1 Enoch 6

VI-XI. The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralization 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).

1And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.*VI-XI. These chapters are abruptly introduced. See introduction, vi. 3-8, viii. 1-3, ix. 7, x. 11 belong to a Semjâzâ cycle of myths. As in lxix. 2 he is chief and Azâzêl only tenth in command. Elsewhere in Enoch Azâzêl is chief and Semjâzâ is not mentioned. These myths, however, were already confused in their present form when lxxxviii-lxxxix. I were written. Again, x. 1-3 belongs to an Apocalypse of Noah, many fragments of which occur in Enoch. Syncellus gives an additional fragment of it after x. 3. Indeed, vi-xi is all Noachic; cf. Jub. vii. 21-25, and my edition of Jubilees lxxi seqq., 264. xii-xvi, however, belong to the Book of Enoch. 2And 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.’*Cf. xiii. 8, xiv. 3, .xxxix. 1. See xv. 1-7. Cf ‘sons of the holy angels’ lxxi. 1, and note. The entire myth of the angels and the daughters of men in Enoch arises from Gen. vi. 1-4: ‘the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men.’ This refers not to alliances between Sethites and Cainites, but to an early Persian (?) myth to the effect that before Zoroaster's coming demons had corrupted the earth and allied themselves with women (Bousset, Rel. d. Jud. 382, 560). The original LXX rendering for ‘sons of God’ was γγελοι τοῦ Θεοῦ, as in Philo, de Gigantibus, Justin Martyr, Apol. ii. 5, Eusebius, Augustine, and Ambrose. On the myths see Griinbaum in ZDMG xxxi. 225 ff., and for statements dependent on this account in Enoch, or harmonizing with it, cf. Jub. iv. 15, v. 1 seqq.; Test. Reub. v. 6, 7, Test. Naph. iii. 5, 2 En. vii, xviii, Jude 6, 2 Pet. ii. 4; Joseph, Ant. i. 3. 1; Philo, de Gigantibus; Justin Martyr, Apol. i. 5; Ps. Clement, Hom. viii. 13; Clem. Alex. Strom. v. 1. 10; Tert. de Virg. Veland. vii; Adv. Marcion. v. 18; De Idol. ix; Lact. Instit. ii. 15; Commodian, Instruct. i. 3. In the De Civ. Dei xv. 23 Augustine combats this view and denies the inspiration of Enoch which Tertullian had upheld. 3And 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.’ 4And 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.’ 5Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 6And 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.*see cvi. 13. So the Greek; the Ethiopic is corrupt. We thus get two paronomasiae in the Hebrew: Jared, and ירר ‘descend’, and Hermon and חרס ‘a curse’. For the tradition cf. Orig. Comment. in Ioann. tom. viii, p. 132, ed. Huet.; Epiphanius, Adv. Haer. i. 4, ed. Petav., tom. i, p. 4; Hilary, Comm. in Ps. cxxxii. 3. The reasons for the angels’ descent in the Book of Jubilees differ from those given in this chapter. There in iv and v it is said that the Watchers were sent to earth by God ‘to instruct the children of men to do judgement and uprightness', and that when so doing they began to lust after the daughters of men. Cf. Test. Reub. v. 6. In 1 Enoch the angels are said to have descended because of their lust, and the same reason is given in Jalkut Shim. Beresh. 44. See Weber, Jüd. Theologie, 253. The Book of Jubilees has an implicit polemic against this and other statements of Enoch. In later tradition Azâzêl could not return to heaven because he had outstayed the seven days' limit assigned to angelic visitants to earth. 7And these are the names of their leaders: Samîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl.*‘star of God’.*‘perfection of God’.*‘lightning of God’.*‘rock of God’.*‘day of God’.*This list is incomplete, as a name has been lost after Tûrêl. 8These are their chiefs of tens.