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THE BOOK OF ENOCH

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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   impreca-

­tions 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, Ezêgêêl, Barâqîjal, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zagîêl, Samsâpêêl,  Satarêl,  Tûrêl,  Jômjâêl,  Sariêl.

8. These are their chiefs of tens.

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).

    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 root, 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.

    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

    VIII. 1. And  Azâzêl 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 colour­ing tinctures.  2. And there arose much godlessness, and  they  committed  fornication,   and   they   were led astray,  and   became  corrupt  in  all their   ways  3. Shemjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Arrnârôs   the  resolving  of   enchantments,   Barâgîjâl,