Comentário sobre Gênesis 6:3
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה לֹֽא־יָד֨וֹן רוּחִ֤י בָֽאָדָם֙ לְעֹלָ֔ם בְּשַׁגַּ֖ם ה֣וּא בָשָׂ֑ר וְהָי֣וּ יָמָ֔יו מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים שָׁנָֽה׃
Então disse o SENHOR: O meu Espírito não permanecerá <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Rav Saádia Gaon em sua explicação dá a entender que no futuro poderá voltar os anos do ser humano na Terra a serem como antes, pois todo o castigo sobreviera sobre aquela geração. Ou seja, depende de o ser humano (geral) mudar seus passos para o bem.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">para sempre no homem</span>, porquanto ele é carne, mas os seus dias serão <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Antes, podia chegar a dez vezes mais que o comum em nossos dias. Se seu período vital era dez vezes mais, entende-se o motivo de serem tão fortes, pois de acordo com o período vital é a força do homem, ou vice-versa, o que explica a continuação do assunto em concernência a sua força e valor.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">cento e vinte anos</span>.
Rashi on Genesis
Ramban on Genesis
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra explained that G-d said, “My spirit will not abide in man forever because of this violence and also because man is flesh, and when he reaches a certain age he disintegrates.” Ibn Ezra thus understands the verse as if it said, gam beshehu basar (also because he is flesh). But what need is there for stating this contention when it is known that they were but flesh.496Psalms 78:39. and death had been decreed on them, as it says, For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return?497Above, 3:19.
The correct interpretation appears to me to be that G-d said: “My spirit shall not abide in man forever because man also is flesh as all flesh that creepeth upon the earth in the forms of fowl and cattle and beast, and it is not fitting that the spirit of G-d be within him.” The purport is to state that G-d made man upright498Ecclesiastes 7:29. to be like the ministering angels by virtue of the soul He gave him. But he was drawn after the flesh and corporeal desires; he is like the beasts that perish,499Psalms 49:13. and therefore the spirit of G-d will no longer be sheathed in him for he is corporeal and not godly. However, He will prolong for them [this withdrawal of spirit] if they repent. The sense of this verse is thus similar to [the verse in Psalm 49]: So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.