Genesis 6:1 - New Revised Standard Version

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,

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.