1 Enoch — Book of the Watchers

The first and most influential section of 1 Enoch, an apocalyptic work preserved in full only in Ge'ez (Ethiopic). It expands on Genesis 6:1–4, telling of the Watchers — angels who descended to Mount Hermon, took human wives, fathered the Nephilim, and taught humanity forbidden arts. Enoch is commissioned to rebuke them and bear witness to the throne of God. Selections from R. H. Charles's canonical 1917 translation, public domain.