1 Enoch 6:6

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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.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.