Genesis 6:2
some of the men who ◄belonged to/believed in► God saw that some of the women who did not ◄belong to/believe in► God were very beautiful. So they took whichever ones they chose to become their wives.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
1When people began to become very numerous all over the earth, and many daughters were born to them,
Cross References
Genesis 4:26When Seth grew up, he became the father of a son whom he named Enosh. About that time people began to worship Yahweh again.
Genesis 24:3Knowing that Yahweh God who created the heavens and the earth is listening, promise that you will not get a wife for my son, Isaac, from the women here in Canaan.
Genesis 27:46Rebekah also said to Isaac, “These foreign women whom Esau has married, who are descendants of Heth, are making my life miserable. I would prefer to die than to see Jacob marry a woman from the descendants of Heth in this area!”
Exodus 4:22Then say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh says: “The Israeli people [MTY] are as dear to me as firstborn sons [MET].
Deuteronomy 7:3You must not marry any of them. You must not allow your daughters to marry any of their sons or allow your sons to marry any of their daughters.
Joshua 23:12“If you turn away from doing what Yahweh desires and you associate with the people who are not Israelis, and if you marry them,
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 →