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Genesis 6:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 6:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Wickedness of Humans
6 When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,(A) 2 the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.(B) 3 Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide[a] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”(C)
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- 6.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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