OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 6:1

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When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

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Verse 1. Daughters. These had borne equal proportion with the males from the beginning; but here they are particularized, because they were the chief instruments in corrupting the descendants of Seth. Bible.—Even the sons of these libidinous people were so effeminate, as to deserve to be called women. Menochius.

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