1 And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice, “Fear not, Ḥanoḵ, you righteous man and scribe of righteousness, approach here and hear my voice.
2 “And go, say to the watchers of the shamayim who have sent you to intercede for them, ‘You should intercede for men, and not men for you.
3 ‘Why have you left the high, qodesh, and eternal shamayim, 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 sons?
4 ‘And though you were qodesh, spiritual, living the eternal ḥai, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have brought forth 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.
5 ‘Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and bring forth children by them, that thus none might be lacking to them on earth.
6 ‘But you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal ḥai, and immortal for all generations of the world.
7 ‘And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the shamayim, in the shamayim is their dwelling.
8 ‘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.
9 ‘Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the qodesh watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called.
10 ‘As for the spirits of the shamayim, in the shamayim 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.
11 ‘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. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.