Divine retribution

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Divine retribution or divine punishment is the supernatural punishment of a single person, a group of people, or everyone, by a deity in response to the invocation of their anger. Myths and folklore detailing how a deity imposed punishment on previous inhabitants of a land, causing widespread death and misfortune, can be found across many cultures. An example of divine retribution is the story, found in many religions, about a great flood that destroys all of humanity, as described in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Hindu Vedas, or the Hebrew Book of Genesis (6:9–8:22), but leaves one 'chosen' survivor. In the Tanakh, as well as the Old Testament and the Quran, a man named Nuh (Noah) was commanded by God to build an ark in order to survive a great flood; meanwhile, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the survivor of this flood is Utnapishtim, and in the Hindu Vedas, it is Manu. This suggests that one man and his followers were saved in a great flood. Other examples in biblical history include the dispersion...

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