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on the seventh, the entrance of angels to God and the exit of angels, on the eighth, praise and sacrifices of angels, on the ninth, prayer and worship of man, on the tenth, inspections of the waters and prayers of celestial and terrestrial beings, on the eleventh, confession and exultation of all, on the twelfth, intercession of men for goodwill. And in the nine hundred and thirtieth year Adam fell asleep on the very day of the transgression, and departed to the earth from which he was taken, leaving behind 33 male sons and 27 daughters. He ruled the race of men throughout his entire life. And his burial took place in the land of Jerusalem, as Josephus recounts. At the same time Cain also died, when his house fell upon him, one year after the death of Adam. Seth after Adam ruled over men. And the Watchers from his race, in the one thousand two hundredth year of the cosmogony, when Jared was in his fortieth, and Seth himself in his seven hundred and seventieth, went astray and came down, and took for themselves wives from the daughters of the sons of men, that is, of Cain, and they begot the giants of renown. And these giants, on the one hand, through the righteous Seth, became strong and very great and exceedingly tall in body size, and monstrous 1.19 and abominable (whence also they received their name), but on the other hand, through the profane Cain, they were mighty and most powerful and staunch in valor, but in character most murderous and most impious and most licentious; whom some also called dragon-footed, either as being bestial in their minds and considering nothing good, or as some relate, because having a war with some who lived in high places, they then crept up against them on hands and feet and bellies like dragons, by whom also many were often killed, being struck from above, they were called dragon-footed. Not a few of these the Most High destroyed, striking them from heaven with balls of fire, that is, thunderbolts; and God afterwards destroyed all the rest, who remained unfeeling and incorrigible, by a flood. These swore on mount Hermoniim to choose for themselves wives from the sons of men, that is, of the race of Cain, and they called the mountain Hermon, because they swore and bound one another with curses on it. These teach their wives sorceries and incantations. And first Azael, their tenth leader (for the leaders of those who descended were two hundred), taught them to make swords and breastplates and every instrument of war, and the things from the metals of the earth, such as gold, silver, and the rest. And each one likewise, one taught adornment of the body, another choice stones and the arts of dyeing, another the roots of herbs, another wisdom and the dissolving of spells, another astronomy and star-gazing, another 1.20 astrology, another divination by air, another signs of the earth, another of the sun and moon. So there was neither a kingdom of the Babylonians nor of the Chaldeans, as seems to Berossus and his followers to the subversion of the divine scriptures, nor a dynasty of the Egyptians, as Manetho falsely says, magnifying the nation of the Egyptians; for the beginning of the kingdom of the Babylonians, that is, the Chaldeans, came from Nebroth, who flourished six hundred and thirty years after the flood. And those who have written otherwise, more mythically, concerning these things, have written by stealing from our divinely inspired scriptures and appropriating them; by which the more simple-minded, paying attention to the rest of their nonsense, are easily harmed. That in the 1488th year of the world Enoch was translated into paradise, being three hundred and sixty-five years old. he pleased God; and he was not found because God translated him. That according to the so-called geographers, one half of the inhabited world is twelve thousand miles in length, and sixteen thousand miles in width. That we know the mountains of Ararat are in Parthia of Armenia; but some say, in Celaenae of Phrygia.

