Genesis 6:11
New International Version
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.

New Living Translation
Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence.

English Standard Version
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

Berean Standard Bible
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

King James Bible
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

New King James Version
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

New American Standard Bible
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

NASB 1995
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

NASB 1977
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Amplified Bible
The [population of the] earth was corrupt [absolutely depraved—spiritually and morally putrid] in God’s sight, and the land was filled with violence [desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power].

Christian Standard Bible
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

American Standard Version
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Earth was corrupted before God and the Earth was filled with evil.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.

English Revised Version
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The world was corrupt in God's sight and full of violence.

Good News Translation
but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.

International Standard Version
By this time, the earth had become ruined in God's opinion and filled with violence.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Literal Standard Version
And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled [with] violence.

Majority Standard Bible
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

New American Bible
But the earth was corrupt in the view of God and full of lawlessness.

NET Bible
The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

New Revised Standard Version
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

New Heart English Bible
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Webster's Bible Translation
The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.

World English Bible
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Young's Literal Translation
And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence.

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Context
Noah's Favor with God
10And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence. 12And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.…

Cross References
Genesis 6:10
And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Exodus 32:7
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands."

Judges 2:19
But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

Ezekiel 8:17
"Son of man," He said to me, "do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!


Treasury of Scripture

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

before.

Genesis 7:1
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

filled.

Psalm 11:5
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Psalm 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Psalm 140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

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Genesis 6
1. The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's wrath.
8. Noah finds grace.
9. His family line
14. The order, form, dimensions, and building of the ark.














(11) The earth.--This is the larger word, and it occurs no less than six times in these three verses, thus indicating a more widespread calamity than if adamah only had been used, as in Genesis 6:7. But the earth that "was corrupt before God" was not the whole material globe, but that part which man, notably the gibborim of Genesis 6:4, had "filled with violence." Whithersoever man's violence had spread, there his home and all his works, his builded cities, his tilled land, his cattle and stores, must be entirely swept away. An absolutely new beginning was to be made by Noah, such as Adam had to undertake when he was expelled from Paradise. The reason of this necessity is next given.

Verse 11. - The earth -

(1) its inhabitants, as in ver. 11 (cf. Genesis 11:1) - mankind being denominated earth because wholly earthly (Chrysostom);

(2) the land, which had become defiled through their wickedness (vers. 12, 13; cf. Psalm 107:34) - also (literally, and the earth) was corrupt - in a moral sense, the causes and forms of which corruption have already been detailed in the preceding paragraph. The term is elsewhere applied to idolatry, or the sin of perverting and depraving the worship of God (Exodus 32:7; Deuteronomy 32:5; Judges 2:19; 2 Chronicles 27:2); but the special sins of the antediluvians were rather licentiousness and lawlessness - before God - i.e. openly, publicly, flagrantly, and presumptuously (cf. Genesis 10:9); noting the intensity of their wickedness, or intimating the fact that God had seen their corruption, and so commending the Divine long-suffering (Calvin), - and the earth was filled with violence. "The outward exhibition of inward carnality" (Murphy); "injurious and cruel dealing, the violating of duties towards men, 'rapines or robberies (Chaldee)'" (Ainsworth). Cf. Genesis 49:5; Joel 3:19; Obadiah 1:10.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now the earth
הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

was corrupt
וַתִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת (wat·tiš·šā·ḥêṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

in the sight
לִפְנֵ֣י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

of God,
הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

[and]
הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

full
וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א (wat·tim·mā·lê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

of violence.
חָמָֽס׃ (ḥā·mās)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain


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