Genesis 6:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.

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  • Deut 7:3-4 : 3 Thou shalt make no mariages with them: neither geue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne. 4 For they wyll deceaue thy sonne, that he shoulde not folowe me, and they shal serue straunge gods: and then wyll the wrath of the Lorde waxe hot agaynst thee, and destroy thee sodenly.
  • Ezra 9:12 : 12 Therfore shal ye not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, and their daughters shall ye not take vnto your sonnes, nor seke their peace and wealth for euer: that ye may be strong and enioy the goodnesse of the lande, and that ye and your children may haue the inheritaunce of it for euermore.
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Iuda hath offended, & abhomination is committed in Israel and in Hierusalem? for Iuda hath defiled the holynesse of the Lorde which he loued, and hath maried the daughter of a straunge God.
  • Rom 9:7-8 : 7 Neither are they all chyldren that are the seede of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seede be called. 8 That is to say: They which are the chyldren of the fleshe, are not the chyldren of God: But they which be the childre of promise, are counted the seede.
  • Exod 34:16 : 16 And thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters go a whoryng after their gods, and make thy sonnes go a whoryng after their gods also.
  • Ezra 9:1-2 : 1 When these thinges were done, the rulers came to me, and sayde: The people of Israel, and the priestes & Leuites are not separated from the people of the landes, as touching their abhominations: namely of the Chanaanites, Hethites, Pherezites, Iebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. 2 For they haue taken the daughters of the same to them selues and to their sonnes, and the holy seede is mixed with the nations of the landes, & the hand of the princes and rulers hath ben principall in the trespasse.
  • Neh 13:24-27 : 24 And their children spake halfe in the speach of Asdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, but according to the language of the one people and of the other people. 25 Then I reproued them, and cursed them, and smote certayne men of them, and made them bare: and toke an oth of them by God, Ye shall not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take their daughters vnto your sonnes, or for your selues. 26 Dyd not Solomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? and yet among many heathen was there no king like him, which was deare vnto his God, & God made hym king ouer all Israel: and yet neuerthelesse outlandishe women caused him to sinne. 27 Shall we then obey vnto you to do al this great euyll, and to transgresse against our God, and marie straunge wyues?
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 Els, if ye go backe and cleaue vnto the rest of these nations that remaine with you, & shall make mariages with them, and go in vnto them, and they to you: 13 Be ye sure that the Lorde your God will no more cast out all these nations from before you: but they shalbe snares and trappes vnto you, and scourges in your sides, & thornes in your eyes, vntill ye perishe from of this good land whiche the Lorde your God hath geuen you.
  • Gen 4:26 : 26 And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 And Rebecca spake to Isahac: I am weery of my lyfe for the daughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wyfe of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the lande, what good shall my lyfe do me?
  • Gen 39:6-7 : 6 And therfore he left all that he had in Iosephes hande: and he knewe nothyng with hym, saue onlye the breade which he dyd eate. And Ioseph was a goodly person, and a well fauoured. 7 And after this, his maisters wyfe cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and saide: come lye with me.
  • Exod 4:22-23 : 22 And thou shalt saye vnto Pharao: Thus sayeth the Lorde, Israel is my sonne euen my first borne sonne. 23 And I sayde vnto thee, that thou let my sonne go, that he may serue me. And if thou refuse to let him go: beholde, I do slay thy sonne euen thy first borne.
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And in an euening tyde, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the kinges palace, and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe, and the woman was very beautifull to loke vpon.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 Ye are the childre of the Lord your God: Ye shall not cut your selues, nor make you any baldnes betwene your eyes for ye dead man.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made a couenaunt with myne eyes: why then should I loke vpon a mayden?
  • Ps 82:6-7 : 6 I haue sayde ye are gods: and ye all are chyldren of the most highest. 7 But ye shall dye lyke as a man doth: and princes them selues shall fall away lyke as other do.
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 Yet art thou our father: for Abraham knoweth vs not, neither is Israel acquainted with vs: but thou Lorde art our father and redeemer, and thy name is euerlasting.
  • John 8:41-42 : 41 Ye do the deedes of your father. Then said they to him: We be not borne of fornication, we haue one father, euen God. 42 Iesus saide vnto them: Yf God were your father, truely ye woulde loue me: For I proceaded foorth, and came from God: neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.
  • 1 Cor 7:39 : 39 The wyfe is bounde to the lawe as long as her husbande lyueth: but if her husband be dead, she is at libertie to marry with whom she wil, onely in the Lorde.
  • 2 Cor 6:14-16 : 14 And beare not ye a straunge yoke with the vnbeleuers. For what felowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? Or what communion hath lyght with darkenesse? 15 Or what concorde hath Christe with belyall? Eyther what part hath he that beleueth, with an infidell? 16 Or howe agreeth the temple of God with images? For ye are the temple of the lyuing God, as saide God, I wyll dwell in them, & walke in them & wyll be their God, & they shalbe my people.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And wyll be a father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lorde almightie.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Hauyng eyes full of adulterie, & that can not ceasse from sinne, begylyng vnstable soules: Heartes they haue exercised with robberie, they are cursed chyldren,
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the worlde, as the lust of the fleshe, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the father, but of the worlde.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 6:1
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    1And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:

