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1 Enoch 7

Pseudepigrapha — not canonical

R.H. Charles, 1917 (Oxford / Clarendon Press). These texts are not endorsed in any LDS canon — see framing.

1And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms

2and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they

3became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed

4all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against

5them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and

6fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

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