Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took themselves wives of all which they chose.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos; this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 24:3That I may make thee swear by the Lord the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:
Genesis 27:46And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.
Exodus 4:22And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
Deuteronomy 7:3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:
Joshua 23:12But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:2-3
Depravity of the World. ( b. c. 2469.) 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. For the glory of God's justice, and for warning to a wicked world, before the history of the ruin of the old world, we have a full account of its degeneracy, its apostasy from God and rebellion against him. The destroying of it was an act, not of an… Read the whole commentary →