Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
⛓ Read Genesis 6 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'My Spirit shall not abide in man forever... his days shall be 120 years' — the limited span of divine patience before the flood — directly informs '(God) waited patiently in the days of Noah' (3:20), the period of forbearance before judgment.
Medium confidence'The destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved' may faintly resonate with the flesh/spirit duality of 'my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh.' Faint and contested; offered for Availability within Israel's anthropology of mortal flesh versus enduring spirit.
Low confidenceThe Spirit's striving with humanity that does not abide forever offers a faint backdrop to a limit on forgiveness when the Spirit is rejected. Low volume and contested.
Low confidenceThe flesh/Spirit antithesis (vv.5-9), where 'flesh' marks mortal humanity opposed to God's enduring Spirit, faintly recalls 'My Spirit will not abide in man forever, for he is flesh.'
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