THE ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE PROPHET ENOCH
THE ARAMAIC TEXT FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS 4Q201-4Q212
CHAPTER ONE
I Enoch 1:1-6
1 The words of blessing with which Enoch blessed the righteous elect who will be present on the day of tribulation to remove all the enemies, and the righteous will be delivered. And taking up his parable he said, Enoch, a just man to whom a vision from God was disclosed:
2 The vision of the Holy One and of heaven was shown to me, and from the words of the Watchers and the holy ones I heard it all; and because I heard from them, I knew and I understood everything; not for this generation, but for a far-off generation I shall speak. And concerning the elect I now say, and about them I took up my parable and said:
3 The Great Holy One shall come forth from His dwelling, and the everlasting God shall come down upon earth, and tread on Mount Sinai, and will be shown with His mighty army; and He will appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens. And all the Watchers will fear and they will be punished in hidden places among all the creatures of the earth; and all the creatures of the earth will quake, and trembling and great fear will take hold of them, unto the ends of the earth.
4 And the heights shall be shaken and fall and be dissolved, and the high mountains shall be laid low.
CHAPTER TWO
I Enoch 1:9-5:1
1 When He comes with the myriads of His holy ones, to execute judgement against all; and He will destroy all the wicked, and will convict all flesh, with regard to all their works of wickedness which they have committed in deed and in word, and with regard to all the proud and hard words which wicked sinners have spoken against Him. Consider all His work, and observe ye the works of the heavens, and the luminaries which do not change their courses in the stations of their lights, that all arise and set, each one of them in its order.
2 Observe ye the earth, and consider its works from the first one to the last one, that nothing at all changes, and everything is visible to you. Observe ye the signs of summer, and consider the signs of winter, that the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds pour down rain, and dew comes down upon it.
3 Observe all the trees that are seen by you that they wither and shed all their foliage, except fourteen trees whose foliage remains until two or three years pass.
4 Observe ye the signs of summer whereby the sun burns and glows; and ye seek shade and shelter before it on the burning earth; and ye are not able to tread on the ground or the rocks on account of the heat.
5 Observe and enjoy all trees; on all of them blossoms their foliage, and it is green on them, and all their fruit is brought forth in glorious pride. Praise ye and consider all these works; and understand that the living God, who lives for ever and ever, created all things.
CHAPTER THREE
I Enoch 2:1-5:6
1 And in their constellations they appear and do not transgress their appointed order. Observe ye the earth and consider its works, from the first to the last, that nothing at all changes, and everything is visible to you.
2 Observe ye the signs of summer; and dew descends upon it, and consider the signs of winter that the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds pour down rain. Observe that all trees wither and shed all their foliage except fourteen trees whose foliage remains, and they do not renew their foliage until two or three years pass.
3 Observe ye the signs of summer, that the sun burns and glows; and ye seek shade and shelter before it upon the burning earth; and ye are not able to tread on the dust or on the rocks on account of the heat.
4 Observe ye and enjoy all trees; on all of them their foliage blossoms green, and it covers the trees, and all their fruit is brought forth in glorious pride.
5 Praise ye and consider all these works, and understand that God who lives for ever and ever, created all these things. Year in year out they do not change their works but they all do His Word. But ye, ye changed your works and do not do His Word; but ye transgress against Him with great and hard words, with your unclean mouths against His magnificence. Oh, hard-hearted, you shall have no peace.
6 Then your days ye will curse, and the years of your life will perish; and the years of your destruction will be multiplied with an everlasting curse; and compassion and peace ye will not have.
7 Then your name shall be an eternal curse for all the righteous; and in you shall all the accursed be cursed; and all the sinners and the wicked shall swear by you, and to all sinners.
CHAPTER FOUR
I Enoch 5:9-6:4 & 6:7-8:1
1 The years of your joy will be multiplied in eternal gladness and peace all the days of your life. And it came to pass when the children of men multiplied in those days, there were born to them daughters, beautiful and fair.
