In this mini text episode we read a passage from Genesis 6 that sheds light on issues of consensuality in sexual relationships.
It is known that in the histories of ancient peoples that they used to believe that sons of gods would covet human women, and they would come up with nonsense, that when a beautiful woman would find favor in the eyes of the sons of gods, they (the sons of gods) would have intercourse with them, and sire children from them, as it states in verse 4. The Torah relates that – according to the beliefs of that generation and their nonsense – they said that when the sons of gods saw the human women that they were beautiful, that these women would find favor in their eyes and they would take them as wives. Such a story served as a device to allow women to fornicate, betraying their husbands, with other men, spouting such nonsense that they were sons of gods who desired them, and who would then take them as wives.