THE BOOK OF WATCHERS
- The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind.
Chapter 6
1 It happened after the children of men had increased in those days, that daughters were born unto them elegant and beautiful.
2 And when the angels, the sons of heaven saw them, they were inflamed with love of them, and said to each other, “Come, let us choose for ourselves wives from the daughters of men, and let us beget children.”
3 Then Samiaza their leader said to them, “I fear that you may perhaps be averse to the performance of this undertaking, and that I alone shall suffer for so great a crime.”
4 But they answered, and said unto him, “We all swear, and bind ourselves by mutual execrations, that we will not change our intention, but will perform our intended undertaking.”
5 Then they all swore one another, and bound themselves by mutual execrations.
6 Their whole number was two hundred, who descended in the days of Jared, upon the top of Mount Armon. Therefore they called that mountain Armon, because they had sworn upon it, and bound themselves by mutual execrations.
7 These are the names of their chiefs: the first Samiaza, who was their leader; the second Arstikapha; the third, Armen; the fourth, Akibeel; the fifth, Tamiel; the sixth Ramiel; the seventh, Danyal; the eight, Zakiel; the ninth, Barakel; the tenth, Azaziel; the eleventh, Armers; the twelfth, Bataryal; the thirteenth, Ananel; the fourteenth, Thausael; the fifteenth, Samiel; the sixteenth, Ertael; the seventeenth, Tumael; the eighteenth, Tarel; the nineteenth, Yomyael; the twentieth, Sariel.
Chapter 7
1 These, with all the others, in the thousand one hundred and seventieth year of the world, took to themselves wives, and they continued in their madness with them until the flood.
2 And there were born unto them three sorts, the first were great giants, and to the giants were born Nephilim, and to the Nephilim were born Elioud. And they increased in their power, and taught each other and their wives sorcery and incantations.
3 And the giants devoured all that the labour of men produced,
4 until it became impossible to feed them, and after that they began to eat the flesh of men.
Chapter 8
1 Moreover, Azaziel taught men to make swords, knives, shields breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, the workmanship of bracelets, ornaments, the use of paint, beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and of all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered.
2 Impiety increased, fornication multiplied, and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways.
3 Samiaza taught all the sorcerers and dividers of roots. Armers taught the solution of sorcery. Barakel taught the observers of the stars. Akibeel taught signs. Tamiel taught astronomy. Zakiel taught the inspection of the air. Armen taught the signs of the earth. Danyal taught the signs of the sun. And Sariel taught the motions of the moon.
4 And men began to be few on earth, and they who remained called to heaven concerning that evil, saying, “Let a remembrance of us be brought before the Most High.”