Also remember that the angelic/human shenanigans started up again after the flood. IIRC this info is found in Numbers.
For a LOT of insight into this issue, read the Book of Enoch. It’s extra-biblical, but I think the book is afforded a lot of credibility by the fact that it’s quoted in the Bible, specifically in Jude.
The Book of Enoch goes into great detail on the angels who came to Earth and took women. Names of the leaders of the angel pack, their discussions, their eventual punishment, etc. Fascinating stuff.
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Yes, indeed.... I have read Enoch (in fact a couple of versions, too) and it’s very interesting. Now, from what I see strictly from the Bible, itself, that’s quite enough to explain the very *basic* idea of what happened. And that’s sufficient, actually.
To read Enoch does give something additional, but — I would have to be careful about attributing any degree of authority to it, other than the Scriptures, themselves. It’s interesting reading, nonetheless. I just won’t use it as authoritative, that’s all. (I believe that the inclusions of certain books of the Bible are also part of the “divine inspiration” of Scripture, to the extent that I won’t take any other outside source.)
But, those other places in the Bible do indicate further “episodes” of the same, at a later time.
Great points.