Genesis 6:2

Coverdale Bible (1535)

the children of God sawe the doughters of men, that they were fayre, and toke vnto the wyues soch as they liked.

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  • Deut 7:3-4 : 3 Ye shall not geue youre doughters vnto their sonnes, ner take their doughters vnto youre sonnes. 4 For they will make youre sonnes departe fro me, to serue straunge goddes: then shall the wrath of the LORDE waxe whote vpon you, and destroye you shortly.
  • Ezra 9:12 : 12 Therfore shal ye not geue youre doughters vnto their sonnes, and their doughters shall ye not take vnto youre sonnes, and seke not their peace and welth for euer, that ye maye be stronge, and enioye the good in the londe, and yt ye and youre children maye haue the inheritaunce of it for euermore.
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Now hath Iuda offended: yee the abhominacion is done in Israel and in Ierusale, for Iuda hath defyled the Sactuary of the LORDE, which he loued, and hath kepte the doughter of a straunge God.
  • Rom 9:7-8 : 7 nether are they all children, because they are the sede of Abraham: but in Isaac shal the sede be called 8 vnto the, that is, They which are children after the flesh, are not the children of God, but the children of the promes are counted for the sede.
  • Exod 34:16 : 16 and lest thou take of their doughters vnto thy sonnes to wyues, and the same go a whoringe after their goddes,
  • Ezra 9:1-2 : 1 Whan all this was perfourmed, the rulers came to me, and sayde: The people of Israel, and the prestes, & Leuites are not separated from the nacions in the londes as touchinge their abhominacions, namely of the Cananites, Hethites, Pheresites, Iebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egipcians, and Amorites. 2 For they haue taken the doughters of the same, & their sonnes, and haue myxte the holy sede with ye nacions in the londes: and the hande of the rulers and lordes of councell hath bene principall in this trespace.
  • Neh 13:24-27 : 24 and their children spake halfe in the speache of Asdod, and coulde not speake in ye Iewish language, but by ye tonge mighte a ma perceaue euery people. 25 And I reproued them, and cursed them, & smote certayne men of the, and plucte them vp, and toke an ooth of them by God: Ye shal not geue youre daughters vnto their sonnes, nether shal ye take their daughters vnto youre sonnes, or for youre selues. 26 Dyd not Salomon ye kynge of Israel synne ther in? & yet amonge many Heythen was there no kynge like him, & he was deare vnto his God, and God made him kynge ouer all Israel, and the outlandish wemen. 27 (Omitted Text)
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 But yf ye turne backe, and cleue vnto these other nacions, and make mariages with them, so that ye come amoge them, and they amonge you, 13 be ye sure then, that the LORDE youre God shall nomore dryue out all these nacions before you, but they shall be vnto you a snare and net, and prickes in youre sydes, and thornes in youre eyes, vntyll he haue destroyed you from the good lode, which the LORDE youre God hath geuen you.
  • Gen 4:26 : 26 And Seth begat a sonne also, and called him Enos. At the same tyme beganne men to call vpon the name of the LORDE.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 And Rebecca sayde vnto Isaac: I am weery of my life, because of the doughters of Heth: Yf Iacob take a wife of the doughters of Heth, which are as the doughters of this londe, what shall this life then profit me?
  • Gen 39:6-7 : 6 therfore left he all yt he had, in Iosephs hande. And medled with nothinge himself, saue onely the bred that he ate. And Ioseph was fayre of bewtye, and well fauoured of face. 7 And it fortuned after these actes, that his masters wife cast hir eyes vpon Ioseph, and sayde: Slepe with me.
  • Exod 4:22-23 : 22 And thou shalt saie vnto Pharao: Thus sayeth ye LORDE: Israel is my first borne sonne, 23 & I saye vnto the: Let my sonne go, yt he maye serue me: Yf thou wilt not let him go, then wil I slaye thy firstborne sonne.
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And aboute the euetyde it fortuned that Dauid arose from his restinge place, & wente vp to ye toppe of the kynges palace, and from ye toppe he sawe a woman wasshinge hir selfe, and the woman was of a very fayre bewtye.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 Ye are the children of the LORDE youre God, Cut not youre selues therfore, & make you no baldnesse betwene youre eyes ouer eny deed.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made a couenaunt wt myne eyes, yt I wolde not loke vpo a dasell.
  • Ps 82:6-7 : 6 I haue sayde: ye are goddes, ye all are the childre of ye most hyest. 7 But ye shal dye like men, & fall like one of the tyrauntes.
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 Yet art thou or father: For Abraham knoweth vs not, nether is Israel acquanted with vs. But thou LORDE art oure father and redemer, and thy name is euer lastinge.
  • John 8:41-42 : 41 Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: We are not borne of fornicacion, we haue one father, euen God. 42 Iesus sayde vnto them: Yf God were youre father, then wolde ye loue me. For I am proceaded forth, and come from God. For I am not come of my self, but he hath sent me.
  • 1 Cor 7:39 : 39 The wife is bounde to the lawe, as longe as hir hussbande lyueth. But yf hir hussbande slepe, she is at liberty to mary vnto whom she wil, onely that it be done in the LORDE.
  • 2 Cor 6:14-16 : 14 Set youre selues therfore at large.Beare not a straunge yock with the vnbeleuers. For what fellishippe hath righteousnes with vnrighteousnes? What company hath lighte wt darknesse? 15 How agreeth Christ with Belial? Or what parte hath the beleuer with the infydele? 16 How acordeth ye teple of God with ymages? Ye are the temple of the lyuynge God, as sayeth God: I wyl dwell in them, and walke in them, and wyl be their God, & they shalbe my people.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 & be youre father, & ye shalbe my sonnes and doughters, sayeth ye Allmightie LORDE.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 hauynge eyes full of aduoutrye, and ca not ceasse from synne, entysinge vnstable soules: hauynge an hert exercysed wt couetousnes: they are cursed children,
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 for all that is in the worlde (namely the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pryde 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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    1So whan men beganne to multiplie vpon the earth, and had begot them doughters,

