The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

Sect. I.] Chapters VI. 7— VIII. 1. 65
and taught them charms and
enchantments, and made them
acquainted with the cutting
of roots and of woods. 2.
And they became pregnant,
and they bare great giants,
whose height was three thou-
sand ells. 3. And these
consumed all the acquisitions
of men till men could no
longer sustain them. 4. Then
the giants turned them against
mankind in order to devour
them. 5. And they began
to sin against birds, and beasts,
and reptiles, and fish, and
to devour one another's flesh,
and drink the blood there-
of. 6. Then the earth com-
plained of the unrighteous
ones.
VIII. [t. And Azazel taught
the Greek are no doubt due to later
hands. 1. Charms and enchant-
ments. Cf. Joseph. Ant. viii. 2, 5.
2. Bare great giants. For further
references to these cf. Wisd. xiv. 6
Tob. vi. 14; Ecclus. xvi. 7; Bar. iii.26;
3 Mace. ii. 4; Jubilees v. Whose
height was three thousand ells.
The number three thousand is found in
the Giz. Gk. but it is wanting in the
Syn. Gk. The three classes of giants
mentioned in the Greek—the Great
Giants, the Nephalim, and the Eliud
were, we must suppose, originally
given in this chapter as they are pre-
supposed in lxx xvi. 4; lxxxviii. 2, and
passed from Enoch into Jubilees vii,
where they are called Giants, Naphil,
and Elj6. 3-6. These verses occur
eTov yiyav-
ras ii€ya\ovs. oi 6e yCyapres
€T£KV(*)(rav Na^r^A-etjtx, Kat rot?
Na^A-et/x, eyevvrjOrjo-av 'EAtovo.
Kat rfTav av^avofjievoL Kara ti]v
/uteyaAetoTT^ra avr&v, Kat edtda-
£av kavrovs Kat ras yvvcuKas
kavT&v (j)apjJLaK€ taj Kat eiraoi-
Stay. Hp&Tos 'A£ar)A. 6 beKaros
t&v apyovToav e5t'8afe irotdv
fxa^atpas Kat OcopaKas Kat tiav
crKtvosTToheiMKOv Kat ra /xeraAAa
in a different order in the Greek—at
the end of viii. 3 and in a very short-
ened form. The Greek order seems
preferable. 5. Blood. The eating
of blood with the Jews was a great
crime, Gen. ix. 4 ; Acts xv. 20 ; Book
of Jubilees vii, xxi ; En. xcviii. 11.
One another's flesh. This may refer
to the destruction of one class of giants
by another. Cf. Book of Jubilees vii.
The text—cf. the Giz. Gk. dWrjXuv
ras o&picas—does not admit of Dln.'s
interpretation.
VIII. 1-3. An interpolation. See
p. 61. Azazel in viii. I is only the
tenth in command, but first in
the genuine parts. 1. Azazel.
Cf. Rosenmuller's Scholia on Lev.
xvi. 8 ; Herzog's B. E, ii. 23-25.