line of Cain who did not share the spiritual values of the Sethites. They married superficially for their attraction to these women was based on the sole fact that they were fair. They married polygamously, “whomsoever they chose” (NASB). Another manifestation of the degradation of humankind is seen in the violence associated with the nephilim (6:4). The nephilim were not so much giants (KJV), as tyrants. The word comes from the Hebrew root meaning “to fall upon.” The nephilim where those who were