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The patriarch's blessing on the elect of the last days; the coming of the Holy One with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute judgment upon all flesh." }, { "num": 2, "slug": "05-chapter-ii", "title": "Chapter II — Cosmic Order as Witness", "words": 228, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/05-chapter-ii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/05-chapter-ii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The heavenly luminaries keep their courses", "blurb": "Heavenly and earthly orders are testimony: stars do not transgress; seasons follow; the sea and rivers complete their work — yet humans alone alter the law of the Most High." }, { "num": 3, "slug": "06-chapter-v", "title": "Chapter V — Curse on the Hardened", "words": 402, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/06-chapter-v/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/06-chapter-v.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Heaven and earth keep order; ye have not", "blurb": "The fixed faithfulness of nature contrasted with the perfidy of those who have not done the commandments. Curse on the impenitent; promise of wisdom and inheritance to the elect." }, { "num": 4, "slug": "07-chapter-vi", "title": "Chapter VI — Descent of the Watchers", "words": 254, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/07-chapter-vi/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/07-chapter-vi.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Semjâzâ and the two hundred bind themselves by oath on Mount Hermon", "blurb": "The angels of heaven, sons of God, see the daughters of men and lust. Semjâzâ leads two hundred who bind themselves by mutual oath on the summit of Mount Hermon to descend and take wives." }, { "num": 5, "slug": "08-chapter-vii", "title": "Chapter VII — The Giants and the Corruption of Earth", "words": 131, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/08-chapter-vii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/08-chapter-vii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The Watchers' offspring devour the children of men", "blurb": "The Watchers' wives bear giants three thousand ells tall who consume the produce of men, then turn against men and devour them; earth is filled with bloodshed and lawlessness." }, { "num": 6, "slug": "09-chapter-viii", "title": "Chapter VIII — The Teaching of Forbidden Arts", "words": 142, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/09-chapter-viii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/09-chapter-viii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Azâzêl teaches metallurgy and ornamentation", "blurb": "Azâzêl teaches the making of weapons and the arts of seduction; Semjâzâ teaches enchantments; others teach astrology, dividing the months and the courses of the moon. Men cry out from the earth to heaven." }, { "num": 7, "slug": "10-chapter-ix", "title": "Chapter IX — Intercession of the Four Archangels", "words": 345, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/10-chapter-ix/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/10-chapter-ix.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Michael, Uriel, Raphael, Gabriel cry to the Most High", "blurb": "The four archangels bring before the Most High the lamentation of the souls of the perished. They name the corruption: the Watchers' descent, the teaching of forbidden arts, the blood that cries from the earth." }, { "num": 8, "slug": "11-chapter-x", "title": "Chapter X — Judgment Pronounced", "words": 830, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/11-chapter-x/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/11-chapter-x.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Bind Azâzêl in the desert of Dûdâʼêl", "blurb": "The Most High commissions the archangels. Uriel warns Noah of the coming flood; Raphael binds Azâzêl hand and foot in darkness beneath the rocks of Dûdâʼêl; Gabriel destroys the giants; Michael binds Semjâzâ and his companions seventy generations in the valleys of earth." }, { "num": 9, "slug": "12-chapter-xii", "title": "Chapter XII — Enoch's Commission", "words": 212, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/12-chapter-xii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/12-chapter-xii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Enoch hidden with the holy ones — sent to the Watchers", "blurb": "Enoch, hidden with the Watchers and the holy ones, is commissioned by the heavenly Watchers to go to the fallen Watchers and declare that they shall have no peace; their seventy-generation imprisonment is decreed." }, { "num": 10, "slug": "13-chapter-xiii", "title": "Chapter XIII — Enoch's Mission to Azâzêl", "words": 313, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/13-chapter-xiii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/13-chapter-xiii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Petition refused; the fallen plead for mercy", "blurb": "Enoch announces sentence on Azâzêl; the Watchers ask Enoch to draw up a petition for forgiveness and to read it before the Lord of Heaven. Enoch goes to the waters of Dan." }, { "num": 11, "slug": "14-chapter-xiv", "title": "Chapter XIV — Enoch's Vision of the Heavenly Throne", "words": 756, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/14-chapter-xiv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/14-chapter-xiv.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The crystal house and the flame within", "blurb": "Carried up by winds, Enoch sees a house of crystal floored with flames; within, a second house, greater than the first, all of crystal and flames of fire; and within, the throne, and upon it the Great Glory — none of the angels can enter." }, { "num": 12, "slug": "15-chapter-xv", "title": "Chapter XV — Why the Watchers Sinned", "words": 379, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/15-chapter-xv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/15-chapter-xv.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Spirits ought not to mingle with flesh", "blurb": "The Lord addresses Enoch with the answer to the Watchers' petition: they were created spiritual and immortal; in begetting children of flesh they reversed the order — and from the dead bodies of the giants come the evil spirits that afflict the earth." }, { "num": 13, "slug": "16-chapter-xvi", "title": "Chapter XVI — Evil Spirits From the Giants", "words": 147, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/16-chapter-xvi/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/16-chapter-xvi.