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Chapter 2: The Fall of the Watchers
Book of the Watchers
2:1
And they all swore together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
2:2
And Semjaza taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the working of metals.
Parallels with Canonical Texts
Isaiah 2:4
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Connection: Weapons of war
2:3
And Kokabel taught the constellations, Baraqijal taught the signs of the stars.
2:4
And Hasmodai taught all sorcery and the cutting of roots; and Pharmares taught the working of herbs.
2:5
And these beings began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.
2:6
Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.