Skip to main content
« The Vision of the Throne of Glory The Doom of the Giants' Spirits »
0:00 / 0:00

The Book of Enoch 15

2 min 10 verses

God's Rebuke of the Watchers

Themes: The Watchers and Their Fall

A1🔗s for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.]

2🔗 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences.

3🔗 And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.

4🔗 Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons.

5🔗 And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, =as the children= of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die and perish.

6🔗 Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.

7🔗 But you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world.

8🔗 And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.

9🔗 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.

10🔗 Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [

Continue Reading The Book of Enoch 16 The Doom of the Giants' Spirits

← → arrow keys to navigate chapters · spacebar to play/pause audio

Chapter Context