Nephilim and the Days of Noah
Genesis 6 is four verses long and it has unsettled readers for three thousand years. This page does what the show does: it puts the actual text in front of you, in the King James and in the ancient Greek Septuagint, lays out the ways faithful people have read it, and refuses to either explain it away or turn it into a carnival.
The text itself
Four verses. That is the whole of it. Read them slowly, because almost every argument about giants, angels, and the days of Noah begins right here and most people arguing have never read the passage straight through.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:1-2, KJVThere were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:4, KJVNotice what the text does not do. It does not explain. It reports something, and moves immediately to the verdict of the next verse, which is the reason the flood comes at all.
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:5, KJVTwo ancient witnesses, side by side
The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures made by Jewish scholars in the centuries before Christ. It is the version the New Testament writers quote most often, which makes it the oldest surviving window into how these words were understood. At Genesis 6 one of its great manuscripts says the quiet part out loud.
King James Version
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:2Septuagint, Codex Alexandrinus
The angels of God, having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
Genesis 6:2, LXXKing James Version
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:4Septuagint, Brenton translation
Now the giants were upon the earth in those days, and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:4, LXXA third witness most readers never see
There is another place where the two traditions part company, and it matters here. When Moses sings about how God divided the nations, the King James follows the Hebrew text that came down to us through the Masoretes, while the Septuagint preserves a different reading, one that the Dead Sea Scrolls later supported.
King James Version
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:8Septuagint, Brenton translation
When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.
Deuteronomy 32:8, LXXRead the Greek line and then read Genesis 6 again. A worldview appears in which the nations were apportioned under heavenly beings, some of whom did not keep their station. That is not a fringe idea smuggled in from a movie. It is sitting in the oldest translation the apostles carried.
The word itself
The Hebrew is nephilim, tied to the verb naphal, to fall. Many render it the fallen ones. When the Septuagint translators reached for a Greek equivalent they chose gigantes, giants, the same word Greek speakers used for the mighty earth-born beings of their oldest stories. They were not being poetic. They were telling their readers what category of being they believed the text described.
The King James translators followed them, which is why your Bible says giants and not fallen ones. If you have ever wondered why two faithful translations of the same verse feel so different, that is the seam, and knowing where it runs makes you a better reader of every page that follows.
Three ways faithful readers have taken it
The sons of God are rebel angels who left their proper domain and took human wives, and the giants are the result. This is the oldest attested reading, carried in the Septuagint tradition, in ancient Jewish writings, and in the language Jude and Peter use when they describe angels who sinned.
The sons of God are the godly line of Seth intermarrying with the ungodly line of Cain, and the giants are simply violent men of great reputation. This reading rose toward dominance in the church from the fourth century onward and is still the most common in pulpits today.
The sons of God are ancient rulers who took women at will and styled themselves divine, and the passage is a polemic against god-kings. A minority reading, but held by capable scholars who read the ancient Near Eastern background closely.
This program lays all three out on purpose. A Christian is allowed to weigh evidence, and a page that hides two of the three answers is not teaching, it is recruiting. What follows is the New Testament testimony, and it belongs to all three readers to reckon with.
The New Testament remembers
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1:6, KJVFor if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2 Peter 2:4, KJVPeter's phrase cast them down to hell renders a single Greek verb built on Tartarus, the deepest prison in the Greek imagination. It is the only time that word appears in all of Scripture, and Peter reaches for it while speaking of angels who sinned, in a paragraph that then moves directly to Noah and the flood. Whatever conclusion you land on, that sequence is not an accident.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed.
Jude 1:14-15, KJVAfter the flood
If the giants were wiped out in the flood, the problem is that Scripture keeps mentioning them afterward, by name, with measurements, in the driest historical passages in the Bible.
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Numbers 13:33, KJVFor only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Deuteronomy 3:11, KJVThat is a bureaucrat's detail. The iron bed is on display in a named city and you may go and measure it. Scripture does not usually argue for the miraculous by giving you a street address, which is exactly why the verse lands the way it does.
And yet there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
2 Samuel 21:20, KJVHow tall was Goliath, really
Here the two witnesses part again, and this one is worth knowing before anyone accuses you of exaggerating.
King James Version
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
1 Samuel 17:4Septuagint, Brenton translation
And there went forth a mighty man out of the army of the Philistines, Goliath by name, out of Geth, his height was four cubits and a span.
1 Kings 17:4, LXXThe modern thread, and a warning
The show follows one more line, and it follows it carefully. Across cultures and continents, people who use certain psychedelic compounds report encounters with intelligent beings, and the reports resemble each other in ways that trouble the researchers collecting them. This program examines that testimony as evidence that the unseen realm described in Scripture is real, and never as an invitation. There is no chemical doorway that a Christian is called to walk through, and Scripture treats sorcery as a work of the flesh, not a research method.
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:37, KJVThat is why an old passage is current business. Jesus tied the end of the age to the days of Noah, and the days of Noah are described in Genesis 6. Listen with a Bible open, weigh the three readings, and hold fast what is good.
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Common questions
Who were the Nephilim?
Genesis 6 describes them as beings present when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, in the generations before the flood. The episodes examine the text, the ancient sources around it, and the main interpretive views.
Why does the show discuss DMT alongside Genesis 6?
Because modern encounter reports keep describing the same kinds of beings across unrelated testimonies, and the show examines that pattern through a biblical lens rather than a recreational one. The series is a warning, not an endorsement.
Did the early church read Genesis 6 as angels?
Broadly, yes. Writers of the first three centuries, including Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, and Irenaeus, took the sons of God as angels. The Sethite reading became dominant later, from the fourth century onward. Both readings have serious defenders, which is why this show presents the manuscripts and lets Scripture interpret Scripture.
What is the Book of Enoch, and should Christians read it?
An ancient Jewish writing that expands on Genesis 6 and was widely known in the first century; Jude 14 quotes a line found in it. It is not Scripture and this show never treats it as canon, but as ancient context it shows how early readers understood the passage.
Why does the Septuagint matter here?
It is the oldest translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, made by Jewish scholars centuries before Christ, and the New Testament writers frequently quote it. At Genesis 6 it preserves the earliest window into how the passage was understood, which is why this page sets it beside the King James.