Here is the rewritten *ADDENDUM* with the Peshitta 1 Peter 3:21 confession - bringing it home: --- *ADDENDUM - AMAD - To Stand is to Dwell - The Flood as Immersion and Confession* The Peshitta in Genesis 6:3 does not just say dwell. It uses *AMAD - עמד - to stand.* *AMAD means to stand, to stand before, to stand with, to remain standing, to endure.* *And to stand before or with is KEN - to dwell with, to be established.* In Hebrew thought, *to stand with is to dwell with.* *To stand before the king is to dwell in the king's presence.* *To stand with the seed is to abide with the seed.* *To stand at the gate is to contend and judge at the gate.* This is Temple language. *We are purified through immersion to stand before Yehowah in the temple.* *Psalm 24:3-4 Who shall ascend into the hill of Yehowah? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart.* *Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time Yehowah separated the tribe of Levi... to stand before Yehowa...
*GEN 6:3 - The Spirit and the Seed - DIYN as DAN and DWELL* *And Yehowah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.* Genesis 6:3 The word translated *strive* is *YADON / YADIYN - ידון* It is from the root *DIYN / DIN / DAN - דין - דן* The same root as the tribe *DAN*, for *Dan shall judge his people.* Genesis 49:16 At first glance it looks like a courtroom word - *to judge, to contend, to plead a case, to strive.* That is why KJV renders *My spirit shall not always strive.* But *LXX and Peshitta both read dwell.* *LXX Greek: ou me katameine - shall by no means remain / abide* *Vulgate: non permanebit - shall not remain* *Peshitta Syriac: shall not dwell* *Targum Onkelos: lo yitqayyam - shall not be sustained, shall not remain* Is this a different text? No. *It is the same root.* Scholars say *"The LXX and the Syriac were probably influenced by some early Jewish Targum, since Onkelos give...