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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 that they chose. And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not [a]strive with man for ever, [b]for that he also is flesh: [c]yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. The [d]Nephilim were 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 were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

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  1. Genesis 6:3 Or, rule in. According to Septuagint, Vulgate, and Syriac, abide in
  2. Genesis 6:3 Or, in their going astray they are flesh
  3. Genesis 6:3 Or, therefore
  4. Genesis 6:4 Or, giants. See Num. 13:33.