1 Enoch 69:11

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For men were created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have taken hold of them, but through this their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power †it is consuming me†.Perhaps read 'they are being consumed'.Man was originally righteous and immortal. Cf. Wisdom, i. 13, 14; ii. 23, 24. Cf Talmud, Weber, Jüd. Theol. 215, 216, 222, 248. He lost his uprightness and immortality through the devil's envy, Wisdom ii. 24; the evil knowledge introduced by the Satans or angels, 1 En. lxix. 11; his own evil act, 1 En. xcviii. 4.