The Nephilim
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Nephilim: Where do they come from?
Nephilim: Where do they come from?
Genesis 6:1–4 (ESV)
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Nephilim: Where else are they in the Bible?
Nephilim: Where else are they in the Bible?
Numbers 13:33 (ESV)
And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
Deuteronomy 2:10–11 (ESV)
(The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim. Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deuteronomy 3:11 (ESV)
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
Nephilim: Where can you read about them outside of the Bible?
Nephilim: Where can you read about them outside of the Bible?
And it happened that when the sons of humans multiplied in those days, they fathered good and beautiful daughters. And the angels, the sons of heaven, saw them and desired them and said to one another, “Come let us choose for ourselves women from among the humans and bring forth children for ourselves.” 1 Enoch 6:1–2
But those who became pregnant brought forth great giants from three thousand cubits. These giants ate up the produce of the humans. When the humans were not able to provide for them, the giants had courage against them and ate up the humans. And they began to sin against birds and wild animals and reptiles and fish, and each one of them ate up the flesh and drank the blood. Then the earth brought up charges against the lawless ones.
Nephilim: Where are they now?
Nephilim: Where are they now?
And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.