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Genesis 6:1-2
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The World Descends Into Evil

6 This is what happened when mankind[a] began to multiply on the face of the earth.[b]

When daughters were born to people, 2 the sons of God[c] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives for themselves any of them they chose.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:1 Literally the adam. The rendering of adam may be man, men, or mankind.
  2. Genesis 6:1 The adamah, the soil or ground
  3. Genesis 6:2 The sons of God were the descendants of Seth. They were marrying the daughters of the ungodly line of Cain and of those who followed in Cain’s way.
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