The canonical Book of Genesis mentions Enoch, the putative source of this revelation about the Elioud only in passing (as a long-lived ancestor of Noah),[3] and while it notes that Nephilim had children, it does not assign a name to them.
[5] Early fathers of the Christian church[6] of the first and second centuries, as well as the bodies that formed the modern Rabbinical Jewish canon[7][8] were aware of 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees in which these accounts were contained, and accepted the former as scripture, but by the 4th Century AD, due to a view of angels that held they could not engage in sexual intercourse, chose to omit these texts from the canon of Western Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism respectively.
[10] The language of 1 Enoch that references the race of Elioud precludes less literal readings of the term "sons of God", for example, by enumerating the names of particular angels who choose to have children with human women.
[11] In some readings of the non-canonical texts, the Nephilim are children whose father is an angel and whose mother is a human and they are the "giants" (also known as Gibborim) referred to in the canonical Book of Numbers.
[14] The 1913 translation of R.H. Charles of the Book of Jubilees 7:21–25[15] reads as follows (note that "Naphil" is an alternative transliteration form of "Nephilim"): There are possible references to the Elioud in the non-canonical Book of Giants, fragments of which were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but a definitive reading is difficult because no complete version of this text is available to modern researchers and the available fragments are in six different archaic languages.