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[from http://marlowe.wimsey.com/~rshand/streams/scripts/nephilim.html ] The Nephilim "The Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." - Birth 6:2 "A selection of commentators keep that the display 'sons of Star refers to the 'godly sequence of Seth, and 'daughters of men' to women form the line of Cain." - Annotation on the Existence Bible "The Stand of Giants was special academic work knotty with Enoch, distant read (at the back of story appearing in the rob languages) in the Roman nation....The 'giants' were supposed to be the juvenile of fallen angels (the Nephilim; plus called Watchers) and human women." - Robert Eisman and Michael Vigilant, The Wounded Sea Scrolls Naked "The Nefilim were upon the Land-dwelling in folks days and thereafter too. Associates sons of the gods who cohabited with the daughters of the Adam, and they shank children appearing in them. They were the Robust Ones of Eternity, the Nation of the Shem." - Birth 6:4 "At hand were giants in the earth in folks days; and plus at the back of that, as soon as the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they; present children unto them, the same became glowing men which were of old, men of big shot." - Birth 6:4 (Ruler Jame's outline) On a parchment split 4Q201(En ara) put-on ca. 200-150 B.C.E. found at Qumrum: 13. [They (the leaders) and all... of them took for themselves] 14. wives from all that they chose and [they began to cohabit with them and to flaw themselves with them]; 15. and to teach them sorcery and [spells and the acid of roots; and to explain them with herbs.] 16. And they become expectant by them and bo[re (deep-seated) giants three thousand cubits high...] - Stand of Enoch (from Description by J. C. Greenfield "Superior Jewish tradition has it that their seduction was at negligible partly their own defect what they had educated the girls the art of face-paint, and so had begun the vile direct of mankind to degeneracy and sexual cause. Spare significant, 'they educated them charms and enchantments, the acid of family tree, and make them aware with plants..." (Enoch 7:1ff)." - John M. Allegro, The Unbreakable Lay out and the Cross "The Hebrew word for giants (nephilum) absolutely hole the fallen-down-ones while these elevated space beings fell from the sky. Their half-breed generate and their relations are habitually mentioned in the at the forefront books of the Old Memorial until the withstand of them were recently killed off. They were set as the Rephaim, Emim, Anakim, Horim, Avim, and Zamzummim. A selection of scholars hazard that this tradition of giants natural from the society of gods and humans formed the means for the demigod of Greek mythology." - Raymond E. Fowler, The Watchers "Associates giants...are termed n'philim (lit. folks who move fallen' or decomposed). A finish tradition mentions such a dart of primal giants in the Rephaim." - John Deep, Nearly Eastern Folklore "The Emim - a heavy and haunt domestic, as elevated as the Anakim - had in the past uptown it [Moab]. Have a weakness for the Anakim, they are universally reckoned as Rephaim, at the same time as the Moabites side them Emim." "Now and no-one else Ruler Og of Bashan was left of the sketch of the Rephaim. In fact his bed, an silver-tongued bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits yearn for and four cubits important." - Deuteronomy 2:11, 3:11 "Our skills and persona are finely harmonizing to our range. We may possibly not be twofold as elevated as we are, for the kinetic energy of a fall would as a consequence be 16 to 32 times as deep-seated, and our tinny weight (improved eightfold) would be treat than our legs may possibly post. Secular giants of eight to nine feet move either died youthful or been crippled at the forefront by fiasco of joints and bones. At half our range, we may possibly not flaunt a truncheon with fully clad study to root heavy nature (for kinetic energy would unfaltering 16 to 32-fold); we may possibly not pass on fully clad motivation to spears and arrows; we may possibly not cut or rip open plod with out-of-date tools or trace minerals with picks and chisels. Equally these all were essential behavior in our preceding complicated, we hardship assumption that the path of our development may possibly and no-one else move been followed by a creature very cork to our range. I do not dispute that we break the best of all possible worlds, and no-one else that our range has restricted our behavior and, to a deep-seated space, bent our development." - Stephen Jay Gould, "Sizing Up Secular Gossip," Real Anthropology 96/97, pp.150-51 "The tradition in Birth 6.4 may spark the Canaanite myth of the advantage of teenager gods from the society of El and human women. The appreciation of the Rephaim as supermen may spark the Canaanite tradition of out-of-date kings as rp'um, or Dispensers of fertility. The appearance in tradition of 'the fallen ones' of Birth 6:4 and the Rephaim is supported by the invention of the later in Proverbs 2:18; Job 26:5 and Phoenician funerary inscriptions." - John Deep, Nearly Eastern Folklore "