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1 Enoch 8

Outside the Protestant canon. Scripture for: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo. How each church treats it →

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1And 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.[chemical element, Sb, less toxic than arsenic, in large doses causes death within days, use for dye, colouring eyelids. Present use: skin conditioner in ruminants, hardening of lead, preventing materials from burning, in electronics manufacturing films, for the production of artificial polyester fibres and cores, for the removal of microscopic bubbles from glass,...] 2And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. 3Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Êzêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, 〈Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun〉, and Sariêl the course of the moon. 4And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .

1En-Charles: 1 Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles (APOT 1913) (1913) · Public Domain · The Book of Enoch, tr. R. H. Charles, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1913); public domain. Digital text: CrossWire SWORD module 'Enoch' v2.0.

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