Now, also, notice this other alternative translation (the WEB):
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The Nephilim† were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
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It ascribes the "mighty" classification to the giants, not to the children of sons of God with daughters of men, which does make a lot of sense. However, the comment about the sons of God becomes out of place, as just a mere reference of something that happened in the past with no expanding of what was that about.
Anyways, Moses comments on anomalies in the human race as if the reader knows already something about it (giants? Isralites knew them by the time Moses wrote this; ancient mighty men seen as gods? also a known thing)