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Date: December 26, 2010 07:02PM
ipo Wrote:
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> The Nephilim are beings mentioned twice in the
> Hebrew Bible; in Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33.
> Traditions about the Nephilim are also found in a
> number of other Jewish and Christian writings.
>
> The term "Nephilim" occurs just twice in the
> Hebrew Bible, both in the Torah. The first is
> Genesis 6:1-4, immediately before the Noah's ark
> story:
>
> 1. 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.
>
> The second is Numbers 13:32-33, where the Hebrew
> spies report that they have seen fearsome giants
> in Canaan:
>
> 32. And they spread among the Israelites a bad
> report about the land they had explored. They
> said, "The land we explored devours those living
> in it. All the people we saw there are of great
> size.
> 33. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants
> of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like
> grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the
> same to them."
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim