Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
8. And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom,
And they shall all live and never again sin,
Either through ungodliness or through pride;
But they who are wise shall be humble.
9. And they shall not again transgress,
Nor shall they sin all the days of their life,
Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath,
But they shall complete the number of the days of their life.
And their lives shall be increased in peace,
And the years of their joy shall be multiplied,
In eternal gladness and peace,
All the days of their life.
VI-XI. _The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the
Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by
God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom_ (a Noah fragment).
VI. 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 and beget us children.’ 3. And Semjâzâ, who was their
leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this
deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ 4. And
they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind
ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this
thing.’ 5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual
imprecations upon it. 6. 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 and bound themselves by mutual
imprecations upon it. 7. And these are the names of their leaders:
Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl,
Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl,
Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, =Sariêl=. 8. These are their chiefs
of tens.
VII. 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 and
enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with
plants. 2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose
height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of
men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4. The giants turned
against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against
birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s
flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth laid accusation against
the lawless ones.
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