the Watchers ‘because these had begun to mix with earthly women so that they became defiled’ (Jub. 4.22). Genesis’s expression ‘then he was no more because God took him’ (5.24) is interpreted to mean: ‘He was taken from human society, and we led him into the Garden of Eden for (his) greatness and honor. Now he is there writing down the judgment and condemnation of the world and all the wickedness of mankind. Because of him the flood water did not come on any of the land of Eden’ (4.23–24a). In Eden