The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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[«9 ...] all the days [of your life].«^And it came to pass when [the children
of men multiplied in those days, there were born to them daughters], beautiful
and [fair. ^And the Watchers, sons of heaven, saw them and desired them];
and they said, [one to another: 'Let us go and choose for ourselves wives from
the daughters of men and beget for ourselves children.' ^But Semihaza who
was their chief said to them: 'I fear that you will not wish to do this deed;
and I alone shall be guilty of a great sin.' ^^And they all answered] and said
[to him]: *Let us [all] swear [an oath, and all bind one another by it, that we
shall not any of us turn aside from] this counsel, [until] we do [this deed s...
7...; 'Anan'el, thirteenth to him; S*taw*el, fourteen]th to him; [Samsi'el],
fifteenth [to him; Sahri'el, sixteenth to him]; Tummi'el seventeenth [to
him]; Turi'el, [eighteenth to him; Yom'el, nineteen]th to him; Y^haddi'el,
twentieth [to him]. ^These are the chiefs of tens.
[7 ^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 spellbinding
[and the cutting of roots; and to show them plants. ^And they
became pregnant by them and bore 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 children 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 against all birds and beasts of the
earth], and reptiles [which creep upon the face of the earth, and (creatures)
in the waters and in the heaven, and the fish of the sea, and to devour the
flesh of another; and they were] drinking blood. [^Then the earth made the
accusation against the wicked concerning everything] which was done upon it.
8 I'Asa'el taught [men to] make swords of iron and breastplates of brass,
[and he showed] them (metals) which are dug out, [and how] they should