Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were attractive. They took for themselves wives, any of them that they chose.
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1It came about when mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,
Cross References
Genesis 4:26A son was born to Seth and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 24:3and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I make my home.
Genesis 27:46Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes one of the daughters of Heth as a wife, like these women, some of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
Exodus 4:22You must say to Pharaoh, 'This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my son, my firstborn,
Deuteronomy 7:3Neither will you arrange any marriages with them. You will not give your daughters to their sons, and you will not take their daughters for your sons.
Joshua 23:12But if you turn back and cling to the survivors of these nations who remain among you, or if you intermarry with them, or if you come together with them and they with you,
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 →