Genesis 6:2
Good News Translation
some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.

New Revised Standard Version
the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.

New American Bible
the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of human beings were, and so they took for their wives whomever they pleased.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

the sons.

Genesis 4:26 But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.

Exodus 4:22,23 And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn. . . .

Deuteronomy 14:1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

Psalm 82:6,7 I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High. . . .

Isaiah 63:16 For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

Malachi 2:11 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

John 8:41 You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

John 8:42 Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded and came. For I came not of myself: but he sent me.

Romans 9:7,8 Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:18 And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

saw.

2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with covetousness: children of malediction.

that they.

Genesis 3:6 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.

Genesis 39:6,7 Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he ate. And Joseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to behold. . . .

2 Samuel 11:2 In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful.

Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.

and they.

Genesis 24:3 That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

Genesis 27:46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.

Exodus 34:16 Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:3,4 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son: . . .

Joshua 23:12,13 But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships: . . .

Ezra 9:1,2,12 And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites. . . .

Nehemiah 13:24-27 And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people. . . .

Malachi 2:15 Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

1 Corinthians 7:39 A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband die, she is at liberty. Let her marry to whom she will: only in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:14-16 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? . . .

Context
Corruption on the Earth
1And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.3And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.…
Cross References
Genesis 6:1
And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:3
And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:1
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