Genesis 6:1
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And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

A.

1556. B.C.

2448. to multiply.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Context
Corruption on the Earth
1And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,2The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.…
Cross References
Genesis 5:32
And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

Lexicon
Now
וַֽיְהִי֙ (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

when
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

men
הָֽאָדָ֔ם (hā·’ā·ḏām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being

began
הֵחֵ֣ל (hê·ḥêl)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

to multiply
לָרֹ֖ב (lā·rōḇ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7231: To cast together, increase, in number, to multiply by the myriad

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the face
פְּנֵ֣י (pə·nê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

of the earth
הָֽאֲדָמָ֑ה (hā·’ă·ḏā·māh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 127: Ground, land

and daughters
וּבָנ֖וֹת (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

were born
יֻלְּד֥וּ (yul·lə·ḏū)
Verb - QalPass - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

to them,
לָהֶֽם׃ (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
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