¹ It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

^{2 Ref} that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

^{3 Ref} Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

^{4 Ref} The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

^{5 Ref} Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

^{6 Ref} Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

^{7 Ref} Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."