The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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[. . .] 3and your power [...]• ^Then 'Ohyah [said] to Hahya[h, his brother
. . .]. Then, he (sc. God?) punished, not %s, but 'Azazel, and has made him
[. . ., the sons] of the Watchers, ^the giants, and all [their] beloved ones will
not be spared [...]... he has imprisoned us and you he has subdued.
L. 5. On the sons of Semihazah see immediately above, note to fr. 4, line 3.
LI. 5 and 7. X1^, instead of X^ (7 ii 7), is a little surprising. However, it probably does not
refer to the emphatic particle /w(').
L. 6. 'Az^el appears here in his expiatory role (Lev. 16: 8,10, 26), for he seems to be punished
for the sins of the giants. He was evidently not a simple he-goat, but a giant who combined
goat-like characteristics with those of man. We have seen (p. 306) that Mahawai had bird-like
characteristics. 'Ohyah and Hahyah too could have been bird-men, if an expression of the
Persian Kawan, *in their nest(?)', is correctly translated by Henning (p. 61, fr. k, page i). The
giant HdbaMy if his name is composite, h6bab'{')tsy may have united in his person human
characteristics with those of the monster Hu{tn)baby the guardian of the Forest of Cedars and
the adversary of Gilgamesh. The name of this last was borne by another giant, 0*'01^3 in
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