In the Torah and several non-canonical Jewish and early Christian writings, nephilim (in Hebrew הנּפלים means the fallen ^*) are a people created by the crossbreeding of the "sons of God" (benei elohim, בני האלהים) and the "daughters of men". (See Genesis 6:1.) The word nephilim is loosely translated as giants or titans in some translations of the Bible, and is left as nephilim in others.

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (Genesis 6:1-4, English Standard Version)

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The traditional Jewish view, deriving from the Book of Enoch, is that the fathers of the nephilim, the "sons of God", were the Grigori (also called the Watchers); however, there is some controversy on this point (Targum Jona than) ^*. Some commentators have suggested that the nephilim were believed to have been fathered by members of a proto-Hebrew pantheon, and are a brief glimpse of early Hebrew religion, most of the details of which was later edited out from the Torah, and that this passage may have offered monotheistic Hebrews a way to fit semi-divine pagan heroes into their cosmogony. However, the idea that the Torah was somehow changed is not in keeping with traditional Hebrew practise, in which if even a single character is out of place in a parchment translation of the original Hebrew Torah, the entire parchment must be destroyed and replaced anew.

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stolzes_herz87 (Marcus Jacob) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:42:51 -0000
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♫ Fields Of The Nephilim - (Dead But Dreaming)
doomed (Doomed on SomaFM) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:35:43 -0000
♫ Fields Of The Nephilim - (Dead But Dreaming)
yeah it is. the story of the nephilim and caine?
nataliaelba (Natalia Elba Guardia) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:01:31 -0000
yeah it is. the story of the nephilim and caine?
@willzanders ooh - good one. What the heck were they thinking. Better yet, what the heck were Christian fans thinking?? #nephilim
zanders (Tony Zanders) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:48:07 -0000
@willzanders ooh - good one. What the heck were they thinking. Better yet, what the heck were Christian fans thinking?? #nephilim
@RulerofRunes Nephilim business you have nothing to do with...
mercenaryangel (Jace Wayland) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:27:17 -0000
@RulerofRunes Nephilim business you have nothing to do with...
Should be doing work but instead im reading Nephilim Lamedh for the 5th time in Desktop Publishing
codylong2 (Cody Long) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:28:47 -0000
Should be doing work but instead im reading Nephilim Lamedh for the 5th time in Desktop Publishing

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