Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and later too) when the heavenly beings lay with the human daughters who had their children. These were the mighty heroes of old, men of renown.

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There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

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3But the Lord said: ‘My spirit will not abide in people forever, because they are flesh; therefore they will live for only a hundred and twenty years.’

5When the Lord saw that people’s wickedness was increasing in the world, and that the trend of their thoughts was at all times toward evil,

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:4

3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. This comes in here as a token of God's displeasure at those who married strange wives; he threatens to withdraw from them his Spirit, whom they had grieved by such marriages, contrary to their convictions: fleshly lusts are often punished with spiritual judgments, the sorest of all judgments. Or as another occasion of the great wickedness of the old world; the Spirit of the… Read the whole commentary →

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