I will wipe man off the face of the earth
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καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός Ἀπαλείψω τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὃν ἐποίησα ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς γῆς, ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου ἕως κτήνους καὶ ἀπὸ ἑρπετῶν ἕως τῶν πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· ὅτι ἐθυμώθην ὅτι ἐποίησα αὐτούς.
God’s own account of his motive shifts register from v.6’s composed “took thought” to the blunter ἐθυμώθην, “I am angry/moved to wrath” — a striking juxtaposition within a few lines. The sentence’s scope is total: man, then every category of animal life, all together. ἀπό προσώπου τῆς γῆς, “from the face of the earth”, is a fixed idiom (cf. Gen 4:14, of Cain).
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