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The "Sons of God" are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible at Genesis 6:1–4. 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
God observes man's evil behaviour and decides to flood the earth and destroy all life. However, God finds one good man, Noah, "a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time", and decides that he will carry forth the lineage of man. God tells Noah to make an ark, and to bring with him his wife, and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth ...
The first occurrence is in Genesis 6:1–4, immediately before the account of Noah's Ark. Genesis 6:4 reads as follows: The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. [9]
The Hebrew term benei elohim ("sons of God" or "sons of the gods") in Genesis 6:2 [71] compares to the use of "sons of gods" (Ugaritic: b'n il) sons of El in Ugaritic mythology. [72] Karel van der Toorn states that gods can be referred to collectively as bene elim, bene elyon, or bene elohim. [16]
Less literal readings of Genesis 6:4 see the reference in that passage to the intermarriage of "sons of God", meaning the godly descendants of Seth or to people faithful to God generally, with "daughters of men", meaning the godless descendants of Cain, or to people who are not faithful to God generally. [9]
The account of the Book of Enoch has been associated with the passage in Genesis 6:1–4, which speaks of Sons of God instead of Watchers: When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the Lord ...
In Genesis 6:18, God says to Noah, "But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you" . The deuterocanonical Book of Tobit (written c. 225–175 BC) does not name any of the wives aboard Noah's Ark, but states that Noah's wife was one of his "own kindred ...
In Isaiah 9:6, the next king is greeted, similarly to the passages in Psalms.Like Psalm 45:7–8 he is figuratively likened to the supreme king God. [4]: 150 [18] Isaiah could also be interpreted as the birth of a royal child, Psalm 2 nevertheless leaves the accession scenario as an attractive possibility.