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NASB | Genesis 6:3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 6:3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive and remain with man forever, because he is indeed flesh [sinful, corrupt--given over to sensual appetites]; nevertheless his days shall yet be a hundred and twenty years." |
Subject: age limit of 120 years after Noah's sons |
Bible Note: Dear MJH: I looked up this verse and instead of abide it says strive. I have always heard this verse used with the convicting of God's spirit upon sin. Also that if one turns away from God when this convicting occurs that the persons heart becomes harder and harder so that he does not sense that conviction thus stays in his sin. We know that the flood came when Noah finished building the ark. I am thinking God gave them longer than 120 years before the flood. Reading Genesis 6 it says that all men were corrupt except Noah. God pronounced judgement on them and saved Noah. I interpret it to mean man would get 120 years instead of the hundreds he had previously and it was a gradual shortening of years. I am wondering if we are supposed to live to 120 on an average? Isn't the average now about 80? Sincerely, Val |