1 Women are dangerous, my children. Since they have no direct power or strength over a man, they use tricks and their appearance to draw him to themselves. 2 Any man they cannot attract by their looks, they overcome by cunning. 3 The angel of the Lord told me that women are overcome by the spirit of sexual immorality more than men. In their hearts they scheme against men: first they captivate their minds through how they dress, then through a look they plant the desire, and finally through the act itself they capture them. 4 A woman cannot overpower a man directly, but through seduction she lures him. 5 So flee from sexual immorality, my children, and tell your wives and daughters not to dress up their heads and faces to deceive,⁠a because every woman who uses these tricks has been set aside for eternal punishment. 6 This is how they seduced the Watchers before the flood. As the Watchers kept seeing them, they lusted after them and plotted the act in their minds. They transformed themselves into the shape of men and appeared to the women while they were with their husbands.⁠b 7 The women lusted in their minds after the appearance of the Watchers, and they gave birth to giants, for the Watchers had appeared to them as reaching all the way to heaven.⁠c