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Chapter 6
1 And it came
to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born
unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
2 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and
said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of
men
3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them:
'I fear ye will not
4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of
a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath,
and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations
5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together
and bound themselves
6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended
in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount
Hermon, because they had sworn
7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names
of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel,
Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal,
8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael,
Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.
Chapter 7
1 And all the
others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself
one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and
they taught them charms
2and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.
And they
3 became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand
ells: Who consumed
4 all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the
giants turned against
5 them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts,
and reptiles, and
6 fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth
laid accusation against the lawless ones.
Chapter 8
1 And Azazel taught
men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known
to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets,
and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids,
and all kinds of costly stones, and all
2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed
fornication, and they
3 were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments,
and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught)
astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds,
Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the
course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to
heaven . . .
Chapter 9
1 And then Michael,
Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being
2 shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. And
they said one to another: 'The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice
of their cryingst up to the gates of heaven.
3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit,
saying, "Bring our cause
4 before the Most High."' And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord
of lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy
glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the
5 ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast
made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked
and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all
6 things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel hath
done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal
secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which
7 men were striving to learn: And Semjaza, to whom Thou hast given authority
to bear rule over his associates. And they have gone to the daughters of men
upon the earth, and have slept with the
9 women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins.
And the women have
10 borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and
unrighteousness. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying
and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended:
and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are
11 wrought on the earth. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass,
and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say
to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'
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