The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En* I iii FIRST COPY 151
[« ^And they answered], all of them, and said to him: Xet us [all] swear
[an oath and all bind one another that we shall not] any of us turn aside from
this counsel [until we do this deed.' sThen] they all [swore] together and
bound [one another] by imprecations. [^And they were all of these two
hundred who came down] in the days of Jared on [the summit of Mount]
Hermon; [and they called the mount Hermon] because they swore and bound
[one another] by imprecations upon it. ^And these are [the names of their
leaders]: Semihazah who [was their chief; 'Ar't*qo]ph, the second to him;
Ramt'el, [third] to him; Kokab'el, [fourth to him; -'el], fifth to him; Ra^m'el,
[sixth to him]; Dani'el, seventh [to him; Zeqi'el], eighth to him; Baraq'el,
ninth [to him]; *Asa*el, tenth [to him; Hermoni], eleventh to him; Matar'el,
twelfth [to him]; *Anan'el, thirteenth [to him]; S^taw'el, fourteenth to him;
Samsi'el, fifteenth to him; Sahri'el, sixteenth to him; Tummi'el, seventeenth
[to him]; Turi'el, eighteenth to him; Yomi'el, nineteenth to him; [Y^haddi'el,
twentieth to him]. ^These are the chiefs of the chiefs of tens. ^ ^Those
(two hundred) and their leaders [all took for themselves] wives from all that
they chose; and [they began to go in to them, and to defile themselves with
them] and (they began) to teach them sorcery and [spell-binding, and the
cutting the roots; and they showed them herbs]. ^And they became pregnant
by them and bare [giants three thousand cubits high who] were born (and
multiplied) on the earth [according to the kind of their childhood, and
growing up according to the kind of their adolescence, ^and they were
devouring] the labour of all the sons of men and [men] were unable [to supply
them. ^But the giants] conspired to slay men, and [to devour them. sAnd they
began to sin and to ...] against all birds and beasts of the earth, [and reptiles
which creep upon the earth and (creatures) in the waters], and in the heaven,
and the fish of the sea, and to devour the flesh [of one another, and they were
drinking blood. ^Then the earth made the accusation against] the wicked,
[concerning everything which was done upon it.
81'Asa'el taught men] to [make . . .]
Texts to be compared: En^ i ii (En. 5: 9-6: 4 and 6: 7-8: i), En^ i ii (En. 6: 7), C, S
(En. 6: 1-7: 2 and 8: i), Syriac (En. 6: 1-7), E.
LI. 1-2 (En. 6: 4). naXI [13571] S, Eg» ^; nOKI om. C, E, Syriac.
L. 2. ni7D Diri2 En*, and probably En^: 'all of us' om. aliu Only C, and E in part, retain
the phrase TToirjooiiev ro Trpdyfia rovro equivalent to that of En^, and probably of En*, but in C
it is preceded by the gloss rcXeacofiev avTqv Kai which is a classicizing stylistic variant of it;
Syncellus improves it to diroTeXdawfiev avrrjv and omits the original phrase.
LI. 3-5 (En. 6: 6). This verse is omitted in C by homoeoteleuton.