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Spirits without bodies, born of slaughter", "blurb": "When the giants die their spirits go forth from their bodies — but, having been born on earth, they remain on earth: evil spirits oppressing, destroying, attacking, rising up against the children of men until the day of consummation." }, { "num": 14, "slug": "17-chapter-xvii", "title": "Chapter XVII — Enoch's First Tour: the Storehouses", "words": 224, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/17-chapter-xvii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/17-chapter-xvii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Mountains of darkness; rivers of fire", "blurb": "Enoch is led to a place where he beholds mountains of darkness, the storehouses of all the winds, the foundations of the earth, the cornerstone of the earth, the four winds that bear the firmament, and the river of fire that flows into the great sea of the west." }, { "num": 15, "slug": "18-chapter-xviii", "title": "Chapter XVIII — The Seven Stars and the Place of Judgment", "words": 425, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/18-chapter-xviii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/18-chapter-xviii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The fallen stars bound in fire", "blurb": "Enoch beholds the seven mountains of precious stones, the cornerstone of the earth, and at the end of heaven and earth the prison-place of the seven stars that transgressed the commandment — bound in fire awaiting ten thousand years until consummation." }, { "num": 16, "slug": "19-chapter-xix", "title": "Chapter XIX — The Spirits of the Watchers", "words": 104, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/19-chapter-xix/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/19-chapter-xix.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Uriel explains the place of mingling", "blurb": "Uriel shows Enoch where the spirits of the angels who took wives stand; how their wives became sirens; and how their judgment is appointed. Enoch, alone among men, has seen what no one else has seen." }, { "num": 17, "slug": "20-chapter-xx", "title": "Chapter XX — The Seven Holy Angels", "words": 142, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/20-chapter-xx/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/20-chapter-xx.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Sariel, Gabriel, Remiel", "blurb": "The seven holy angels who watch are named with their offices: Uriel over the world and Tartarus; Raphael over the spirits of men; Raguel over the luminaries; Michael over the best of the people; Sariel over those who sin in spirit; Gabriel over Paradise and the cherubim; Remiel over those who rise." }, { "num": 18, "slug": "21-chapter-xxi", "title": "Chapter XXI — The Prison of the Fallen Stars", "words": 302, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/21-chapter-xxi/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/21-chapter-xxi.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "A waste and horrible place beyond the firmament", "blurb": "Enoch beholds the prison of the stars and the prison of the fallen Watchers — a fearful place at the end of heaven, without firmament above or earth beneath, where the disobedient angels are confined forever." }, { "num": 19, "slug": "22-chapter-xxii", "title": "Chapter XXII — The Four Hollows of the Dead", "words": 824, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/22-chapter-xxii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/22-chapter-xxii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Sheol divided: the righteous, the sinners, the slain, the rebellious", "blurb": "On the western mountain Enoch sees four hollow places where the spirits of the dead are gathered: one for the righteous (with a bright spring); one for sinners who escaped earthly judgment; one for the slain (the souls of the murdered cry out); one for the rebellious who shall not rise." }, { "num": 20, "slug": "23-chapter-xxiii", "title": "Chapter XXIII — The Fire of the Luminaries", "words": 106, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/23-chapter-xxiii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/23-chapter-xxiii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Fire that runs after the luminaries", "blurb": "Toward the west of the ends of the earth Enoch sees a fire that runs continuously and never rests, pursuing the heavenly luminaries through their courses." }, { "num": 21, "slug": "24-chapter-xxiv", "title": "Chapter XXIV — The Seven Mountains and the Tree of Life", "words": 237, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/24-chapter-xxiv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/24-chapter-xxiv.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The fragrant tree reserved for the righteous", "blurb": "Enoch comes to seven mountains of precious stones; on the seventh, the tree of life — fragrant beyond all fragrance — reserved for the righteous and holy at the great judgment, when its fruit shall be given to the elect." }, { "num": 22, "slug": "25-chapter-xxv", "title": "Chapter XXV — The Tree's Promise", "words": 250, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/25-chapter-xxv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/25-chapter-xxv.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Long life and joy for the elect", "blurb": "Michael explains: the high mountain whose summit resembles the throne is where the Great Holy One, the Lord of Glory, will sit at the visitation. The fruit of the tree of life is given to the elect; long life on earth, joy without sorrow, no pain." }, { "num": 23, "slug": "26-chapter-xxvi", "title": "Chapter XXVI — The Center of the Earth", "words": 179, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/26-chapter-xxvi/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/26-chapter-xxvi.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The blessed land — Jerusalem and the valley of Hinnom", "blurb": "Enoch travels to the center of the earth where he sees a blessed land with trees flourishing; a deep valley with hard rocks; another holy mountain; and below it the accursed valley — Gehenna." }, { "num": 24, "slug": "27-chapter-xxvii", "title": "Chapter XXVII — The Accursed Valley", "words": 492, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/27-chapter-xxvii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/27-chapter-xxvii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Gehenna prepared for those who utter evil", "blurb": "Uriel reveals: the accursed valley is for those who utter unseemly language against the Lord. Here in the last days they shall be gathered before the righteous as a spectacle of judgment." }, { "num": 25, "slug": "28-chapter-xxxii", "title": "Chapter XXXII — The Garden of Righteousness", "words": 297, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/28-chapter-xxxii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/28-chapter-xxxii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Where the tree of wisdom grows", "blurb": "In the east of the earth Enoch finds the garden of righteousness with the tree of wisdom — the tree whose fruit the holy ones eat to learn great wisdom. This is the tree from which Adam and Eve ate." }, { "num": 26, "slug": "29-chapter-xxxiii", "title": "Chapter XXXIII", "words": 161, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/29-chapter-xxxiii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/29-chapter-xxxiii.json", "project_translation": false }, { "num": 27, "slug": "30-chapter-xxxiv", "title": "Chapter XXXIV", "words": 158, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/30-chapter-xxxiv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/30-chapter-xxxiv.json", "project_translation": false }, { "num": 28, "slug": "31-chapter-xxxvi", "title": "Chapter XXXVI", "words": 179, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/31-chapter-xxxvi/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/31-chapter-xxxvi.json", "project_translation": false } ] }