Genesis 6: Fallen Giants

YINR 929: Tanach Yomi · Sep 7, 2025 · 2m

Genesis 6 is the prelude to the flood story. Humankindhas spread across the land and immediately turns to evil.

“The LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth,and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time”

וַיַּרְא יְהוָה כִּי רַבָּה רָעַת הָאָדָם בָּאָרֶץ, וְכָל-יֵצֶר מַחְשְׁבֹת לִבּוֹ רַק רַע כָּל-הַיּוֹם (Genesis 6:5)

God regrets having created man, and instead decides towipe them out. The opening verses of this chapter are difficult to understand:

“The sons of the Elohim saw how beautiful the daughtersof men were and took wives from among those that…