2 And the Watchers, sons of heaven, saw them and desired them; and they said, one to another: Let us go and choose for ourselves wives from the daughters of men and beget for ourselves children. But Semihaza who was their chief said to them: I fear that you will not wish to do this deed; and I alone shall be guilty of a great sin. And they all answered and said to him: Let us all swear an oath, and all bind one another by it, that we shall not any of us turn aside from this counsel, until we do this deed;
3 Anan'el, thirteenth to him; S'taw'el, fourteenth to him; Samsi'el, fifteenth to him; Sahri'el, sixteenth to him; Tummi'el seventeenth to him; Turi'el, eighteenth to him; Yom'el, nineteenth to him; Y'haddi'el, twentieth to him. These are the chiefs of tens. Those two hundred and their leaders all took for themselves wives from all that they chose; and they began to go in to them, and to defile themselves with them and they began to teach them sorcery and spellbinding and the cutting of roots; and to show them plants.
4 And they became pregnant by them and bore giants, three thousand cubits high, who were born and multiplied on the earth according to the kind of their childhood, and growing up according to the kind of their adolescence, and they were devouring the labor of all the children of men and men were unable to supply them. But the giants conspired to slay men and to devour them.
5 And they began to sin against all birds and beasts of the earth, and reptiles which creep upon the face of the earth, and creatures in the waters and in the heaven, and the fish of the sea, and to devour the flesh of another; and they were drinking blood. Then the earth made the accusation against the wicked concerning everything which was done upon it.
6 Asa'el taught men to make swords of iron and breastplates of brass, and he showed them metals which are dug out, and how they should work gold to fashion it apt for uses, and concerning silver, to fashion it for bracelets, and for other adornments of women. And he showed to women concerning antimony, and concerning eye-shadow, and concerning all precious stones, and concerning dye-stuffs.
CHAPTER FIVE
I Enoch 6:4-8:1
1 And they answered, all of them, and said to him: Let us all swear an oath and all bind one another that we shall not any of us turn aside from this counsel until we do this deed. Then they all swore together and bound one another by imprecations. And they were all of these two hundred who came down in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon; and they called the mount Hermon because they swore and bound one another by imprecations upon it.
2 And these are the names of their leaders: Semihazah who was their chief; Ar'taqoph, the second to him; Ramt'el, third to him; Kokab'el, fourth to him; -'el, fifth to him; Ra'm'el, sixth to him; Dani'el, seventh to him; Zeqi'el, eighth to him; Baraq'el, ninth to him; Asa'el, tenth to him; Hermoni, eleventh to him; Matar'el, twelfth to him; Anan'el, thirteenth to him; S'taw'el, fourteenth to him; Samsi'el, fifteenth to him; Sahri'el, sixteenth to him; Tummi'el, seventeenth to him; Turi'el, eighteenth to him; Yomi'el, nineteenth to him; Y'haddi'el, twentieth to him.
3 These are the chiefs of the chiefs of tens. Those two hundred and their leaders all took for themselves wives from all that they chose; and they began to go in to them, and to defile themselves with them and they began to teach them sorcery and spell-binding, and the cutting the roots; and they showed them herbs. And they became pregnant by them and bare giants three thousand cubits high who were born and multiplied on the earth according to the kind of their childhood, and growing up according to the kind of their adolescence, and they were devouring the labor of all the sons of men and men were unable to supply them.
4 But the giants conspired to slay men, and to devour them. And they began to sin and to ... against all birds and beasts of the earth, and reptiles which creep upon the earth and creatures in the waters, and in the heaven, and the fish of the sea, and to devour the flesh of one another, and they were drinking blood. Then the earth made the accusation against the wicked, concerning everything which was done upon it. Asa'el taught men to make ...
CHAPTER SIX
I Enoch 6:7
And these are the names of their leaders. Semihazah, who was their chief; Ar'taqoph, the second to him; Ram'el, third to him; Kokab'el, fourth to him; -'el, fifth to him; Ra'm'el, sixth to him; Dani'el, seventh to him; Zeqi'el, eighth to him; Baraq'el, ninth to him; Asa'el, tenth to him; and Hermoni, eleventh to him; Matar'el, twelfth to him; Anan'el, thirteenth to him; Snaw'el, fourteenth to him; Samsi'el, fifteenth to him; Sahri'el, sixteenth to him; Tummi'el, seventeenth to him; Turi'el, eighteenth to him; Yom'el, nineteenth to him; Yehaddi'el, twentieth to him. These are their chiefs of tens.
