7.1b
The Book of Enoch 7.1b · Drugs, spells and roots📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
What the angels gave the women in return.
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ወወጠኑ፡1
wa-waṭṭanu
And they began
ይባኡ፡2
yǝbāʾu
to go inthat they go in
ኀቤሆን፡3
ḫabehon
to them
ወተደመሩ፡4
wa-tadammaru
and mingledand they were mixed
ምስሌሆን፡5
mǝslehon
with them;
; ወመሀርዎን፡6
wa-maharǝwwon
and they taught them
ሥራያተ፡7
śǝrāyāta
drugsmedicines
ወሥብዓታተ፡8
wa-śǝbʿātāta
and spells,and incantations
, ወመቲረ፡9
wa-matira
and the cutting of
ስርው፡10
sǝrw
roots,
, ወዕፀው፡11
wa-ʿǝḍaw
and plantsand trees
አመርዎን።12
ʾamarǝwwon
they made known to them.they showed them
. And they began to go in to them and mingled with them; and they taught them drugs and spells, and the cutting of roots, and plants they made known to them.
And they began to go in to them and mingled with them; and they taught them drugs and spells, and the cutting of roots, and plants they made known to them.
7.2
The Book of Enoch 7.2 · Great giants📜 Charles 1906, the printed page
The children of the angels and the women.
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And they conceived and bore great giants, and their height was three thousand cubits each.
The first thing the angels teach is śǝrāy. Dillmann renders it medicamentum, medicina, pharmacum: medicine and drug together, the Greek pharmakon. Then spells, then the root-cutter’s trade, then plants. In the ancient world the healer, the herbalist and the sorcerer were often the same person, and Enoch makes all of that knowledge a gift from fallen angels.
Charles suspected that “mingled with them” stands for a verb meaning “to defile themselves”, which is how the Greek reads. Ge’ez has the gentler word.