giants

⁴Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived, these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown.

¹And when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, ²the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to themselves wives from all whom they chose. ³And God said: “My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived, these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown. ⁵Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times, ⁶repented that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with a sorrow of heart,

³³And before the sons of Israel they disparaged the land, which they had inspected, saying: “The land, which we viewed, devours its inhabitants. The people, upon whom we gazed, were of lofty stature.

²⁸To where should we ascend? The messengers have terrified our heart by saying: “The multitude is very great, and taller than us. And the cities are great, and the walls extend even to the sky. We have seen the sons of the Anakim there.” ’

¹¹For only Og, the king of Bashan, was left behind out of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is on display, (it is in Rabbah, among the sons of Ammon) being nine cubits in length, and four in width, according to the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.

¹Now the Philistines, gathering their troops for battle, assembled at Socoh of Judah. And they made camp between Socoh and Azekah, within the borders of Dammim. ²But Saul and the sons of Israel, having gathered together, went to the Valley of Terebinth. And they positioned the army so as to fight against the Philistines. ³And the Philistines were standing on a mountain on the one side, and Israel was standing on a mountain on the other side. And there was a valley between them. ⁴And there went out from the camp of the Philistines, a man of illegitimate birth, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a palm. ⁵And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed with a breastplate of scales. Moreover, the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass. ⁶And he had plates of brass on his lower legs, and a small shield of brass was covering his shoulders.

¹And when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, ²the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to themselves wives from all whom they chose. ³And God said: “My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived, these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown.

⁶And truly, the Angels, who did not keep to their first place, but instead abandoned their own domiciles, he has reserved with perpetual chains under darkness, unto the great day of judgment.

¹⁸Also, a second war occurred in Gob against the Philistines. Then Sibbecai from Hushah struck down Saph, from the stock of Arapha, of the ancestry of the giants.

²¹They are a people, great and numerous, and of lofty stature, like the Anakim, whom the Lord wiped away before their face. And he caused them to live there in place of them,

²¹In that time, Joshua went and put to death the Anakim from the mountains, from Hebron and Debir and Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah and Israel. And he destroyed their cities.

¹¹They were considered to be like giants, and they were like the sons of the Anakim. And, indeed, the Moabites call them: the Emim.

¹⁰The Emim were the first of its inhabitants, a people great and strong, and of such great height, like the race of the Anakim.

⁷I will not fear the thousands of people surrounding me. Rise up, Lord. Save me, my God.

²⁰It was reputed to be a land of giants. And giants lived there in times past, those whom the Ammonites call the Zamzummim.