CHAPTER SEVEN
I Enoch 8:2-9:4
1 And there was much wickedness and men were acting wickedly and erring in all their ways. Semihazah taught spell-binding and cutting of roots. Hermoni taught the loosing of spells, magic, sorcery and skills. Baraq'el taught the signs of thunders. Kokab'el taught the signs of the stars. Zeqi'el taught the signs of lightning-flashes. -el taught the signs of ...
2 Ar'taqoph taught the signs of the earth. Samsi'el taught the signs of the sun. Sahri'el taught the signs of the moon. And they all began to reveal secrets to their wives. And because part of mankind was perishing from the earth, the cry was going up to heaven.
3 Thereupon Micha'el and Sari'el and Rapha'el and Gabri'el looked down from the sanctuary of heaven upon the earth, and saw much blood spilled on the earth; and the whole earth was filled with wickedness and violence so that sin was brought upon it. And four archangels hearing it went in and said to themselves that the voice and cry, as the sons of earth perish, reach up to the gates of heaven. And they said to the holy ones of heaven:
4 Now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men are making their suit and saying: Bring our case before the Most High, and our destruction before the majestic Glory, before the Lord of all Lords in majesty.
5 And Rapha'el and Micha'el, great Watchers and holy ones, went in and said before the Lord of the world that Thou art our great Lord; Thou art Lord of the world; Thou art Lord of Lords and God of Gods and King of worlds. Thy glorious throne is for every generation of generations which are from eternity, and Thy Name is holy, and great and blessed to all eternity, and Thy glory is sacred and exists to all eternity.
CHAPTER EIGHT
I Enoch 8:3-9:3, 6-8
1 Semi-hazah taught spell-binding and cutting of roots. Hermoni taught the loosing of spells, magic, sorcery, and skill. Baraq'el taught the signs of thunders. Kokab'el taught the signs of the stars. Zeq'el taught the signs of lightning-flashes. Ar'taqoph taught the signs of the earth. Samsi'el taught the signs of the sun. Sahri'el taught the signs of the moon.
2 And they all began to reveal secrets to their wives. And because part of mankind was perishing from the earth, their cry was going up to heaven. Thereupon Micha'el and Sari'el and Rapha'el and Gabri'el looked down from the sanctuary of heaven upon the earth, and saw much blood spilled on the earth and the whole earth was filled with wickedness and violence, so that sin was brought upon it.
3 And the four archangels hearing it went in and said to themselves that the voice and cry, as the sons of earth perish, reach up to the gates of heaven. And they said to the holy ones of heaven: Now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men are making their suit and saying: Bring our cause before the Most High.
4 Asa’el taught all unrighteousness on the earth, and all deceit on the dry land. And he made known the eternal mysteries which were kept in heaven, so that the experts among the sons of man should practice them. And Thou seest what hath done Semi-hazah to whom Thou hast given authority to be king over all his companions. And they have gone to the daughters of men of the earth, and slept with them, having defiled themselves by females.
CHAPTER NINE
I Enoch 10:3-4
Instruct the righteous man what he is to do, and the son of Lamech how to preserve his soul unto life, and to escape forever. And from him will be planted a plant and it will be established for all the generations of worlds. And to Raphael the Lord said: Do go, Raphael, and bind Asa'el hand and foot and cast him into the darkness.
CHAPTER TEN
I Enoch 10:8-12
1 Unto Asa’el shall be ascribed all sins. And to Gabriel the Lord said: Go to the bastards and the children of fornication, and destroy the children of the Watchers from among men, and send them into a war of destruction; and length of days they will not have. And no request from their fathers on their behalf shall be granted that they should expect to live an eternal life or that each of them should live for five hundred years.
2 And to Michael the Lord said: Go Michael, and make known to Semihaza and to all his companions who associated with women to defile themselves with them in their uncleanness, that their sons shall perish, and they shall see the destruction of their beloved ones; and bind them unto seventy generations in valleys of the earth unto the great day of their judgement.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
I Enoch 10:13-19 & 12:3
1 They will be led off to the abyss of fire and unto torture and to everlasting confinement in prison. And everyone who is condemned, will be lost from now on; with them they will be bound until annihilation of their generation; and at the time of judgement which I God shall judge, they will perish for all generations.
