When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the 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.
(Genesis 6:1-4 ESV)
Jim's Commentary:
Humanity expands into the earth; the normative default for the various communities being small villages engaged in free enterprise economics.
As the covenant people (children of Seth, or "Sons of God") intermarry with unbelievers ("children of men"), there arise warlords or proto-statists called Nephilim who are not afraid to use coercion (murder) to achieve their ends. Which ends usually include some sort of economic exploitation or control of others distorting or destroying the free enterprise market.
With the moral fabric of these small villages destroyed by the betrayal of the Sethites, and with the rapid growth of the cancer of statism, in short order, nearly everyone had forgotten God except Noah.
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