  • Gen 6:3-6
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    3And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.

    4But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.

    5But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day.

    6And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.

  • Judg 3:6
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    6And toke the daughters of them to be their wiues, & gaue their own daughters to their sonnes, and serued their goddes.

  • Gen 5:4
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    4Al the dayes of Adam after he had begotten Seth, were eyght hudreth yeres, and he begat sonnes and daughters.

  • Exod 34:16
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    16And thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters go a whoryng after their gods, and make thy sonnes go a whoryng after their gods also.

  • Jer 29:6
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    6Take you wiues to beare you sonnes and daughters, prouide wiues for your sonnes, and husbandes for your daughters, that they may get sonnes & daughters: and that ye may multiplie there, and decrease not.

  • Gen 6:11-12
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    11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie.

    12And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.

  • Gen 19:31
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    31And the elder said vnto the younger: our father is olde, and there is not a man in the earth to come in vnto vs after the maner of all the worlde.

  • Gen 3:6
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    6And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate.

  • Mark 10:6
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    6But from the begynnyng of the creation, God made them male & female.

  • Gen 2:22-23
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    22And the ribbe which the lord god had taken from man, made he a woman, & brought her vnto the man.

    23And man saide: this is nowe bone of my bones, and fleshe of my fleshe, she shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

  • Gen 6:18-19
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    18With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt: and thou shalt come into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, thy wife, and thy sonnes wyues with thee.

    19And of euery lyuyng thyng of all fleshe, a payre of euery one shalt thou bryng into the arke to kepe them alyue with thee, they shalbe male & female.

  • Gen 34:9
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    9And make maryages with vs, and geue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you.

  • Job 42:15
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    15In al the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.

  • Gen 5:2
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    2Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the daye of their creation.

  • Gen 34:21
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    21These men lyue peaceably among vs, and dwell in the lande, and do theyr occupation therein: and beholde, the lande is large inough for them, we will take their daughters to wiues, & geue them our daughters.

  • Gen 7:6
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    6And Noah was sixe hundreth yere olde, when the fluddes of water came vpon the earth.

  • Ezra 10:44
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    44All these had taken straunge wyues, and among the same there were some that had children by the wyues.

  • Gen 4:19
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    19And Lamech toke vnto hym two wyues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Sella.

  • Luke 17:27
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    27They dyd eate, and drynke, they maryed wiues, and were maryed, euen vnto the same day that Noe went into the Arke: and the fludde came, & destroyed them all.

  • Job 1:6
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    6And vpon a day when the children of God came and stoode before the lord, Satan came also among them.

  • Gen 1:26
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    26God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth.

  • Judg 21:22
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    22And when their fathers or brethren come vnto vs to complayne, we will say vnto them, Haue pitie on vs for their sakes: because we reserued not to eche man his wyfe in tyme of warre, neither haue ye geuen vnto them, that ye should sinne at this time.

  • Gen 1:28
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    28And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.