2 Destroy all the spirits of the bastards and the sons of the Watchers, because they made men to act wickedly. And destroy iniquity from the face of the earth, and let every deed of wickedness disappear; and let the plant of righteousness appear; and it shall become a blessing, and deeds of righteousness shall be planted forever with joy. And now all the righteous shall escape and they shall be alive until they beget thousands; and all the days of your youth and of your old age shall be completed in peace.
3 Then all the earth shall be tilled in righteousness, and it shall all be planted with trees and be filled with blessing. And all the trees of the earth which they desire shall be planted in it; and they shall plant gardens in it and every garden which will be planted in it shall produce a thousand jars of wine, and of every seed which will be sown in it every single se’ah shall produce a thousand se’ahs.
4 And I Enoch began to bless the Lord of Majesty and King of the ages, and behold, the great holy Watcher called me.
CHAPTER TWELVE
I Enoch 10:21-11:1 & 12:4-6
1 And all the sons of men shall become righteous, and all of them shall be offering adoration, and every nation shall be praising me and shall prostrate itself.
2 And the whole earth shall be cleansed from all defilement and from all impurity. And I will never again send upon them any wrath nor castigation for all generations of worlds.
3 And then I will open ... Ye have wrought great devastation on the earth; and ye shall have no peace nor have forgiveness of sin.
4 And concerning those in whom they delight themselves, concerning their children, the murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their sons shall they lament.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
I Enoch 13:6-14:16
1 I Enoch wrote out their petition with all their requests concerning all their souls, with regard to every one of their deeds individually and concerning all they were requesting, that theirs might be forgiveness and length of life.
2 And I went on sitting by the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, which is to the south of Hermonin, on their west side; and I read the book of the account of their requests until I fell asleep. And behold, dreams came down upon me, and visions fell upon me until I lifted up my eyelids to the gates of the palace of Heaven; and I saw a vision of the wrath of chastisement, and a voice came and said: Speak to the sons of heaven to reprimand them.
3 And when I awoke I went unto them and they were all assembled together and sitting and weeping in Abel-Mayya, which is between Lebanon and Senir, with their faces covered. And I spoke before them all the visions which I had seen in dreams, and I began to speak in words of truth and vision and reprimand to the heavenly Watchers.
4 The book of the words of truth and reprimand of the Watchers who were from eternity, according to what the Great Holy One commanded in the dream which I dreamt.
5 And in this vision saw in my dream what I now say with tongue of flesh, with the breath of my mouth, which the Great One has given to the sons of men, to speak with them and to understand in their heart. As God has decreed and created the sons of men to understand words of knowledge, so He has decreed and made and created me to reprimand the Watchers, the sons of heaven.
6 I wrote down the petition of you, Watchers, and in a vision it appeared to me that your petition will not be executed for you for all the days of eternity; and judgement will be by decision and decree against you, that from now on to heaven you will not return and not ascend throughout all ages, and among the prisoners of the earth, a judgement has been decreed, to bind you until all the days of eternity; and that first you will see that for destruction are all your beloved ones and all their sons, and the possessions of your beloved ones and of their sons you will not enjoy for yourselves; and before you they will fall upon the sword of destruction, because your petition concerning them will not be executed for you, just as it will not be executed for yourselves; and ye will be petitioning and requesting ... and you will not be speaking any word from the writing which I have written.
7 And to me in the vision it thus appeared. Behold, clouds in the vision were calling me, and cloud-mists to me were shouting, and lightning-flashes and thunders were hastening me up and ... me, and winds in the vision made me to fly, and took me upwards and brought me up and made me enter into heaven. And I entered it until I drew near to the walls of a building built with hail-stones and tongues of fire were surrounding them all around, and they began to fill me with fear and to ... me. And I entered among those tongues of fire, until I drew near to a great house built with hailstones; and the walls of this house were like stone slabs, and all of them were made of snow, and the floor was built of snow.
