans, Prometheus or Deucalion, or Ogyges.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I-do bring a flood - מבול; mabbul; a word used only to designate the general deluge, being never applied to signify any other kind of inundation; and does not the Holy Spirit intend to show by this that no other flood was ever like this, and that it should continue to be the sole one of the kind? There have been many partial inundations in various countries, but never more than One general deluge; and we have God’s promise, Gen 9:15, that there shall never be another.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood--The repetition of the announcement was to establish its certainty (Ge 41:32). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of natural laws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by God as a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַאֲנִ֗י	va.'a.Ni	and I	H589 →
הִנְנִי֩	hi.Ni	here I	H2009 →
מֵבִ֨יא	me.Vi'	[am] about to bring	H935 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַמַּבּ֥וּל	ha.ma.Bul	the flood	H3999 →
מַ֙יִם֙	ma.yim	water	H4325 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הָאָ֔רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →
לְשַׁחֵ֣ת	le.sha.Chet	to destroy	H7843 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
בָּשָׂ֗ר	ba.Sar	flesh	H1320 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
בּוֹ֙	bo	[is] in <the> it
ר֣וּחַ	Ru.ach	[the] breath of	H7307 →
חַיִּ֔ים	chai.Yim	life	H2416 →
מִתַּ֖חַת	mi.Ta.chat	from under	H8478 →
הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם	ha.sha.Ma.yim	the heavens	H8064 →
כֹּ֥ל	kol	all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	that	H834 →
בָּאָ֖רֶץ	ba.'A.retz	[is] on the earth	H776 →
יִגְוָֽע׃	yig.Va'	<it> will die	H1478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes…
leads to
- Genesis 6:13
  Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 3:20
  who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
- Ezekiel 14:14
  then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
- Romans 4:13
  For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
- Luke 17:26
  Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
Through
1 Peter 3:20
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
leads to
- Hebrews 11:7
  By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Peter 2:5
  if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
Through
2 Peter 2:5
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
leads to
- 2 Peter 3:6
  through which the world of that time perished in the flood.