Genesis 6:7
וַ יֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶמְחֶה אֶת הָ אָדָם אֲשֶׁר בָּרָאתִי מֵ עַל פְּנֵי הָ אֲדָמָה מֵ אָדָם עַד בְּהֵמָה עַד רֶמֶשׂ וְ עַד עֹוף הַ שָּׁמָיִם כִּי נִחַמְתִּי כִּי עֲשִׂיתִם
And Yahweh is saying, `I am blotting-out אֶת-the Red-one whom I have cut out from upon the faces of the Red-one,237 from the Red-one until a behemah, until a crawling-one, and until the flying one of the Dual-Heavens, for I have been consoled that I have made them.`238
| 237 | I wipe out. This is the same verb, machah that forms the name Mehujael, the great-grandson of Cain. See Genesis 4:18. The perfect have cut out signifies the end of the story of God’s creative work of Adam, when he wipes him out. |