Genesis 6:7

And the Lord said ,—"Before weird (doom) there's word: Northern Proverb" (Bonar)— I will destroy —literally, blot or wipe out by washing (cf. Numbers 5:23 ; 2 Kings 21:13 ; Proverbs 30:20 ; Isaiah 25:8 ). "The idea of destroying by washing away is peculiarly appropriate to the Deluge, and the word is chosen on account of its significance" (Quarry)— man whom I have created from the face of the earth . An indirect refutation of the angel hypothesis (Keil, Lange). If the angels were the real authors of the moral corruption of the race, why are they not sentenced as the serpent was in Genesis 3:14 ? Both man, and beast, and the creeping thing. Literally, from man unto beast, &c.; The lower creatures were involved in the punishment of man neither because of any moral corruption which had entered into them, nor as sharing in the atonement for human sins (Knobel); but rather on the ground of man's sovereignty over the animal world, and its dependence on him (Keil, Lange), and in exemplification of that great principle of Divine government by which the penal consequences of moral evil are allowed to extend beyond the immediate actor (cf. Romans 8:20 ). For it repenteth me that I have made them. Vide supra on Genesis 3:6 .