Genesis 6:2
and the sons of God saw that these women were beautiful, and they took whichever ones they wanted.
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1People started to increase in number and spread out across the earth. Daughters were born to them,
Cross References
Genesis 4:26Later Seth had a son named Enosh, because at that time people began to worship the Lord by name.
Genesis 24:3and swear an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you won't arrange for my son to marry any daughter of the these Canaanite people that I'm living among.
Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah went and told Isaac, “I'm so sick of these Hittite women—they're ruining my life! If Jacob also marries a Hittite woman like them, one of the local people, I'd rather die!”
Exodus 4:22This is what you are to tell Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says. Israel is my firstborn son.
Deuteronomy 7:3Don't intermarry with them. Don't let your daughters marry their sons or have their daughters marry your sons,
Joshua 23:12For if you do turn from him, and adopt the ways of the nations that are left, if you intermarry with them, associating with one another,
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 →