God sends the flood, but also the corruption itself begged for the flood, too. It continues the Cain and Abel story, where Cain’s refusal to offer a worthy sacrifice and instead murders his brother for the audacity of being righteous, yet Abel’s blood cries out to God for vengeance. In Noah’s story, the violence of the wicked increases to the point where it is all they can imagine, so violence is of course their end. And again, in the Book of Exodus with the conflict between Moses and Pharaoh, Pharaoh starts Egypt’s judgment by murdering Hebrew babies and ends with Egyptian firstborn sons dying instead.
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