10 Non-Human Beings the Book of Enoch Says Survived the Flood

10 Non-Human Beings the Book of Enoch Says Survived the Flood Number ten: Arakiel. In the oldest surviving manuscript tradition of the First Book of Enoch, preserved in the ancient Ge'ez language and translated into English by scholar Richard Laurence in eighteen twenty-one, a being named Arakiel appears among the two hundred Watchers who descended onto Mount Hermon before the flood. His name, derived from an Aramaic root meaning "earth of God," carries within it the contradiction that defines him: a celestial intelligence who chose the terrestrial, a being of light who pressed his hands into soil and decided to stay.