Genesis 6:5 is linked to the story in Genesis 6:1–4 about the sons of God fathering their own earthly children known as Nephilim. The Bible doesn’t say much else in Genesis about what happened, but pieces of the story show up elsewhere in the Bible, and in Jewish traditions outside the Bible the New Testament authors knew well and quoted in their writings. For example, Peter and Jude write about the angels who sinned before the flood (2 Pet. 2:4–6 GNT; see also Jude 5–6). Some of what they say comes
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