Chapter 15 Section III.

1. And he answered and spoke to me with his word: "Hear, and fear not, Enoch, thou just man and scribe of justice, approach hither, and hear my words.

2. "And go, say to the watchers of heaven, who have sent thee, that thou shouldst petition for them:`Ye should petition for men, and not men for you.

3. 'Why have ye left the high, holy, and everlasting heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men, and taken wives unto yourselves, and acted like the children of earth, and begotten giants as sons?

4. 'While ye were spiritual, holy, having eternal life, ye defiled yourselves with women, and with all blood of flesh have begotten children, and have lusted after the blood of men, and have produced flesh and blood as they produce who die and are destroyed.

5. 'Therefore I have given them wives that they might impregnate them and children be born by them, as it is done on earth.

6. 'Ye were formerly spiritual, living an eternal life without death to all the generations of the world.

7. 'Therefore I have not made for you any wives, for spiritual beings have their home in heaven.'

8. "And now the giants, who have been begotten from body and flesh, will be called evil spirits one earth, and their dwelling-places will be upon the earth.

9. "Evil spirits proceed from their bodies; because they are created from above, their beginning and first basis being from the holy watchers, they will be evil spirits upon the earth, and will be called evil spirits.

10. "But the spirits of heaven have their dwelling-places in heaven, and the spirits of the earth, who were born on the earth, have their dwelling-places on earth.

11. "And the spirits of the giants, who cast themselves upon the clouds, will be destroyed and fall, and will battle and cause destruction on the earth, and do evil; they will take no kind of food, nor will they become thirsty, and they will be invisible.

12. "And these spirits will not [(?)] rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them. In the days of murder and destruction."

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