The Watchers and the corruption of all flesh
Agent: The Grigori / Watchers — Shemihazah, Azazel and the chiefs of tens
Source / date: 1 Enoch 6–11 and Jubilees 5 and 7; c. 3rd–2nd century BCE
Reference: Book of the Watchers
The closest text in the whole tradition to the premise of this section. Jubilees does not say humanity was corrupted. It says all flesh was — men, cattle, beasts, birds, everything that walks on the earth — and 1 Enoch names the teachers and lists what they taught.
Class: A canonical or near-canonical text states that an agent shaped living kinds.
What the texts actually say
Jubilees 5:2: “all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth.” Jubilees 7:24 repeats it. The corruption is explicitly not limited to the human line — it is stated as reaching the animal kingdoms, which is why this entry exists.
1 Enoch 7:5 has the giants turn against the creatures themselves: “they began to sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish.” And 1 Enoch 7–8 catalogues the curriculum: Azazel taught metalwork and weapons and cosmetics; Shemihazah taught spell-binding and the cutting of roots; Armaros taught the resolving of enchantments; Baraqijal astrology, Kokabiel the constellations, Ezequeel cloud-signs. Greek pharmakeia covers both drug-craft and sorcery, and the herb-lore is transmitted as a technical discipline — applied knowledge of what plants do, given to humans by beings who were not supposed to give it.
Reading it carefully
The temptation is to read “corrupted its way” as a genetic statement. The Hebrew and Greek idiom of “corrupting one’s way” is moral and behavioural in most of its other uses, and the older interpretive tradition takes it that way. The text does not contain a mechanism, and reading modern molecular biology into an idiom is exactly the error the Sitchin entry documents.
What can be said without stretching: this corpus asserts that non-human intelligences deliberately transferred technical knowledge to humans, and that the effect on the living world extended past humanity into the animal kinds. That is the claim, stated in the texts, filed as scripture, and neither inflated into genetics nor explained away.
The lineage that resulted — Nephilim, Gibborim, and the giant peoples after them — is catalogued in this app under Races and Named Giants, where each name carries the class of source it rests on.