Genesis 6:4

New American Bible - revised edition

The Nephilim appeared on earth in those days, as well as later, after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of human beings, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown. Warning of the Flood.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakim are from the Nephilim); in our own eyes we seemed like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them.”

Numbers 16:2

two hundred and fifty Israelites who were leaders in the community, members of the council and men of note, and confronted Moses.

Deuteronomy 2:11

like the Anakim they are considered Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Og, king of Bashan, was the last remaining survivor of the Rephaim. He had a bed of iron, nine regular cubits long and four wide, which is still preserved in Rabbah of the Ammonites.) Allotment of the Conquered Lands.

1 Samuel 17:4

A champion named Goliath of Gath came out from the Philistine camp; he was six cubits and a span tall.