InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Gen C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42 C43 C44 C45 C46 C47 C48 C49 C50
Gen 6 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_ god _he/it_saw DOM the_earth/land and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE it_was_corrupt if/because all_of flesh it_had_corrupted DOM its_road/course on the_earth/land.
OET (OET-RV) Yes, God looked at the earth, and wow, all the living creatures on the earth had corrupted their behaviour.
וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_saw ʼElohīm DOM the=earth/land and=see/lo/see! it_had_decayed/was_corrupt that/for/because/then/when it_had_corrupted all/each/any/every flesh/meat DOM its=road/course on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=earth/land )
Consider whether or not it is best in your language to begin this sentence with a conjunction.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְהִנֵּ֣ה נִשְׁחָ֑תָה
DOM the=earth/land DOM (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_saw ʼElohīm DOM the=earth/land and=see/lo/see! it_had_decayed/was_corrupt that/for/because/then/when it_had_corrupted all/each/any/every flesh/meat DOM its=road/course on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=earth/land )
See how you translated corrupt and the earth in verse 6:11. Alternate translation: [that everyone on the earth was very wicked] or [how dishonest everyone on the earth had become]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
כִּֽי & כָּל־בָּשָׂ֛ר & עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_saw ʼElohīm DOM the=earth/land and=see/lo/see! it_had_decayed/was_corrupt that/for/because/then/when it_had_corrupted all/each/any/every flesh/meat DOM its=road/course on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=earth/land )
The phrase all flesh refers here to all people and probably implies that people are mortal (verse 3). Alternate translation: [because everyone living on earth]
הִשְׁחִ֧ית & אֶת־דַּרְכּ֖וֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_saw ʼElohīm DOM the=earth/land and=see/lo/see! it_had_decayed/was_corrupt that/for/because/then/when it_had_corrupted all/each/any/every flesh/meat DOM its=road/course on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=earth/land )
Alternate translation: [were living wicked lives] or [were continually doing wicked things]
OET-LV And_ god _he/it_saw DOM the_earth/land and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE it_was_corrupt if/because all_of flesh it_had_corrupted DOM its_road/course on the_earth/land.
OET (OET-RV) Yes, God looked at the earth, and wow, all the living creatures on the earth had corrupted their behaviour.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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