Chiasm
Genesis 6:1–4
Genesis 6:1–42 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
- B 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
- C 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
- B' 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
- B 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
- A' 4 and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.