1 Enoch: the Book of the Watchers (Chapters 1-36)
36 chapters · 221 verses · 8,091 words
Third century BCE, and one of the earliest Jewish apocalyptic writings. Angels called Watchers descend, take human wives, teach metallurgy, cosmetics, sorcery, and astrology, and father the giant Nephilim; the earth cries out, the archangels intervene, and the Watchers are bound. Enoch is then taken on tours of the cosmos and shown the places of the dead, the mountains of judgment, and the tree of life. Aramaic fragments were found at Qumran. Quoted directly in Jude 14-15. Canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition; in no other major canon.
Translation: R. H. Charles, 1917. Charles used double square brackets for material he judged interpolated, single brackets for restorations, and parentheses for words supplied for sense; daggers mark corrupt text. These marks are preserved as printed.