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The Elohìms' sons saw that Adàm's daughters were beautiful (good) and
amidst all, they took for them the women they chose
Meanwhile, we point out that the term tovòt ( ) is usually translated as
“beautiful”, but it also means “capable, suitable” (the opposite is used, for
example, in the common saying “good for nothing”, meaning incompetent,
unfit). Well, these women clearly appeared “good”, that is “appropriate” to
establish relationships, the setting of families: in other words suitable for
practicing sexual intercourse and subsequent reproduction.
Then the text continues by telling the anger and the sorrow of “god” who,
seeing this barbarity, decides to erase humanity from the Earth's face.
Here is the full passage from the Settled Bible:
Therefore the Lord saw that men's wickedness was great on the Earth and that the aspirations
of the thoughts of their hearts were constantly aimed at evil and the Lord repented of having
created man on Earth, he complained in his heart and said: “I will destroy man whom I have
created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of
the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Reading this passage we can not help but ask ourselves some questions:
Could this omniscient God not predict what would have happened?
Did he not know that his creatures' behavior depended on the features that
he himself had provided?
What nonsense it is to furnish someone with the freedom to decide his
fate, if he is then punished because his decisions do not correspond to the
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