Genesis 6:17

And, behold, I, even I. More correctly, "And I , behold, I ," an emphatic assertion that what was coming was a Divine visitation, and not simply a natural occurrence. Do bring . Literally, bringing, the participle standing in place of the finite verb to indicate the certainty of the future action. A flood of waters upon the earth. מַכּוּל , pronounced by Bohlen "far-fetched," "is an archaic word coined expressly for the waters of Noah ( Isaiah 44:9 ), and is used nowhere else except Psalms 29:10 waters upon the earth" (Keil). The first intimation of the means to be employed in inflicting judgment on the morally corrupted world. To destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. The fishes only being excepted, "either