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1 Enoch 10 orders Raphael to bind Azazel in a remote desert until judgment. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this banishment but has Abraham speak the command under Jaoel’s direction, giving a human a role in expelling the fallen angel.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Enoch 10:4
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
1 Then the Most High, the Holy and Great One spoke, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, saying to him: 2 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name to hide himself and reveal to him that the end is near: the entire earth will be destroyed, a deluge is about to cover the whole earth and will wipe out everything on it. 3 And now instruct him so that he may escape and his descendants may be preserved for all future generations.' 4 And the Lord also said to Raphael: 'Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: make a hole in the desert in Dûdâêl, and throw him in. 5 Place upon him rough and jagged rocks, cover him with darkness, and let him remain there forever, and cover his face so he may not see light.
Apocalypse of Abraham 14:5
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
2 And he said: "Know from now on that the Eternal One has chosen you, (He) whom you love; 3 be of good courage and use this authority, so far as I bid you, against him who slanders truth; 4 should I not be able to put him to shame who has scattered over the earth the secrets of heaven and has rebelled against the Mighty One? 5 Say to him: Be the burning coal of the Furnace of the earth; go, Azazel, into the inaccessible parts of the earth; 6 [for your heritage is (to be) over those existing with you being born with the stars and clouds, with the men whose portion you are, and (who) through your being exist; 7 and your enmity is justification. On this account by your perdition disappear from me."
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Notes and References
“... In 1 Enoch x. 4 Azazel
is condemned to be bound and placed in Dudâêl, in the desert, and there to be imprisoned in darkness
till the final judgement. ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 34) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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