3 God threateneth to bring the flood. 5 Man altogether corrupt. 6 God repenteth that he made him. 18 Noah and his are preserved in the Ark, which he was commanded to make.

So when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and there were daughters born unto them,

Then the [a]sons of God saw the daughters [b]of men that they were [c]fair, and they took them wives of all that they [d]liked.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:2 The children of the godly, which began to degenerate.
  2. Genesis 6:2 Those that came of wicked parents, as of Cain.
  3. Genesis 6:2 Having more respect to their beauty and to worldly considerations, than to their manners and godliness.
  4. Genesis 6:2 Or, had chosen.

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