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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 6:3

spirit. Hebrew. ruach. See App-9.

strive. remain in, with Septuagint, Arabic, Syriac, and Vulgate; Occurs only here.

man: with article, as in verses: Genesis 6:1 and Genesis 6:2. the man Adam, App-14.

he: emphatic, i.e. the man Adam.

also: i.e. the man Adam also, as well as the others. (Not "men"; if so, as well as what?)

is flesh. If taken as. verb, then it. "in their erring". Hebrew. shagag. App-44. Adam had become like the others.

yet his days. yet Adam's days. See App-24.

hundred and twenty years: this fixes the date A. M. 930-120-810. The B.C. date being 3194, as given.

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