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Book of Enoch 16

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From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement—thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated."

2And now as to the watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, say to them:

3“You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth."

4Say to them therefore: “You have no peace.”’

5And concerning the mountain on which they swore and bound themselves by mutual imprecations: cold and snow and hoar-frost and dew shall not depart from it, and nothing shall come down upon it save it be accursed, until the day of the great judgement; then it shall be burned and brought low, and melted like wax before the fire, and all its works shall be consumed by fire.

6(And now I say unto you, children of men, there is great wrath against you and against your sons, and this wrath shall not cease from you until the time of the slaughter of your sons; and your beloved shall perish, and your honoured ones shall die from off the whole earth; for all the days of their life from this time forth shall not be more than a hundred and twenty years; and think not that ye shall live longer: there is no way of escape for them, because of the wrath with which the King of all the ages is angered against you. Think not that ye shall escape these judgements.)

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About Book of Enoch

The most influential apocryphal book there is: the fall of the Watcher angels, the giants, Enoch's journey through the heavens and the final judgement. Quoted in the New Testament by the letter of Jude and held canonical by the Ethiopian Church. English text: The Book of Enoch (London: SPCK), R. H. Charles, 1917 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Book of Enoch (London: SPCK), R. H. Charles (1917) · public domain