Genesis 6:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.

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  • Deut 7:3-4 : 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither giue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne. 4 For they wil cause thy sonne to turne away from me, and to serue other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you and destroy thee suddenly.
  • Ezra 9:12 : 12 Now therfore shal ye not giue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take their daughters vnto your sonnes, nor seeke their peace nor wealth for euer, that yee may be strong and eate the goodnes of the lande, and leaue it for an inheritance to your sonnes for euer.
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Iudah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Ierusalem: for Iudah hath defiled the holinesse of the Lorde, which hee loued, and hath maried the daughter of a strange God.
  • Rom 9:7-8 : 7 Neither are they all children, because they are the seede of Abraham: but, In Isaac shall thy seede be called: 8 That is, they which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God: but the children of the promes, are counted for the seede.
  • Exod 34:16 : 16 And least thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters goe a whoring after their gods, and make thy sonnes goe a whoring after their gods.
  • Ezra 9:1-2 : 1 When as these things were done, the rulers came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the Priestes, and the Leuites are not separated from the people of the lands (as touching their abominations) to wit, of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Iebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they haue taken their daughters to theselues, and to their sonnes, and they haue mixed the holy seede with the people of the landes, and the hande of the princes and rulers hath bene chiefe in this trespasse.
  • Neh 13:24-27 : 24 And their children spake halfe in ye speach of Ashdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, and according to the language of the one people, and of the other people. 25 Then I reprooued them, & cursed them, and smote certaine of them, and pulled off their heare, and tooke an othe of them by God, Yee shall not giue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take of their daughters vnto your sonnes, nor for your selues. 26 Did not Salomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? yet among many nations was there no King like him: for he was beloued of his God, and God had made him King ouer Israel: yet strange women caused him to sinne. 27 Shall wee then obey vnto you, to doe all this great euil, and to transgresse against our God, euen to marry strange wiues?
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 Els, if ye goe backe, and cleaue vnto the rest of these nations: that is, of them that remaine with you, and shall make marriages with them, and goe vnto them, and they to you, 13 Knowe ye for certaine, that the Lord your God will cast out no more of these nations from before you: but they shall be a snare and destruction vnto you, and a whip on your sides, and thornes in your eyes, vntill ye perish out of this good land, which ye Lord your God hath giue you.
  • Gen 4:26 : 26 And to ye same Sheth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enosh. Then beganne men to call vpon the name of the Lord.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Also Rebekah said to Izhak, I am weary of my life, for the daughters of Heth. If Iaakob take a wife of the daughters of Heth like these of the daughters of the lande, what auaileth it me to liue?
  • Gen 39:6-7 : 6 Therefore he left all that he had in Iosephs hand, and tooke accompt of nothing, that was with him, saue onely of the bread, which he did eate; Ioseph was a faire person, and well fauoured. 7 Nowe therefore after these thinges, his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and saide, Lye with me.
  • Exod 4:22-23 : 22 Then thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lorde, Israel is my sonne, euen my first borne. 23 Wherefore I say to thee, Let my sonne go, that he may serue me: if thou refuse to let him goe, beholde, I will slay thy sonne, euen thy first borne.
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe: and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Ye shall not cut yourselues, nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made a couenant with mine eyes: why then should I thinke on a mayde?
  • Ps 82:6-7 : 6 I haue said, Ye are gods, and ye all are children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die as a man, and yee princes, shall fall like others.
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 Doutles thou art our Father: though Abraham be ignorant of vs, and Israel knowe vs not, yet thou, O Lord, art our Father, and our redeemer: thy Name is for euer.
  • John 8:41-42 : 41 Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God. 42 Therefore Iesus sayde vnto them, If God were your Father, then woulde ye loue mee: for I proceeded foorth, and came from God, neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.
  • 1 Cor 7:39 : 39 The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 6:14-16 : 14 Be not vnequally yoked with the infidels: for what felowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darkenesse? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath the beleeuer with the infidell? 16 And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God: as God hath said, I will dwell among them, and walke there: and I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And I will be a Father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lord almightie.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Hauing eyes full of adulterie, and that can not cease to sinne, beguiling vnstable soules: they haue heartes exercised with couetousnesse, they are the children of curse:
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in this world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of this world.

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    1So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,

  • Gen 6:3-6
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    3Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth & twentie yeeres.

    4There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.

    5When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,

    6Then it repented ye Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorie in his heart.

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    6And they tooke their daughters to bee their wiues, and gaue their daughters to their sonnes, and serued their gods.

  • Gen 5:4
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    4And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Sheth, were eight hundreth yeeres, and he begate sonnes and daughters.

  • Exod 34:16
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    16And least thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters goe a whoring after their gods, and make thy sonnes goe a whoring after their gods.

  • Jer 29:6
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    6Take you wiues, and beget sonnes and daughters, and take wiues for your sonnes, and giue your daughters to husbands, that they may beare sonnes and daughters, that ye may bee increased there, and not diminished.

  • Gen 6:11-12
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    11The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.

    12Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon the earth.

  • Gen 19:31
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    31And the elder saide vnto the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth, to come in vnto vs after the maner of all ye earth.

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    6So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.

  • Mark 10:6
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    6But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:

  • Gen 2:22-23
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    22And the ribbe which the Lorde God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

  • Gen 6:18-19
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    18But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.

    19And of euery liuing thing, of all flesh two of euery sort shalt thou cause to come into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shalbe male and female.

  • Gen 34:9
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    9So make affinitie with vs: giue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you,

  • Job 42:15
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    15In all the lande were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob, & 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 day that they were created.

  • Gen 34:21
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    21These men are peaceable with vs: and that they may dwell in the land, and doe their affaires therin (for behold, the land hath roume ynough for them) let vs take their daughters to wiues, and giue them our daughters.

  • Gen 7:6
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    6And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.

  • Ezra 10:44
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    44All these had taken strange wiues: and among them were women that had children.

  • Gen 4:19
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    19And Lamech tooke him two wiues: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

  • Luke 17:27
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    27They ate, they dranke, they married wiues, and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

  • Job 1:6
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    6Nowe on a day when the children of God came and stoode before the Lorde, Satan came also among them.

  • Gen 1:26
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    26Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.

  • Judg 21:22
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    22And when their fathers or their brethren come vnto vs to complaine, we wil say vnto them, Haue pitie on them for our sakes, because we reserued not to eche man his wife in the warre, and because ye haue not giuen vnto them hitherto, ye haue sinned.

  • Gen 1:28
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    28And God blessed them, and God said to them, Bring forth fruite and multiplie, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, & ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth.