Genesis 6:5 — Bible Verse (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.”
Genesis 6:5 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Genesis 6:5 in 7 Bible Translations
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Genesis 6:5 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.”
Genesis 6:5 — World English Bible
Genesis 6:5 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And Jehovah 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. ”
Genesis 6:5 — American Standard Version
Genesis 6:5 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And Jehovah seeth that abundant <FI>is<Fi> the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;”
Genesis 6:5 — Young's Literal Translation
Genesis 6:5 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually. ”
Genesis 6:5 — Darby Translation
Genesis 6:5 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“When the Lord sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,”
Genesis 6:5 — Geneva Bible
Genesis 6:5 LS — The Living Sword (2024)
“And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great upon the earth, and every forming of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day.”
Genesis 6:5 — The Living Sword
Genesis 6:5 in Context — Genesis 6
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 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.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
What Does Genesis 6:5 Mean?
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