8 And the ceiling was like lightning-flashes and like thunders; and among them fiery cherubim, and their heaven was of water. And a burning fire surrounded all their walls all around them, and the gates were of burning fire. And I entered into that house which was hot like fire, and cold as snow; and there was no pleasure of life in it; and behold, fear covered me and trembling seized me.
9 And I was shaken and trembling and I fell on my face; and it was shown to me in my vision. And behold I saw another door which opened before me, and another house which was greater than this, and all of it was built with tongues of fire. And all of it far surpassed the other in splendor and glory and majesty that I am unable to describe to you its splendor and majesty. And its floor was of fire and its upper part was of thunders and lightning-flashes, and its ceiling was of burning fire. And it was shown to me and I saw in it a lofty throne, and its appearance ...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
I Enoch 14:4-6
In my vision, it appeared that your petition will not be executed for you for all the days of eternity, and judgement will be by decision and decree against you, that from now on to heaven you will not return and not ascend throughout all ages, and among the prisoners of the earth a judgement has been decreed, to bind you until all the days of eternity; and that first you will see that for destruction are all your beloved ones and all their sons, and the possessions of your beloved ones and of their sons you will not enjoy for yourselves; and before you they will fall upon the sword of destruction.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
I Enoch 14:18-20 & 15:11
The throne was like crystal-glass, and its wheels were like the disc of the shining sun, and its sides were cherubim. And from beneath the throne came forth streams of fire, and I could not look. Great Majesty sat upon this throne, and His raiment was brighter than the sun and whiter than much snow. And the spirits of giants oppress, attack and work destruction on earth.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
I Enoch 18:8-12
The top of the throne was of sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire, and beyond those mountains there is a region on the other side of the great earth, and there the heavens are completed. Then I was shown a deep abyss, between pillars of heavenly fire, and I saw in it columns of fire descending to the bottom, and they were beyond measuring, both in their depth and in their height. And beyond that abyss ...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
I Enoch 22:3-7
1 These hollow places have been created for the souls of all the children of men.
2 And behold, these are the pits for their place of incarceration; they have been fashioned in this manner until the day they will be judged, and until the time of the Day of the End of the Great Judgement which will be exacted of them.
3 There I saw the spirit of a dead man making accusation, and his lamentation ascending up to heaven, and crying out unceasingly and making accusation.
4 Then I asked Raphael the Watcher and Holy One who was with me and I said to him: This spirit making accusation, whose is it, that in this manner his lamentation is ascending and crying out unceasingly and making accusation to heaven.
5 And he answered me, saying: Behold, this is the spirit that went forth from Abel whom his brother Cain slew.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
I Enoch 22:13-24:1
1 Hence those who suffer affliction there, being punished less in regard to their spirits, they will not be afflicted, with greater damage, in the day of judgement, away from there, nor will they be transferred permanently from there'. Then I blessed the Lord of Majesty and said:
2 Blessed be the Judgement of Righteousness, and blessed be the Lord of Majesty and of Righteousness who is the Lord of the world. And from there I was transported to another place, westwards of the ends of the earth, and I was shown fire which runs here and there, neither resting nor halting in its running behind by day or by night, yet at the same time remaining constant.
3 And I asked and said: What is this which never pauses? And Ra'u'el answered me: This is its function, that this fire whose running is to the west, follows as a shepherd all the luminaries of heaven.' And he showed me mountains, and the ground between them was of burning fire, glowing during the night.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
I Enoch 25:7-27:1
1 Blessed be the King of the world which stands before Him, Who prepares such things for men if they are righteous; and these things He has created and promised to give to them. And from thence I was translated to the center of the earth, and I saw a blessed place in which were trees whose branches bloomed with everlasting blossom. And there I was shown a holy mountain, and proceeding forth from beneath the mountain, water, from the East, and going down towards the South.
2 And I saw to the East another mountain higher than it, and between them a deep valley which was without breadth, with water proceeding forth from beneath the mountain. And to the West of it another mountain lower than it but without height, and a deep and dry valley underneath it and between these mountains, and there was another valley at the foot of these three mountains. And all the valleys were deep and of hard rock, and no tree was planted in them.
3 And I marveled at the mountains and I marveled at the valleys, and I marveled exceedingly. Then I said: Why is this land blessed, and all of it full of trees.
