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Apocrypha · Chapter 8 of 105

Book of Enoch 8

Ethiopic

Moreover, Azaziel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, the workmanship of bracelets, ornaments, the use of paint, beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and of all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered.

2Impiety increased, fornication multiplied, and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways.

3Samiaza taught all the sorcerers and dividers of roots.

4Armers taught the solution of sorcery.

5Barakel taught the observers of the stars.

6Akibeel taught signs.

7Tamiel taught astronomy. Zakiel taught the inspection of the air. Armen taught the signs of the earth. Danyal taught the signs of the sun.

8And Sariel taught the motions of the moon.

9And the giants devoured all that the labour of men produced, until it became impossible to feed them, and after that they began to eat the flesh of men, and men began to be few on earth, and they who remained called to heaven concerning that evil, saying, Let a remembrance of us be brought before the Most High.

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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.