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The Book of Enoch · 6 of 109
Chapter VI. The Fall of the Angels
1.And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
2.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.’
3.And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’
4.And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’
5.Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
6.And they were in all two hundred; who descended [in the days] of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
7.And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl.
8.These are their chiefs of tens.
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Why do the angels swear on Mount Hermon before mating with human women?
The chapter shows the angels make a deliberate, binding choice: they “swore and bound themselves by mutual imprecations” to take human wives, so the oath is the ritual that converts desire into a collective, irreversible decision. Naming Mount Hermon as the place they swore gives the act a public, sacred geography—Hermon becomes the witness and seal of their pact.
The oath also spreads responsibility: Semjâzâ fears being held alone accountable, so the mutual imprecations distribute culpability across two hundred angels and their chiefs of tens. That dynamic echoes later biblical concerns about leadership and corporate guilt found in Jeremiah and, in a different genre, the communal responsibility themes of Genesis.
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