Overview of Genesis 6

Says Genesis 6 opens as men multiply and daughters are born (6:1). “The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose” (6:2, BSB). The Lord says, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years” (6:3, BSB). “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown” (6:4, BSB). The Lord sees man's wickedness, regrets that He has made man, and will blot man out (6:5–7). “Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the Lord” (6:8, BSB). 6:9 opens the account of Noah, who walked with God. God tells him of the flood, commands an ark, and will establish His covenant with him. Noah does all that God commands (6:22). Swete's 6:1 holds English 5:32 and English 6:1. See the Hebrew, Greek and textual notes.

Implies Noah is a real person, as the New Testament treats him. That is set out in the note on persons and history.

Uncertain Who the sons of God and the Nephilim are, what the hundred and twenty years measure, how the wording of regret is to be read, how far the flood reached, and what צֹהַר is, are treated in the Hebrew, Greek and historical notes. No lean is taken.