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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB Origin of the Nephilim.* 1When
human beings began to grow numerous on the earth and daughters
were born to them, 2the sons of God* saw how beautiful the
daughters of human beings were, and so they took for their wives
whomever they pleased.a 3Then the LORD said: My spirit shall not
remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh.
Their days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years. 4The
Nephilim appeared on earth in those days, as well as later,*
after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of
human beings, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old,
the men of renown.b Warning of the Flood. 5* When the LORD saw
how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how
every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but
evil,c 6the LORD regretted making human beings on the earth, and
his heart was grieved.* 7So the LORD said: I will wipe out from
the earth the human