Genesis 6:1-4
When God-ordained boundaries are ignored, corruption deepens and spreads across humanity.
1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
When God-ordained boundaries are ignored, corruption deepens and spreads across humanity.
To describe the rapid multiplication of humanity alongside increasing corruption, highlighting the breakdown of God-ordained distinctions and the intensification of wickedness prior to the flood.
Human Wickedness Fills the Earth, Yet God Preserves Noah Through Grace and Covenant Purpose
As human corruption fills the earth and provokes divine judgment, God shows grace to Noah, establishes His covenant purpose, and provides a means of preservation through obedient faith.