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Gen. 6:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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That the sons of God saw the daughters of menl that they were fair; and theym took them wives of all which they chose.

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Job 31:1• ¹I have presented a covenant to mine eyes,{HR}And how should I think on a maiden? (Job 31:1)

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Deut. 7:3‑4• ³And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;
⁴for he will turn away thy son from following me, and they will serve other gods, and the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly. (Deut. 7:3‑4)

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Ezra 9:12• ¹²Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. (Ezra 9:12)

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Neh. 13:26‑27• ²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.
²⁷And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives? (Neh. 13:26‑27)

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2 Cor. 6:14• ¹⁴Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers: for what partnership [is there] for righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship [hath] light with darkness? (2 Cor. 6:14)

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Gen. 4:26• ²⁶And to Sheth, to him also was born a son, and he called his name Enoch: then it was begun to call on Jehovah's name. (Gen. 4:26)

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Ex. 4:22‑23• ²²And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
²³And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me. And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn. (Ex. 4:22‑23)

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Deut. 14:1• ¹Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person. (Deut. 14:1)

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Psa. 82:6‑7• ⁶I said, Ye [are] gods,{HR}And all of you sons of the Most High;
⁷But ye shall die like men,{HR}And fall like one of the princes. (Psa. 82:6‑7)

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Isa. 63:16• ¹⁶For thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Jehovah, [art] our father; our Redeemer, from everlasting [is] thy name. (Isa. 63:16)

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Mal. 2:11• ¹¹Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. (Mal. 2:11)

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John 8:41• ⁴¹Ye practice the works of your father. They said [therefore] to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one father, God. (John 8:41)

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John 8:42• ⁴²Jesus said to them, If God were your father, ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me. (John 8:42)

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Rom. 9:7‑8• ⁷nor because they are Abraham's seed, [are] they all children, but “In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.”
⁸That is, not the children of the flesh, these [are] children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed; (Rom. 9:7‑8)

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2 Cor. 6:18• ¹⁸and will be to you for Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:18)

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2 Peter 2:14• ¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse; (2 Peter 2:14)

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Gen. 3:6• ⁶When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that [it was] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree [was] desirable to make wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. (Gen. 3:6)

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Gen. 39:6‑7• ⁶And he left all that [was] his in Joseph's hand, and took cognizance of nothing with him save the bread which he ate.
⁷And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife raised her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me! (Gen. 39:6‑7)

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2 Sam. 11:2• ²And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful; (2 Sam. 11:2)

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Job 31:1• ¹I have presented a covenant to mine eyes,{HR}And how should I think on a maiden? (Job 31:1)

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1 John 2:16• ¹⁶because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (1 John 2:16)

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Gen. 24:3• ³and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; (Gen. 24:3)

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Gen. 27:46• ⁴⁶And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life be to me? (Gen. 27:46)

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Ex. 34:16• ¹⁶and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. (Ex. 34:16)

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Deut. 7:3‑4• ³And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;
⁴for he will turn away thy son from following me, and they will serve other gods, and the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly. (Deut. 7:3‑4)

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Josh. 23:12‑13• ¹²For if ye in any wise go back, and cleave unto the residue of these nations, these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and come in unto them and they unto you:
¹³know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you. (Josh. 23:12‑13)

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Ezra 9:1‑2,12• ¹Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
²For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so, that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the head of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
¹²Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. (Ezra 9:1‑2,12)

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Neh. 13:24‑27• ²⁴And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
²⁵And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.
²⁷And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives? (Neh. 13:24‑27)

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Mal. 2:15• ¹⁵And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. (Mal. 2:15)

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1 Cor. 7:39• ³⁹A wife is bound as long as her husband liveth; but should the husband have fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in [the] Lord. (1 Cor. 7:39)

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2 Cor. 6:14‑16• ¹⁴Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers: for what partnership [is there] for righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship [hath] light with darkness?
¹⁵and what consent of Christ with Beliar? or what part for a believer with an unbeliever?
¹⁶and what agreement for God's temple with idols? For ye are [the] living God's temple, even as God said, I will dwell and walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. (2 Cor. 6:14‑16)

• Satan’s first effort was to frustrate God’s purpose, by putting the holy seed to death; and when that failed, he sought to gain his end by corrupting it. (“Genesis 6-9” by C.H. Mackintosh)

• That angels could appear as men is beyond controversy, and eat or drink if they pleased is certain from scripture. It is not for believers to recoil from the further and fullest intimations of God's word, because we cannot account for that which was avowedly a strange and portentous violation of nature. (“The Early Chapters of Genesis: Chapter 6:1-2” by W. Kelly)

• But it is impossible to deny that "sons of God," in the early books of the Bible (Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7), are found appropriated to angels. So in a slightly different form of the Hebrew we read in Psa. 29:1, and 89:6. (“The Early Chapters of Genesis: Chapter 6:1-2” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

W. Kelly Translation

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that the sons of God saw the daughters of mankind that they [were] fair and they took to them wives of all that they chose.