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Genesis 1-11 (incl. 6:1-4 Nephilim)
Genesis 6:4 says there were giants on earth when the sons of God took human wives.
Final redaction c.6th-5th c. BCE (Persian period); sources debated
Why would a text so careful about one God keep a story about sons of God at all?
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