Genesis 6:1

New American Bible - revised edition

When human beings began to grow numerous on the earth and daughters were born to them,

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth.

Genesis 5:32

When Noah was five hundred years old, he begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of human beings were, and so they took for their wives whomever they pleased.