Genesis 6:1

men Heb. ha-adam, i.e. "the man." It is not the proper name "Adam"; nor is it "the man" as an individual as in Genesis 3:24; Genesis 4:1: but "the man" collectively, in the sense of "the human race," LXX οἱ ἄνθρωποι. This use of the word is different from anything in the Paradise Narrative: see Genesis 5:1.

began to multiply No account is taken of (a) the description of the growth of the population, and of (b) the genealogies of Cainites and Sethites, which have occupied chaps. Genesis 4:17-25; Genesis 4:5.