Genesis 6:1 ASV — MannaFest

Genesis 6:1

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

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KJV

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

WEB

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

YLT

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

DBT

And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

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Matthew 24:37
And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
2 Kings 8:18
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
Malachi 2:11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.
2 Peter 2:5
and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Featured studyThe Watchers & the Nephilim — Genesis 6auto-extracted from the page's own chapter links

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About this book

The Creation of Light — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of…
leads to
- Genesis 9:1
  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
- Genesis 9:7
  And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
- Leviticus 26:9
  And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
- Psalms 128:3–4
  Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.
- Genesis 22:17–18
  that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall…

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