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Genesis 6 has God say his spirit will not remain in humanity indefinitely. The Greek Septuagint says his spirit will not abide in "these humans," narrowing the warning to the flood generation alone.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Genesis 6:3
Hebrew Bible
1 When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose. 3 So the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God would sleep with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
Date: 750–400 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Genesis 6:3
Septuagint
1 And it happened when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the [angels] of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose. 3 And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be one hundred and twenty years. 4 Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God used to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.
Date: 300–201 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... And the Lord God said: "My spirit will not abide with these men forever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be one hundred and twenty years." -- Septuagint Gen. 6:3 (also Symmachus Gen. 6:3)" ..."
James L. Kugel, The Bible as It Was (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 137.
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