It is in this passage that we find a possible link to the Karahan Tepe six-fingered carvings that I think many fringe researchers in alternative archaeology, ancient alien theory, or Biblical literalism might jump on. Some in those groups have previously suggested that these Biblical ‘giants’ – and via this passage, people with six-fingers – might have been members of a lost civilisation, or a hybrid alien species, or the offspring of angelic beings, respectively. This comes from a couple of passages in the Old Testament referring to a race of giants that lived before (and after) the great flood:
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days — and also afterward — when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown. (Genesis 6:4)
So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are of great size. There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim); and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” (Numbers 13:32-33)