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The Book of Enoch 6

2 min 8 verses
Echoes & Connections 3 connections
Literary Design

The Watchers' oath on Hermon forms the inciting incident; structured as descent, oath, corruption, and immediate heavenly response (ch 7-9).

Prophecy Connections

The Fall of the Angels (The Watchers)

The famous account of the Watchers' oath on Mount Hermon - the origin of evil in this tradition. Themes: The Watchers and Their Fall

1A🔗nd it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.

2🔗 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'

3🔗 And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.'

4🔗 And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.'

5🔗 Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.

6🔗 And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.

7🔗 And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel.

8🔗 These are their chiefs of tens.

Continue Reading The Book of Enoch 7 The Giants and Their Consumption

The fall of the Watchers sets up the corruption that leads to Enoch's intercession and the pronouncement of judgment in chapters 9-10.

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The famous account of the Watchers' oath on Mount Hermon - the origin of evil in this tradition.