Genesis 6:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But 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.

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  • Num 13:33 : 33 And there we sawe also giauntes the chyldren of Anac whiche come of the giauntes: And we seemed in our sight as it were grashoppers, and so we dyd in their sight.
  • Deut 2:20-21 : 20 That also was taken for a lande of giauntes, and giauntes dwelt therin in olde tyme, whom the Ammonites call Zamzummims. 21 A people that was great, many, and tall, as the Anakims: But the Lorde destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritaunce, and dwelt in their steade:
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 For only Og kyng of Basan, remayned of the remnaunt of the giauntes, whose bed was a bed of iron: And is it not yet at Rabbath among ye children of Ammon? Nine cubites doth the length therof contayne, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man.
  • 2 Sam 21:15-22 : 15 Moreouer, yt Philistines had yet warre againe with Israel, and Dauid went downe and his seruauntes with him, & fought against the Philistines: And Dauid waxed faintie. 16 And Iesbi benob one of the sonnes of the giauntes (the iron of whose speare wayed three hundred sicles of brasse) and he being gyrded with a new sword, thought to haue slaine Dauid. 17 But Abisai the sonne of Zaruia succoured him, & smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the seruauntes of Dauid sware vnto him, saying: Thou shalt go no more out with vs to battaile, that thou quenche not the light of Israel. 18 And yet after this, there was a battaile with the Philistines at Gob, and then Sibbechai the Husathite slue Saph which was one of ye sonnes of the giauntes. 19 And there was another battaile in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the sonne of Iaere Oregim a Beth lehennite slue Goliath ye Gethite: the staffe of whose speare was as great as a weauers clothbeame. 20 And there was yet another battaile in Geth, wher was a man of a great stature, and had on euery hand sixe fingers, & on euery foote sixe toes, foure & twentie in number, and was borne also of the kindred of the giauntes in Geth. 21 And when he defyed Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Simea the brother of Dauid slue him. 22 These foure were borne to the giaunt in Geth, and dyed by the hand of Dauid, & by the handes of his seruauntes.
  • 1 Sam 17:4 : 4 And there came a man betweene the both, out of the tentes of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath: sixe cubites and a handbreadth long:

Similar Verses (AI)

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    84%

    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:

    2And 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.

    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.

  • Gen 6:5
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    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.

  • 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.

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

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  • Gen 2:4
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    4These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

  • Num 13:33
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    33And there we sawe also giauntes the chyldren of Anac whiche come of the giauntes: And we seemed in our sight as it were grashoppers, and so we dyd in their sight.

  • 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.

  • Luke 17:26
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    26And as it was in the dayes of Noe: so shall it be also in the dayes of the sonne of man.

  • Gen 5:19
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    19And Iered liued after he begat Henoch, eyght hundreth yeres, & begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Deut 2:20-21
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    68%

    20That also was taken for a lande of giauntes, and giauntes dwelt therin in olde tyme, whom the Ammonites call Zamzummims.

    21A people that was great, many, and tall, as the Anakims: But the Lorde destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritaunce, and dwelt in their steade:

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

  • Deut 2:10-11
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    10The Emims dwelt therin in tymes past, a people great, many, and tall, as the Anakims,

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

  • Matt 24:37
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    37But as the dayes of Noe were, so shall also the commyng of the sonne of man be.

  • Gen 5:22
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    22And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

  • 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.

  • Josh 12:4
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    4And the coast of Og king of Basan, which was of the remnaunt of the giauntes, and dwelt at Astharoth, and Edrai:

  • Gen 7:12
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    12And the rayne was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

  • Gen 5:26
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    26And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seue hundreth eightie and two yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

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    8The children of Raamah: Seba, and Dedan, Chus also begat Nimrod.

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    6By the which thinges the world that then was, perisshed, beyng then ouerrunne with water.

  • 1 Chr 1:3
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    3Henoh, Methusalah, Lamech.