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The Lord said, “My breath[a] will not remain in humans forever, because they are flesh. They will live one hundred twenty years.” In those days, giants[b] lived on the earth and also afterward, when divine beings and human daughters had sexual relations and gave birth to children. These were the ancient heroes, famous men.

Great flood

The Lord saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on the earth and that every idea their minds thought up was always completely evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:3 Or spirit
  2. Genesis 6:4 Or the Nephilim

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