The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 6
However the book begins
talking about “The Watchers”,
the angels.
“Chapter 6,
1. And it came to pass when
the children of men had
multiplied that in those days
were born unto them beautiful
and comely daughters.
2. And the angels, the children
of the heaven, saw and lusted
after them and said to one
another, 'Come, let us choose
us wives from among the
children of men and beget us
children.'
3. And Semjâzâ, who was their
leader, said unto them, 'I fear
ye will not indeed agree to do
this deed and I alone shall
have to pay the penalty of a
great sin.'
4. And they all answered him
and said, 'Let us all swear an
oath and all bind ourselves by
mutual imprecations not to
abandon this plan but to do
this thing.'
5. Then sware they all together
and bound themselves by
mutual imprecations upon it.
6. And they were in all two
hundred who descended (in the
day 2