Genesis 6:2
that the sons of the mighty saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, and took to them wives of all whom they pleased.
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Genesis 4:26And to Sheth also was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then in his days the sons of men desisted (or forbore) from praying in the name of the Lord.
Genesis 24:3And I will adjure thee by the Word of the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Kenaanaee among whom I dwell.
Genesis 27:46And Revekah said to Izhak, I am grieved in my life at the sight of the daughters of Hittah. If Jakob take a wife of the daughters of Hittah, like these of the daughters of the land, what to me is life?
Exodus 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharoh, Thus said the Lord; Israel is My son, My firstborn.
Deuteronomy 7:3Neither shalt thou intermarry with them; thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son.
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 →