The Book of Enoch 86
The Fall of the Angels and the Demoralization of Mankind.
Themes: The Watchers and Their Fall
1nd I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into an abyss: now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark.
2 And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them.
3 And as I was beholding in the vision, lo, one of the four who had come forth stoned (them) from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and bound them all hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.
4 And one said unto me: ‘Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.’ LXXXVIII. _The Punishment of the Fallen Angels by the Archangels._ LXXXVIII.
5 And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns.
6 And they began moreover to devour those oxen; and behold all the children of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them. LXXXVII. _The Advent of the Seven Archangels._ LXXXVII.
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