Commentary on Genesis John Calvin
COMMENTARY ON GENESIS
4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became
4. Gigantes fuerunt in terra in diebus illis: et etiam postquam ingressi sunt filii Dei ad filias hominum, genuerunt eis: isti sunt potentes, qui a saeculo fuerunt viri nominis. mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
5. Et vidit Jehova quod multa esset malitia hominum in terra et quod omne figmentum cogitationum cordit eorum tantumodo esset malum omni die:
6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
6. Tunc poenituit Jehovam quod fecisset hominem in terra et doluit in corde suo.
7. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
7. Et dixit Jehova, Delebo hominem quem creavi, a superficie terrae, ab homine usque ad jumentum, usque ad reptile, et usque ad volatile coeli: quia poenitet me quod fecerim ea.
8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
8. Et Noah invenit gratiam in oculis Jehovae.
9. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
9. Istae sunt generationes Noah. Noah vir justus, perfectus fuit in generationibus suis: cum Deo ambulavit Noah.
10. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
10. Genuit vero Noah tres filios, Sem, Cham, et Jepheth.