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Genesis 6:1-2
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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.

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  1. 6.1,2 supernatural beings: Or “angels.”
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Genesis 6:1-2
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Wickedness in the World

6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth(A) and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God(B) saw that the daughters(C) of humans were beautiful,(D) and they married(E) any of them they chose.

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