Genesis 6:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim), and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Numbers 16:2

two hundred fifty Israelite men, leaders of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men, and they confronted Moses.

Deuteronomy 2:11

Like the Anakim, they are usually reckoned as Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)

1 Samuel 17:4

And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was four cubits and a span.