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"The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair" (Daniel Chester French, 1923). This sculpture depicts the sons of God as winged angels. Different source versions of Genesis 6:1–4 vary in their use of "sons of God". Some manuscripts of the Septuagint have emendations to read "sons of God" as "angels".
God observes man's evil behaviour and decides to flood the earth and destroy all life. However, God finds one good man, Noah, "a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time", and decides that he will carry forth the lineage of man. God tells Noah to make an ark, and to bring with him his wife, and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth ...
The Hebrew term benei elohim ("sons of God" or "sons of the gods") in Genesis 6:2 [71] compares to the use of "sons of gods" (Ugaritic: b'n il) sons of El in Ugaritic mythology. [72] Karel van der Toorn states that gods can be referred to collectively as bene elim, bene elyon, or bene elohim. [16]
The account of the Book of Enoch has been associated with the passage in Genesis 6:1–4, which speaks of Sons of God instead of Watchers: When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the Lord ...
In Isaiah 9:6, the next king is greeted, similarly to the passages in Psalms.Like Psalm 45:7–8 he is figuratively likened to the supreme king God. [4]: 150 [18] Isaiah could also be interpreted as the birth of a royal child, Psalm 2 nevertheless leaves the accession scenario as an attractive possibility.
the Sons of God who couple with the "daughters of men"; the Nephilim, "men of renown"; God's reasons for destroying the world (first account) The toledot of Noah (6–9:28) God's reasons for bringing the Flood (second account), his warning to Noah, and the construction of the Ark
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Less literal readings of Genesis 6:4 see the reference in that passage to the intermarriage of "sons of God", meaning the godly descendants of Seth or to people faithful to God generally, with "daughters of men", meaning the godless descendants of Cain, or to people who are not faithful to God generally. [9]