The giant Mahway, an associate of Ohyah, is summoned to the assembly of the fallen angels and put under secret oath 'under pain of death' to approach Enoch, the "distinguished scribe" and "apostle from the south" (Milik, p. 307; "see" Jubilees 4:25-6), in order to obtain prophetic interpretation of their sons' ominous visions of what appears threateningly to them as an imminent catastrophe: "An oracle [I have come to ask you here," declares Mahway, after listening to Enoch's message to the people. "From you, a second time, ask for the oracle: [We shall listen to your words, all the "nephilim" of the earth also. If God is going to take away ... from the days of their fallen angels had wished to live to be 500 years old, Noah's age when his sons were born: 1 En 10:9-10; Gen 5:32; VanderKam (2008/1995), pp. 39-40.</ref> ... that they may be punished ... [we, of these portents, should like to know from you their explanation."