1 Enoch 10:12
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11 And the Lord said to Michael: 'Go, bind Semjâzâ and his companions who have joined with women and defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. 12 And when their sons have killed each other, and they have seen the destruction of their loved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, until the day of their judgment and their ultimate end, until the judgment that lasts forever is completed. 13 In those days they will be taken to the abyss of fire: to the torment and the prison where they will be confined forever. And whoever is condemned and destroyed will henceforth be bound together with them till the end of all ages.
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Jubileees 5:10
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9 He sent his sword among them so that they would kill one another. They began to kill each other until all of them fell by the sword and were obliterated from the earth. 10 Now their fathers were watching, but afterwards they were tied up in the depths of the earth until the great day of judgment when there will be condemnation on all who have corrupted their ways and their actions before the Lord. 11 He obliterated all from their places; there remained no one of them whom he did not judge for all their wickedness.
Date: 150-100 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Different from verses 4-5 (and Jude 6, which follows it at this point), these verses do not use the language of burial and underworld. Valleys play an important part of the penal geography of the Book of Parables. Compare chapters. 53, 54, 56, 67. See also Jubilees 5:10, which paraphrases this passage. The repetitious language at the end of the verse is most closely paralleled in 16:1, where there are also textual problems ..."
Nickelsburg, George W. E.
A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108
(p. 225) Fortress Press, 2001
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