Sons of God and Daughters of Mankind

6 When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them, ² the sons of God^(A) saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.^{(B) 3} And the Lord said, ‘My Spirit will not remain^[a] with^[b] mankind for ever,^(C) because they are corrupt.^[c](D) Their days will be 120 years.’ ⁴ The Nephilim^[d] were on the earth both in those days and afterwards, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

⁴ For if God didn’t spare^(A) the angels who sinned but cast them into hell^[a](B) and delivered them in chains^[b] of utter darkness to be kept for judgement;^(C)