1 Enoch 15

1And he answered and said to me, and I heard his voice: “Do not fear, Enoch, righteous man and scribe of righteousness. Come near here and hear my word.”

2And go, say to the Watchers of heaven who sent you to petition on their behalf: “You ought to petition on behalf of humankind, and not humankind on your behalf.”

3Why did you abandon the high, holy, eternal heaven, lie with women, defile yourselves with the daughters of humankind, take wives for yourselves, act as the children of the earth do, and beget giant sons?

4But you were holy, spiritual beings, living an eternal life; yet you defiled yourselves in the blood of women, begot children through the blood of flesh, lusted in human blood, and made flesh and blood as they do—those who die and perish.

5Therefore I gave them women, so that they might sow seed in them and children might be born through them, so that in this way work might not fail for them on the earth.

6But you, formerly, were spiritual beings, living an eternal life that does not die throughout all the generations of the world.

7And because of this I have not appointed wives for you, for the dwelling of the spiritual ones of heaven is in heaven.

8And now the giants who were born from spirits and flesh will be called evil spirits upon the earth, and their dwelling shall be in the earth.

9And evil spirits came out from their flesh, because they were created from above, and their beginning and first foundation were from the holy Watchers. They shall be evil spirits upon the earth and shall be called evil spirits.

10The spirits of heaven shall have their dwelling in heaven, and the spirits of the earth, who were born upon the earth, shall have their dwelling in the earth.

11And the spirits of the giants—clouds—are those who oppress, destroy, fall, fight, and crush upon the earth, and cause sorrow. They eat no food, yet thirst and are hindered.

12And these spirits shall rise against the children of humankind and against women, because they came forth from them.