Genesis 6:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ WHEN MEN began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

Common English Bible

¹ When the number of people started to increase throughout the fertile land, daughters were born to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them.

Genesis 6:1 Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

Genesis 5:32

After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.