Genesis 6:1-3

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The Lord Will Send a Flood

6 ^1-2^(A) More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings^[a] came down and married the ones they wanted. ³Then the Lord said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever.^[b] No one will live for more than 120 years.”^[c]

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Footnotes

6.1,2 supernatural beings: Or “angels.”
6.3 I won't … forever: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
6.3 No one … years: Or “In fact, they will all be destroyed in about 100 years” (that is, at the time of the flood).