The Book of Enoch 88
Book IV The Book of Dream Visions Chapters 83–90 · c. 165-160 BCE
Two dream visions, including the Animal Apocalypse - a symbolic history of the world from Adam to the end, with peoples shown as animals.
Dating & manuscripts. The Animal Apocalypse (85-90) allegorizes the Maccabean revolt, which dates it precisely to the 160s BCE - the reign of Antiochus IV and Judas Maccabeus.
1 Enoch is an anthology of five distinct works, composed over roughly three centuries.
The Punishment of the Fallen Angels
One of those four who had come forth first seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven and bound it hand and foot.
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 those 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.
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One of those four who had come forth first seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven and bound it hand and foot.
The abyss into which that first star was cast was narrow and deep and horrible and dark.
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.
One of those 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.
One of those four bound all the great stars hand and foot and cast them in an abyss of the earth.
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In brief
Enoch sees one of four seize the first fallen star, bind it and cast it into a narrow deep horrible dark abyss. One gives a sword to elephants camels and asses who smite each other making the earth quake, and another stones binds and casts the great stars with horse-like privy members into an abyss.