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:In Genesis 6:1-4 we read: “The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took wives of all that they desired and chose. . .There were giants in the earth in those days — and also afterward — when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, and they bore CHILDREN to them” (Amplified Parallel Bible). The Jewish Tanakh has this passage: “When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the divine beings saw how beautiful the daughters of men were and took wives from among those that pleased them... . It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth — when the divine beings cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of old,, the men of renown.” The Moffatt Translation says, “Now when men began to multiply over all the world and had daughters born to them, the ANGELS noticed that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they MARRIED any one of them that they chose. . . . It was in these days that the Nephilim GIANTS arose on earth, as well as afterwards whenever angels had intercourse with the daughters of men and had children born to them; these were the heroes who were famous in the days of old.” The Septuagint Version has this verse, “the sons of God (Alexandrian, ANGELS of God) having seen the daughters of men... .” Josephus, in Antiquities of the Jews, says, “for many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength, for the tradition is that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians called GIANTS” (Jos., Ant., Bk.1, Il, 1). Says the translator William Whiston, in a footnote, “This notion, that the fallen angels were, in some sense, the fathers of the old giants, was the constant opinion in antiquity.” ” A Great Mystery Could it be true?