Enoch, Jubilees and others · 1 Enoch 6:1–8
Two hundred descend on Mount Hermon
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And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'… And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon.
Translation: R. H. Charles, 1917
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Read it literally
A named landing site (Hermon, 9,200 ft, on today's Syria–Lebanon–Israel border), a number, a leader (Semjaza), twenty named officers, and a binding oath so nobody backs out. Hermon comes from herem, 'ban' or 'curse'.
What scholars say
Aramaic fragments at Qumran; the full text survives only in Ge'ez (Ethiopic). Canon in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
