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Genesis 6:2

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

In Context

1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be an hundred and twenty years.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 24:3and I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

Genesis 27:46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

Exodus 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn:

Deuteronomy 7:3neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Joshua 23:12Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to 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 →

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