  • Gen 6:3-6
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    3Then sayde ye LORDE: My sprete shal not allwaye stryue with man, for he is but flesh also. I wil yet geue him respyte an hundreth and twety yeares.

    4There were giauntes also in the worlde at that tyme. For whan the children of God had lyen with the daughters of men, and begotten them children, ye same (children) became mightie in the worlde, and men of renowne.

    5But whan the LORDE sawe yt the wickednes of man was increased vpon ye earth, and that all ye thought and imaginacion of their hert was but onely euell contynually,

    6it repented him, that he had made man vpon the earth, and he sorowed in his hert,

  • Judg 3:6
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    6they toke their doughters to wyues, & gaue their doughters vnto their sonnes, & serued their goddes,

  • Gen 5:4
    71%

    4& lyued therafter eight hudreth yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.

  • Exod 34:16
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    16and lest thou take of their doughters vnto thy sonnes to wyues, and the same go a whoringe after their goddes,

  • Jer 29:6
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    6take you wyues, to beare you sonnes and doughters: prouyde wyues for youre sonnes, & hu?bondes for youre doughters: that they maye get sonnes & doughters, and that ye maye multiplie there. Laboure not to be fewe,

  • Gen 6:11-12
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    71%

    11Notwithstondinge ye earth was corrupte in ye sight of God, and full of myschefe.

    12Then God loked vpon ye earth: and lo, it was corrupte (for all flesh had corrupte his waye vpon the earth.)

  • Gen 19:31
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    31Then sayde ye elder vnto the yonger: Oure father is olde, and there is not a man more vpon earth, that can come in vnto vs after the maner of all the worlde.

  • Gen 3:6
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    6And the woman sawe that ye tre was good to eate of, and lustye vnto the eyes, and a pleasaunt tre to make wyse, and toke of the frute of it, and ate, and gaue vnto hir husbande also therof, and he ate.

  • Mark 10:6
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    6But from the first creacion God made the man and woman.

  • Gen 2:22-23
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    22And the LORDE God made a woman, of ye rybbe that he toke out of man, and brought her vnto him.

    23Then sayde man: This is once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was take of man.

  • Gen 6:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18But with the wyll I make a couenaunt, and thou shalt go in to the Arcke with thy sonnes, with thy wyfe, and with thy sonnes wyues.

    19And of all creatures what so euer flesh it be, thou shalt bringe into the Arcke, euen a payre: the male and the female, that they maye lyue wt the:

  • Gen 34:9
    69%

    9make frendshipe with vs, geue vs youre doughters, and take ye oure doughters,

  • Job 42:15
    69%

    15In all the londe were none founde so fayre, as the doughters of Iob, & their father gaue them enheritaunce amonge their brethren.

  • Gen 5:2
    69%

    2Male and female made he them, and blessed the, & called their names Man, in the tyme whan they were created.

  • Gen 34:21
    69%

    21These men are peaceable with vs, and will dwell in the lande and occupye: now is the londe brode of both the sydes, we wyl take their doughters vnto vs, and geue them oure doughters.

  • Gen 7:6
    69%

    6Sixe hudreth yeare olde was he, whan the water floude came vpon earth.

  • Ezra 10:44
    69%

    44All these had taken straunge wyues. And amonge the same wyues there were some, that had borne children.

  • Gen 4:19
    69%

    19And Lamech toke him two wyues: ye one was called Ada, & the other Zilla.

  • Luke 17:27
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    27They ate, they dranke, they maried, and were maried, euen vnto ye daye that Noe wente in to the Arke, and ye floude came, and destroyed them all.

  • Job 1:6
    69%

    6Now vpon a tyme, when the seruauntes of God came and stode before the LORDE, Sathan came also amonge them.

  • Gen 1:26
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    26And God sayde: let vs make man in or similitude after oure licknesse, that he maye haue rule ouer the fysh of the see, and ouer the foules vnder ye heauen, and ouer catell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer all wormes that crepe on ye earth.

  • Judg 21:22
    68%

    22As for their fathers and brethren, whan they come to lawe with vs, we wyll saye vnto them: Be fauourable to them, for they haue not taken the in battaill: but ye gaue the not vnto them by time, and it is youre faute.

  • Gen 1:28
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    28And God blessed them, and sayde vnto them: Growe, and multiplie, and fyll the earth, and subdue it, & haue domynion ouer the fish of the see, and ouer the foules of the ayre, and ouer all the beastes that crepe vpo the earth.