Christianity

Chapter7— The Nephilim

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Chapter 7 of the Book of the Watchers within 1 Enoch narrates the descent of the fallen angels, known as the Watchers, who intermarry with humanity to produce the Nephilim. These giants are depicted as agents of cosmic corruption whose voracious consumption of resources and predation upon all living creatures precipitate a catastrophic moral and ecological collapse. This narrative serves as a foundational etiology for the existence of evil and the subsequent divine judgment found in later Judeo-Christian apocalyptic traditions.

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King James Version (1611)

1611 · Public domain

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And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. ²And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells.The Descent of the D… ³Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. ⁴And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. ⁵And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. ⁶Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

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The Descent of the Divine into Mortal Formv2

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