openairboy
Puritan Board Freshman
In Gen. 6 we read, "The Nephilim were on teh earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown."
I believe Moses is the author of the Pentateuch, at least its final editor, and he says, "The Nephilim were on the earh in those days [the days described in 1-3], and ALSO AFTERWARD..." What are the "also afterward"? Were they not destroyed in the flood?
If they were, who are the Nephilim in Numbers 13? It reads, "And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who came from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
We may be able to run with "Nephilim" simply being "giants", but there seems a particular reason Moses mentions them in Gen. 6 and Nu. 13 and why he mentions "they came from the Nephilim".
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
openairboy
I believe Moses is the author of the Pentateuch, at least its final editor, and he says, "The Nephilim were on the earh in those days [the days described in 1-3], and ALSO AFTERWARD..." What are the "also afterward"? Were they not destroyed in the flood?
If they were, who are the Nephilim in Numbers 13? It reads, "And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who came from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
We may be able to run with "Nephilim" simply being "giants", but there seems a particular reason Moses mentions them in Gen. 6 and Nu. 13 and why he mentions "they came from the Nephilim".
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
openairboy