Book of Giants

The Book of Giants

[Surviving in scattered Aramaic fragments; the connecting narrative is lost, and the order of the pieces is uncertain.]

… and they knew the secrets of [Text missing] … and the giants were born to the Watchers, and they did violence upon the earth, and corrupted all flesh, and devoured one another’s labor. [Line damaged]

Then the giants were troubled by their dreams. Ohyah said to his brother, “In my dream I saw the rulers of heaven come down to earth; they uprooted a great garden, all but three of its trees, and the waters covered all.” And the dream troubled them all. [Text missing]

And another dream came: a tablet was read out, and upon it was written the judgment of all their deeds, and a sentence of destruction. They could not interpret it, and they were afraid.

So they said, “Who can tell us the meaning?” And they chose Mahaway, and sent him to Enoch, the scribe of righteousness, at the ends of the earth. Mahaway flew with his hands like an eagle, crossing the deserts, until he came to where Enoch was. [Line damaged]

Enoch answered and sent word to the giants: that there is no peace for them; that their fathers the Watchers transgressed, and they themselves after them; that the earth would be cleansed of its corruption by a flood, and the giants would not endure. Yet [Text missing] until the great judgment, when all wickedness shall be brought to an end.

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