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Genesis 6:2

World English Bible

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

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Genesis 6:2 in other translations

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.

Genesis 6:2 · American Standard Version

Genesis 6:2 in context

  1. 1When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
  2. 2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
  3. 3Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
  4. 4The 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.