1 (NIV) When men began to
increase in number on the earth and daughters were
born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters
of men were beautiful, and they married any of them
they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will
not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a
hundred and twenty years." 4 The Nephilim were on the
earth in those days–and also afterward–when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by
them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.