And GOD 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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
L'Eternel vit que la méchanceté des hommes était grande sur la terre, et que toutes les pensées de leur coeur se portaient chaque jour uniquement vers le mal.
KJV
And GOD 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.
Philo Judaeus
Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis
ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ διενοήθη. καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός· ἀπαλείψω τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὃν ἐποίησα ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς γῆς“ (Gen. 6,5—7). ἴσως τινὲς τῶν ἀνεξετάστων ὑποτοπήσουσι τὸν νομοθέτην αἰνίττεσθαι, ὅτι ἐπὶ τῇ γενέσει τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὁ δημιουργὸς μετέγνω κατιδὼν τὴν ἀσέβειαν αὐτῶν, ἧς χάριν αἰτίας ἐβ…
Philo Judaeus
De Confusione Linguarum
τῶν τε καὶ πτηνῶν καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀλόγου τῶν ἀτιθάσων θηρίων πληθύος ἐφ’ οἷς ἀνίατα ἠδικήκει τίσασθαι (Gen. 6, 5 — 7)· ἡ δὲ τιμωρία κατακλυσμός. ἦν γὰρ ἔφεσις ἁμαρτημάτων καὶ πολλὴ τοῦ ἀδικεῖν μηδενὸς κωλύοντος φορά, ἀλλὰ προσαναρρηγνυμένων ἀδεῶς ἁπάντων εἰς χορηγίας ἀφθόνους τοῖς…
Florus of Lyon
Book against John Scotus
of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth" Genesis 6:5-6. Where it is also added: "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and creeping thing, and the birds of the heavens. For…
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