There are some good arguments in favor of it being Moses. For one thing, he is the one male who seems to be of accountable age, so it would make sense that the Lord would execute judgment on him rather than on either of his sons. Also, the fact that Zipporah circumcised her son would make sense if Moses were somehow incapacitated during the ordeal. Still, the text never actually identifies this person as Moses, using the pronoun “him” instead.
“The impression given by the events in vv.1-4 is that they are an interlude, a sort of calm before the storm. For a brief moment we see a glimpse of humankind in the midst of their everyday affairs.”
With no perfect and unassailable view of the identities of the sons of God, daughters of men, and nephilim available to us, we must make do with the least-bad one.
Two of the most popular views of the sons of God from Genesis 6 are held with very little in the way of direct contextual evidence.
Often it’s helpful to get a fresh perspective. That was the reason my family and I chose to read the Bible in a different translation… Read More »About the Sixth Hour
