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Who were the Nephilim? (Data Over Dogma)

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portion of a Data Over Dogma episode in which Dan Beecher and I read Genesis 6:1-4: what it actually says about the sons of God and the daughters of humans, why ‘Nephilim’ doesn’t mean giants, how the Nephilim turn up again after the flood in Numbers 13, why the passage looks like a later insertion, and who the sons of God originally were.

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0:00 Genesis 6: the sons of God and the daughters of humans

1:59 Verse 4 and the Nephilim

4:00 Numbers 13 and the spies

4:49 Nephilim doesn’t mean giants

6:56 Nephilim after the flood?

9:02 A later insertion?

11:08 Who are the sons of God?

12:19 El, Elyon and the divine council

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