Genesis 6:1 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 6:1

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Irenaeus

The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, Sections 18-19 (202)

And for a very long while wickedness extended and spread, and reached and laid hold upon the whole race of mankind, until a very small seed of righteousness remained among them: and illicit unions took place upon the earth, since angels were united with the daughters of the race of mankind; and they bore to them sons who for their exceeding greatness were called giants.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיְהִי֙	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
הֵחֵ֣ל	he.Chel	<it> began	H2490 →
הָֽאָדָ֔ם	ha.'a.Dam	<the> humankind	H120 →
לָרֹ֖ב	la.Ro	to become numerous	H7231 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] surface of	H6440 →
הָֽאֲדָמָ֑ה	ha.'a.da.Mah	the ground	H127 →
וּבָנ֖וֹת	u.va.Not	and daughters	H1323 →
יֻלְּד֥וּ	yu.le.Du	they were born	H3205 →
לָהֶֽם׃	la.Hem	to <the> them

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature…
leads to
- Genesis 9:1
  And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
- Genesis 9:7
  But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
- Leviticus 26:9
  I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
- Psalms 128:3–4
  Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- Genesis 22:17–18
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.