Read Genesis 6:1-8
This is certainly an obscure and strange text to fully comprehend. The larger story is that mankind's rebellion was growing to the point that every inclination in his heart was evil all the time. One man found the favor of God: Noah. Noah was not perfect, but it appears that he desired to please God more than simply pleasing himself. God chose him to reset the creation. Everything will go through a mass extinction with only a select family and animals to be retained to replenish the earth.
Nephilims? Who were these? The word is closely related to the Hebrew verb that we translate "to fall." We do not know for sure who these people of renown were. The detailed truth is locked in the past, however we do know that like all the evil that was accumulating in the heart of mankind they were part of the problem. The cleansing flood was God's plan for his purposes to reset His creation.
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