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1 Enoch 7:1–6 — The Giants and the Cry of the Earth | The Lost Books · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time beyond the sixty-six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're looking at first Enoch chapter seven verses one through six, The Giants and the Cry of the Earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reading from the R.
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  SPEAKER_00: H.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Translation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And 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.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand Ls, who consumed all the acquisitions of men.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they began to sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish, and to devour one another's flesh and drink the blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The oath from the previous chapter becomes action.
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  SPEAKER_00: The angels take wives, and the account describes those relationships as defiling them.
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  SPEAKER_00: That wording connects their conduct with the great sin their leader had already acknowledged.
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  SPEAKER_00: They proceed despite the warning expressed within their own group.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teaching also enters the scene.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alongside the relationships, the passage lists charms, enchantments, root cutting, and knowledge of plants.
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  SPEAKER_00: These teachings are introduced within the account of the angels' wrongdoing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this short passage does not explain every practice or establish that all knowledge of plants is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should keep our conclusions within what it actually describes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the focus shifts to the giants and what they consume.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before the account describes them attacking mankind, it says they consume all the acquisitions of men.
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  SPEAKER_00: The turning point comes when people can no longer sustain them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their demands exhaust what humanity can provide, and then the people themselves become their victims.
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  SPEAKER_00: The translation gives their height as 3,000 L's We should acknowledge that striking wording without turning it into a confident modern measurement.
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  SPEAKER_00: This passage gives no explanation of how that figure was determined.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our reading preserves the number as it appears in this edition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The violence then spreads across the living world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish all appear in the description.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage says the giants sin against them, then describes flesh being devoured and blood being drunk.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does not spell out a separate action against each kind of creature, but its scope is clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: The harm reaches beyond mankind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, the earth itself brings an accusation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The closing line presents the damaged world as a witness against the lawless ones.
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  SPEAKER_00: The account does not describe a human court or give the wording of the accusation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It ends by placing the wrongdoing under accusation, preparing us for the cry that goes up to heaven in the next chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes 1 Enoch 7, verses 1 through 6 The Giants and the Cry of the Earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with chapter 8, Forbidden Teaching and Growing Corruption.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.