CHAPTER TWENTY
I Enoch 28:3-29:2 & 31:2-32:3
1 Flowing like a copious aqueduct approximately to the Northwest, it brought from everywhere water and dew as well. From thence I went to another place which was in the desert and I withdrew far to the East of this part. And there I saw wild trees which were exuding perfumes of incense and myrrh.
2 ... in it full of nectar, and it is like the bark of the almond tree. When incisions are made in these trees there comes forth from them a pleasant odor; when their bark is ground, they are sweeter than any fragrance.
3 And beyond these mountains approximately northwards, on their eastern side, I was shown other mountains plentiful with choice nard, mastic, cardamom, and pepper.
4 And from thence I proceeded to the East of all these mountains, far from them, to the East of the earth, and I was conveyed over the Red Sea and withdrew far from it, and I crossed over the darkness, far from it. And I passed on to the Paradise of righteousness.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
I Enoch 30:1-32:1
1 And beyond these mountains I proceeded very far to the east, and I saw another vast place, valleys of great waters, in which were sweet smelling reeds like mastic, and on the banks of these valleys I saw the fragrant cinnamon; and beyond these valleys, I proceeded far eastwards.
2 And I was shown other mountains, and also in them I saw trees from which came the resin which is called styrax and galbanum.
3 And beyond these mountains I was shown another mountain to the east of the limits of the earth and all the trees in it were filled with ... and it was like the bark of the almond tree.
4 When incisions are made in these trees there comes forth from them a pleasant odor; when these barks are ground, they are sweeter than any fragrance.
5 And beyond these mountains, approximately to the north-east of them, I was shown other mountains.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
I Enoch 32:3, 6 & 33:3-34:1
1 And I was shown from afar trees in it, trees exceedingly numerous and great, differing the one from the other.
2 And I saw there a tree which was different from all, very great and beautiful and magnificent ... your father of old and your mother of old, and they learnt knowledge, and their eyes were opened, and they understood that they were naked.
3 … Uri'el, one of the Watchers. And he showed me and wrote down everything for me; also he wrote for me their names according to the resemblance to their fixed times. And from thence I was transferred to the North of the ends of the earth, and I was shown great wonders.
I Enoch 35 & 36:1-4
4 And I saw portals open in heaven, such as I have seen in the East ... their number. Then from thence I was transported to the South of the limits of the earth, and there I was shown their three portals open, for the south wind, for dew and rain and for ... And from thence I was transported to the East of the limits of the earth and there I was shown their three portals, open to the East, and above them small gates, from every single one of which the stars of heaven come forth and go to the West on the paths which are fitting for them. And as often as I was looking at all these things I was saying blessings every time. Then I shall continue blessing the Lord of Majesty.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
I Enoch 76:3-10
1 ... and three gates after those on the north, and three after those on the west.
2 And through four of these come forth winds which are for the healing of the earth, and for its revival. And through eight of these come forth harmful winds; when they are sent, they destroy all the earth and the waters and all that is in them which grows and flourishes and creeps in the waters and on the dry land, and all men who live in it. And first of all, the east wind comes through the first gate which is in the east, and it inclines to the south; and from it comes destruction, drought, heat, and desolation.
3 And through the second gate, the middle one, comes forth the east-east wind: rain and fruitfulness and revival and dew. And through the third gate comes forth the east-north wind which is nigh the north wind; cold and drought.
4 And after them from three gates which are towards the south of the heavens; there comes forth, first of all, through the first gate a south wind which is in the south, inclining to the east: a hot wind. And through the second gate comes forth a south wind which they call the South, bringing dew and rain, well-being and revival. And by the third gate comes forth a southwest wind, bringing dew and rain and locusts and destruction. And after it comes forth a north wind and destruction.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
I Enoch 76:13-77:4
1 Through the last portal that adjoins the south come forth drought and destruction and death and heat and desolation.
2 And the twelve gates of the four quarters of heaven are completely described; their complete explanation I have shown to you, my son Methuselah.
3 And they call the east East because it is the first; and they call the south South because the Great One dwells there, and in it dwells ... blessed forever.
