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U N D E R S T A N D I N G
J U B I L E E S
Evil Doctrines of the Watchers
Jubilees 8:1-4
In the twenty-ninth jubilee, in the first week, in the beginning thereof Arpachshad took
to himself a wife and her name was Râsû’jâ, [the daughter of Sûsân,] the daughter
of Elam, and she bare him a son in the third year in this week, and he called his name
Kâinâm. And the son grew, and his father taught him writing, and he went to seek for
himself a place where he might seize for himself a city. And he found a writing which
former (generations) had carved on the rock, and he read what was thereon, and he
transcribed it and sinned owing to it; for it contained the teaching of the Watchers in
accordance with which they used to observe the omens of the sun and moon and stars
in all the signs of heaven. And he wrote it down and said nothing regarding it; for he
was afraid to speak to Noah about it lest he should be angry with him on account of it.
Arpachshad’s descendants are known in part as the Chaldeans who practiced this
continued occult doctrine even in the days of Abraham’s father, Terah.
Jubilees 11:8
And she bare him Nahor, in the first year of this week, and he grew and dwelt in Ur
of the Chaldees, and his father taught him the researches of the Chaldees to divine and
augur, according to the signs of heaven.
Jubilees 7:21-24
For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth, namely, owing to the
fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances went a whoring
after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which they chose: and
they made the beginning of uncleanness. 22 And they begat sons the Nâphîdîm,
and †they were all unlike†, and they devoured one another: and the Giants slew the
Nâphîl, and the Nâphîl slew the Eljô, and the Eljô mankind, and one man another.
23 And every one sold himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth
was filled with iniquity. 24 And after this they sinned against the beasts and birds,
and all that moveth and walketh on the earth: and much blood was shed on the earth,
and every imagination and desire of men imagined vanity and evil continually.
For specifics on what the Watchers taught, one has to go to the Book of Enoch.
1 Enoch 10:8
And Azaz’el taught the people the art of making swords and knives, and shields, and
breastplates; and he showed to their chosen ones bracelets, decorations, shadowing
of the eye with antimony, ornamentation, the beautifying of the eyelids, all kinds of
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