Genesis 6:9-12

This is the first time the important words "righteous" and "blameless" appear in the Bible.

"The same explanation for Enoch’s rescue from death (’he walked with God’) is made the basis for Noah’s rescue from death in the Flood: ’he walked with God’ (Genesis 6:9). Thus in the story of Noah and the Flood, the author is able to repeat the lesson of Enoch: life comes through ’walking with God.’" [Note: Sailhamer, The Pentateuch . . ., p. 119.]

"Noah is depicted as Adam redivivus (revived). He is the sole survivor and successor to Adam; both ’walk’ with God; both are the recipients of the promissory blessing; both are caretakers of the lower creatures; both father three sons; both are workers of the soil; both sin through the fruit of a tree; and both father a wicked son who is under a curse." [Note: Mathews, p. 351, cf. p. 359. See Waltke, Genesis, pp. 127-30; and Warren Gage, The Gospel of Genesis, pp. 9-15, for striking parallels between Adam and Noah and between the prediluvian and postdiluvian worlds.]

"The two words, ’corrupt’ and ’violence,’ give us respectively the character and expression of the sin, the cause and the effect [Genesis 6:11]. The corruption has led to violence, for badness always leads to cruelty in one form or another. A life that is wrong with God necessarily becomes wrong with its fellows." [Note: Thomas, p. 71.]

"Whereas God has blessed the human family with the power of procreation to fill the earth (Genesis 1:28; Genesis 9:1), these culprits have ’filled the earth’ by procreating ’violence’ (cf. Genesis 6:13; Ezekiel 8:17; Ezekiel 28:16)." [Note: Mathews, p. 359.]