¹ And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

^{2 Ref} and sons of God see the daughters of men that they `are' fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

^{3 Ref} And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they `are' flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

^{4 Ref} The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they `are' the heroes, who, from of old, `are' the men of name.

^{5 Ref} And Jehovah seeth that abundant `is' the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;