Bible Verse Lookup

As if it were an interruption in the list of Adam’s descendants, we find an elaborate account of an ancient belief in a special race of giants who, according to legend, come from the union of “celestial beings,” sons of God, with the daughters of human beings. It serves the writer to describe the scourge that the people suffered from the children of sacred prostitution, a widespread practice in that territory. The descendants of these unions claimed special privileges that led to further oppression and impoverishment for the people. It also reflects the painful memory of the injustices committed by the royal family. Remember that the king was considered the “son of God.”
This passage introduces us to the story of Noah. It heightens the tension between God’s harmonious and kind plan and human infidelity and corruption, which is the free and voluntary rejection of that plan. Seeing that man’s “wickedness” was “growing” on the earth (5), God “repents” of having created him (6). But immediately, Noah appears, who “obtained the favor of the Lord” (8).