A moment in scripture
Genesis 6:2
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That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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The surrounding passage
- Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
- Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
- Genesis 6:4
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.