In The Book of Giants
The Book of Giants calls the Watchers heavenly beings and describes their relationships with human women as forbidden. The children born from these relationships are called the Nephilim, and the passage describes them as giant hybrid children. Elsewhere in the text, dreams trouble the giants, and two of them wake frightened by what they have seen.
In 1 Enoch
The giants eat everything that people work to produce, then turn on humans when there is no longer enough food. Their destruction fills the earth with violence and corruption, and their acts also reach birds, animals, reptiles, and fish.
The text also describes what follows the destruction of the giants, when spirits come from their bodies. These spirits continue to bring destruction without judgment, and the passage describes them bringing suffering, oppression, and misery.
In Jubilees
In Jubilees, God's angels take wives from among human women, and those women give birth to sons who are giants. Another passage describes the Giants killing the Naphil, the Naphil killing the Eljo, and the Eljo killing humans. Jubilees also names the Rephaim as giants and gives their heights as ranging from seven to ten cubits.
Where the Nephilim and the giants appear
- The Book of GiantsThe Book of Giants names the Nephilim as giant children of the Watchers and human women. · The Complete Books of Enoch
- 1 EnochThe passage describes giants exhausting people's food supplies and then turning on humans to eat them. · The Complete Books of Enoch
- JubileesJubilees describes human women bearing giant sons after God's angels take them as wives. · The Complete 88-Book Ethiopian Bible
- GenesisGenesis places the Nephilim on earth when God's sons have children with human daughters, and also later. · The Complete 88-Book Ethiopian Bible
- NumbersNumbers reports a sighting of the Nephilim and identifies the descendants of Anak as part of them. · The Complete 88-Book Ethiopian Bible
- DeuteronomyDeuteronomy recalls seeing the Anakim giants and follows that report with an instruction not to be scared. · The Complete 88-Book Ethiopian Bible
What the texts say, in their own words
“These heavenly beings, called the Watchers, formed forbidden relationships with human women, which led to the birth of giant hybrid children known as the Nephilim.”
“These giants ate everything that people had worked hard to produce. When there was no longer enough food, they turned on the humans and started to eat them instead.”
“Since the time when the giants were destroyed, the spirits that came from their bodies have continued to bring destruction without being judged.”
“It happened when people started to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them, that God’s angels saw them in a certain year of this jubilee, and they were beautiful to look at; so they took wives from all the women they chose, and these women gave birth to sons who were giants.”
Questions
Who were the Nephilim?
In The Book of Giants, the Nephilim are giant hybrid children born to the Watchers and human women. Genesis places the Nephilim on earth when God's sons have children with human daughters, and also later.
Who are the parents of Nephilim and the giants?
The Book of Giants names the Watchers and human women as the parents of the Nephilim. In Jubilees, God's angels take human wives, and the women give birth to giant sons.
What happens to Nephilim and the giants?
One passage describes the giants being destroyed, while spirits from their bodies continue to bring destruction without judgment. In The Book of Giants, dreams trouble the giants and leave two of them frightened when they wake.
Where is the Nephilim and the giants mentioned in the lost texts?
The Nephilim and the giants appears in The Book of Giants and 1 Enoch, in The Complete Books of Enoch; Jubilees, Genesis, Numbers and Deuteronomy, in The Complete 88-Book Ethiopian Bible.
