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4Q180

The Ages of the Creation

Dead Sea Scrolls · 160 B.C.E. - 60 B.C.E.

The only section of 4Q180 that yields coherent results and sense deals with the myth of the fallen angels and the daughters of men, which is based on Genesis 6:1-4, and fully developed in 1 Enoch. Based on the text provided by Martin G. Abegg Jr., James E. Bowley, and Edward M. Cook.

Fragment 1

1 Interpretation concerning the ages that God made: an age to complete […] 2 and will be. Before he created them he set in place [their] workings […] 3 age by age. And it is engraved on […] 4 … the ages of their dominions. This is the order of … […] 5 … fathered Isaac; the ten […] 6 […] 7 [1]Interpretation concerning Azazel and the angels who […] 8 and they bore them mighty ones. And concerning Azazel […] 9 […] iniquity, and to make wickedness an inheritance, all … […] 10 […] … judgments and the judgment of the council of … […]

Fragments 2-4 i

1 […] way 2 […] upon his face 3 […] 4 […] … 5 […] … 6 […] … 7 […] Noah said 8 […] …

Fragments 2-4 ii

1 which … […] … it is that which dwelt … […] … […] 2 I know … […] … beautiful … […] … […] 3 … […] the three men […] 4 […] … [2]from the oaks of Mamre, they are angels […] 5 […] he will stand … […] their sin … […] 6 … […] … now, and I will … […] 7 … all … […] 8 … […] … […] 9 speaking […] and I will see, for everything […] 10 … […] [3]before he created them he knew [their] thoughts […]

Fragments 5-6

1 […] … […] 2 [… which is] written concerning the … […] 3 […] a journey of two days … […] 4 […] … Mount Zion, Jerusalem […] 5 [… which] is written concerning Pharaoh […] 6 […] … […]

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