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The Book of Enoch, Chapter 16 summary

Chapter 16 of 108 · 1 min to read the chapter

In Chapter 16, the speaker explains that spirits from the destroyed giants continue causing destruction until the final judgment, which ends the present world and sets things right. The speaker also commands a messenger to condemn the Watchers for teaching harmful knowledge to human women and declares that they receive no peace.

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  1. Spirits from the destroyed giants continue causing destruction without judgment.
  2. The speaker identifies the final judgment as the limit of this destruction and the reckoning for fallen Watchers and wicked people.
  3. The speaker orders a messenger to tell the Watchers that their heavenly knowledge is incomplete, useless, and harmful.
  4. The Watchers teach this knowledge to human women, and both men and women commit great evil because of it.
  5. The message ends by denying the Watchers peace.

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