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The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic work traditionally attributed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. It is canonical only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The original language was either Hebrew or Aramaic, and the only complete extant version is in Ge'ez. This translation by R.H. Charles (1917) remains the standard scholarly English translation. The book is pseudepigraphal and was highly influential on early Christian and Jewish mystical thought. It is not included in the Protestant, Catholic, or most Orthodox canons.

Enoch

Chapter 8

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And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals (of the earth) and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures.

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And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.

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Semjaza taught enchantments, and root- cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baragijal, (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezê- qêêl the knowledge of the clouds, (Araqiê the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun), and Sariêl the course of the moon.

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And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven. . . .

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