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What does Genesis 6:4 mean?
"The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown."
— Genesis 6:4 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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