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The general consensus of historians and scholars when it comes to myths and legends

is that these are attempts to explain

the creation of the world and certain events around them. But what of these were historical

accounts of actual events handed down through oral tradition until they were eventually written

down? In many of these handed down through oral tradition until they were eventually written down.

In many of these myths, there are tales of gods mating with humans and having offspring.

That's in the Bible, too, when we call those weird, the wonderful, and the terrifying in the Bible.

I'm Diane Student, your guide and host on this strange journey through the Bible.

Episode 4, Nephilim.

Music Genesis 6 versus 1 1 through 4.

Now it came about when mankind began to multiply on the face of the land,

and daughters were born to them,

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful,

and they took wives for themselves,

whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, My spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh. Nevertheless, his days shall be 120 years. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days,

and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters

of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

There's a lot to unpack in this passage. Nephilim is an unusual word, and doesn't show up in all

translations of the Bible, but I believe when it does, it is because

we don't really have a word in English that translates it perfectly. The Nephilim that I've been

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