⁴ The ^[a](A)Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵ and did not spare ^(A)the ancient world, but protected ^(B)Noah, a ^[a]preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a ^(C)flood upon the world of the ungodly;