Genesis 6:1
People started to increase in number and spread out across the earth. Daughters were born to them,
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2and the sons of God saw that these women were beautiful, and they took whichever ones they wanted.
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Genesis 1:28God blessed them and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:1
The most remarkable thing we have upon record concerning the old world is the destruction of it by the universal deluge, the account of which commences in this chapter, wherein we have, I. The abounding iniquity of that wicked world, ver. 1-5 , and ver. 11, 12 . II. The righteous God's just resentment of that abounding iniquity, and his holy resolution to punish it, ver. 6, 7 . III. The special favour of God to his servant Noah. 1. In the character given of him, ver. 8-10 . 2. In the communication of God's purpose… Read the whole commentary →