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ἑβδόμῃ ἀγγέλων εἴσοδος πρὸς θεὸν καὶ ἔξοδος ἀγγέλων, ὀγδόῃ αἴνεσις καὶ θυσίαι ἀγγέλων, ἐν νάτῃ δέησις καὶ λατρεία ἀνθρώπου, δεκάτῃ ἐπισκοπαὶ ὑδάτων καὶ δεήσεις οὐρανίων καὶ ἐπιγείων, ἑνδεκάτῃ ἀνθομολόγησις καὶ ἀγαλλίασις πάντων, δωδεκάτῃ ἔντευξις ἀνθρώπων εἰς εὐδοκίας. τῷ δὲ ἐννακοσιοστῷ τριακοστῷ ἔτει Ἀδὰμ ἐκοιμήθη κατ' αὐτὴν τῆς παραβάσεως ἡμέραν, καὶ εἰς τὴν γῆν ἐξ ἧς ἐλήφθη ἀπῆλθε, κατα λείψας ἄρρενας υἱοὺς λγʹ καὶ θυγατέρας κζʹ. οὗτος ἡγεμόνευσε τοῦ γένους τῶν ἀνθρώπων δι' ὅλης αὐτοῦ τῆς ζωῆς. ἡ δὲ ταφὴ αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὴν τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων γέγονε γῆν, ὡς Ἰώσηπος ἱστορεῖ. τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ καὶ Κάϊν ἀπέθανε, πεσόντος ἐπ' αὐτὸν τοῦ οἰκήματος, μετ' ἐνιαυτὸν ἕνα τῆς τοῦ Ἀδὰμ τελευτῆς. Σὴθ μετὰ Ἀδὰμ ἡγεμόνευσε τῶν ἀνθρώπων. οἱ δὲ ἐκ γέ νους αὐτοῦ Ἐγρήγορες διακοσιοστῷ χιλιοστῷ τῆς κοσμογενείας ἔτει, τεσσαρακοστοῦ δὲ ὄντος τοῦ Ἰάρεδ, αὐτοῦ δὲ τοῦ Σὴθ ἑπτα κοσιοστοῦ ἑβδομηκοστοῦ, πλανηθέντες κατέβησαν, καὶ ἔλαβον ἑαυτοῖς γυναῖκας ἐκ τῶν θυγατέρων τῶν υἱῶν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἤγουν τοῦ Κάϊν, καὶ ἐγέννησαν τοὺς γίγαντας τοὺς ὀνομαστούς. οἱ δὲ γίγαντες οὗτοι διὰ μὲν τὸν δίκαιον Σὴθ ἐγένοντο ἰσχυροὶ καὶ μέγιστοι καὶ τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ σώματος ὑπερμήκεις, τερατώδεις τε 1.19 καὶ ἀπευκτοί (ὅθεν καὶ τὴν προσωνυμίαν ἐσχήκασι), διὰ δὲ τὸν βέβηλον Κάϊν ἄλκιμοι καὶ κραταιότατοι καὶ στερροὶ καὶ τὴν ἀλκήν, τὸν δὲ τρόπον φονικώτατοι καὶ ἀσεβέστατοι καὶ ἀσελγέστατοι· οὓς καὶ δρακοντόποδάς τινες προσηγόρευσαν, ἢ ὡς τεθηριωμένους ταῖς γνώμαις καὶ μηδὲν ἀγαθὸν λογιζομένους, ἢ ὥς τινες ἱστο ροῦσιν, ὅτι πόλεμον ἔχοντες μετά τινων οἰκούντων ἐν ὑψηλοῖς, εἶτα χερσὶ καὶ ποσὶ καὶ κοιλίαις ὡς δράκοντες ἀνέρποντες κατ' αὐτῶν, ὑφ' ὧν καὶ πολλοὶ πολλάκις ἄνωθεν ἀνῃροῦντο βαλλόμενοι, δρακοντόποδες ἐκέκληντο. τούτων οὐκ ὀλίγους μὲν σφαίραις πυρὸς ἤτοι κεραυνοῖς οὐρανόθεν ὁ ὕψιστος ἐξανάλωσε βαλών· ἀνεπαισθήτους δὲ τοὺς περιλοίπους καὶ ἀδιορθώτους ἐπιμένοντας κατακλυσμῷ μετὰ ταῦτα τοὺς πάντας ἐξανάλωσεν ὁ θεός. οὗτοι ὤμοσαν ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ Ἑρμονιεὶμ ἐκλέξασθαι γυναῖκας ἀπὸ τῶν υἱῶν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἤγουν τῆς τοῦ Κάϊν γενεᾶς, καὶ ἐκάλεσαν τὸ ὄρος Ἑρμών, καθότι ὤμοσαν καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισαν ἀλλήλους ἐν αὐτῷ. οὗτοι διδάσκουσι τὰς γυναῖκας αὐτῶν φαρμακείας καὶ ἐπαοιδίας. καὶ πρῶτος Ἀζαὴλ ὁ δέκατος ἄρχων αὐτῶν (καὶ γὰρ οἱ ἄρχοντες τῶν κατελθόντων διακόσιοι ἦσαν) ἐδίδαξεν αὐτοὺς ποιεῖν μαχαίρας καὶ θώρακας καὶ πᾶν σκεῦος πολεμικόν, καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν μετάλλων τῆς γῆς, οἷον χρυσίον ἀργύριον καὶ τὰ λοιπά. καὶ ἕκαστος ὁμοίως, ὁ μὲν καλλωπισμὸν σώματος, ὁ δὲ ἐκλεκτοὺς λίθους καὶ τὰ βαφικά, ὁ δὲ ῥίζας βοτανῶν, ὁ δὲ σοφίαν καὶ ἐπαοιδῶν λυτήρια, ὁ δὲ ἀστρονομίαν καὶ ἀστροσκοπίαν, ἄλλος 1.20 ἀστρολογίαν, ὁ δὲ ἀεροσκοπίαν, ὁ δὲ σημεῖα γῆς, ἄλλος ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης. ὥστε οὐδὲ Βαβυλωνίων ἦν οὐδὲ Χαλδαίων βασιλεία, ὡς τῷ Βηροσσῷ καὶ τοῖς ἑπομένοις δοκεῖ πρὸς ἀνατροπὴν τῶν θείων γραφῶν, οὔτε Αἰγυπτίων δυναστεία, ὡς τῷ Μανέθῳ ψευδομένῳ καὶ μεγαλύνοντι τὸ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἔθνος· ἡ γὰρ ἀρχὴ τῆς τῶν Βαβυλωνίων βασιλείας ἤτοι Χαλδαίων ἀπὸ Νεβρὼθ τοῦ μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν εἰς ἔτη ἑξακόσια τριάκοντα ἀκμάσαντος γέ γονεν. οἵτινες δὲ ἄλλως περὶ τούτων μυθικώτερον γεγράφασιν, ἀπὸ τῶν θεοπνεύστων ἡμῶν γραφῶν κλέψαντες γεγράφασιν ἰδιο ποιησάμενοι· δι' ὧν οἱ ἁπλούστεροι καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς τούτων ληρή μασι προσέχοντες εὐχερῶς βλάπτονται. Ὅτι τῷ αυπηʹ ἔτει τοῦ κόσμου Ἐνὼχ μετετέθη ἐν τῷ παρα δείσῳ, τριακοσίων ἑξήκοντα πέντε χρόνων γενόμενος. εὐηρέστησε τῷ θεῷ· καὶ οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο διότι μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεός. Ὅτι κατὰ τοὺς λεγομένους γεωμέτρας, ἐστὶ τὸ ἥμισυ τῆς κατοικουμένης τῆς εἰς τὸ μῆκος μίλια χιλιάδες δώδεκα, εἰς δὲ τὸ πλάτος μίλια χιλιάδες δέκα ἕξ. Ὅτι τὰ ὄρη Ἀραρὰτ ἴσμεν ἐν Παρθίᾳ τῆς Ἀρμενίας εἶναι· τινὲς δέ φασιν, ἐν Κελαιναῖς τῆς Φρυγίας.