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Jubilees: A Commentary on the Book of Jubilees, Chapters 1–50, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jubilees—so called because of its concern with marking forty-nine-year periods (or “jubilees”) in Israel’s history—is an ancient rewriting of Genesis and the first part of Exodus from the point of view of an anonymous second-century BCE Jewish author. Its distinctive perspective-as well as its apparent popularity at Qumran-make it particularly important for any reconstruction of early Judaism....

The picture of these Watchers in Jubilees contrasts sharply with the one in 1 Enoch 6, where they decide on their own to leave heaven in order to mate with women. In Jubilees, God sends them on a positive mission to the earth. At some point, however, they did mingle with women. Jared’s son Enoch “testified to the Watchers who had sinned with the daughters of men because these had begun to mix with earthly women so that they became defiled. Enoch testified against all of them” (4:22). Jubilees 5:1
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