The Nephilim[a] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:4 Or giants

The Nephilim(A) were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans(B) and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.(C)

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32 So (A)they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and (B)all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 33 And there we saw the (C)Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the (D)Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves (E)like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

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32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report(A) about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours(B) those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.(C) 33 We saw the Nephilim(D) there (the descendants of Anak(E) come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers(F) in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

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