5 Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. (ENO) 6 But you were ⌈formerly⌉ spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. (ENO) 7 And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 15:5–7
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