Verse 6
And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
What is meant here is that, "God in consistency with his immutability, assumes a changed position in respect to changed man."[12] The expression that God repented (Jonah 3:10), or as here, "It repented Jehovah," cannot refer to any change in God; for as Malachi put it, "I, Jehovah, change not" (Malachi 3:6).
The hardening and corruption of all mankind having become total and final, God announced the summary punishment and destruction of it; but before announcing the nature of the destruction, he indicated Noah as an exception, through whom a new beginning for mankind would come.
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