4 And the great quarter they call the West quarter, because there go the stars of heaven; there they set and there all stars enter. And for this reason they call it West. And the north they call North, because in it all the vessels of the heavens hide and gather together and revolve, and proceed to the east of the heavens.
5 And the east they call East because from there arise the bodies of the heavens; and also they call it mizrah because thence they arise.
6 And I saw three sections of the earth: one of them was for the dwelling of the sons of men in it; and one of them for all the seas, and the rivers; and one of them for the deserts and for the Seven and for the Paradise of righteousness.
7 And I saw seven mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth; and snow comes down upon them.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
I Enoch 78:6-8
And when the moon rises, the half of one seventh part of its light shines in the heavens, to appear above the earth; and its light is more and more complete each day until the fourteenth day, and in it all its light is complete. And its light waxes by fifteen parts, and its light is more and more complete each day until the fifteenth day, and in it all its light is complete; and it guides its phases by halves of sevenths. And in her waning the moon decreases from its light. On the first day it has fourteen parts, and on the second day thirteen parts, and on the third day twelve parts, and on the fourth day eleven parts.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
I Enoch 78:9-12
And Uri'el demonstrated to me a further calculation, by having shown it unto me that ... its light in heaven. And the first days they are called new moons, because ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
I Enoch 78:17-79:5
And as for the waning of the moon which takes place through the sixth gate, through it its light is accomplished ... twenty-five weeks and two days. And she falls behind the sun ... is restored in it. It looks then as an image of vision when its light is retarded in it. In the night this appearance looks a little as if it was the image of a man; and in the day this appearance looks a little like the sun in the sky, and there is nothing else in her save her light only. And now I show to you, my son, another calculation;
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
I Enoch 82:9-13
With regard to their Zodiacal periods, their new moons, their daily signs. And these are the names; and according to their authority with regard to all their stations. Four leaders ... and for three hundred and sixty-four days there are chiefs of thousands ... dividing the days ... And these are the names:
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
I Enoch 82:20
1 The clouds which make dew and rain falling upon the earth; and seed herbs of the earth and trees. And the sun rises and sets and winter comes. And leaves of all the trees wither and fall down except fourteen trees for which it is not fitting; their leaves remain.
2 ... this ... from its measure ... a tenth part of a ninth part ... a tenth part of a ninth part. And the stars move through the first gates of the heavens; and then they come forth. On first days, one tenth by one sixth; on second days, one fifteenth by one sixth; on third days, one thirtieth by one sixth.
3 On the fifteenth day ... in the same day ... only in this night from ... third part of a ninth part. And five ... and a tenth part of a ninth part.
CHAPTER THIRTY
I Enoch 86:1-3
And again I kept my eyes up in the dream and I saw the heaven above, and behold, a star fell from heaven into the midst of the big oxen; and it fed and pastured among them. Behold, then I saw these oxen, big ones and black ones, and behold, all of them exchanged their pastures and their cattle-sheds, and their calves, and they began to live one with another. And again I saw in my dream and beheld the heaven and behold many stars were descending and falling from heaven to near the first star, and they were turned into bulls in the midst of those calves and pastured with them and among them.
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
I Enoch 88:3-89:6
1 And when I was looking in my dream and, behold, to one of the four who had come forth it was ordered by Heaven; and all the many stars, whose privy members were like those of horses, he bound all of them hand and foot and cast them into the depths of the earth.
2 And one of the four went to one of the white oxen and instructed him; and he made for himself a ship, and dwelt inside it; and the three oxen entered with him into the ship, and the ship was covered and roofed over them, And I was looking and, behold, seven sluices pouring out on the earth much water.
3 And, behold, the underground chambers were opened in the interior of the earth and waters began to pour out and come upon it. And I was looking until the earth was covered by the waters and by darkness and mist, and they were standing upon it. And the oxen were submerged and engulfed and perishing in those waters. And the ship floated above the waters, and all the oxen and wild asses and camels and elephants sank in the waters.
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
I Enoch 89:7-16
1 And again I watched in my dream until those sluices were closed from that lofty roof, and the fissures of the underground chambers were stopped, and other underground chambers were opened.
2 And the waters began going down into the midst of these until the waters vanished from above the earth, and the earth appeared, and the vessel settled on the earth; and the darkness retired and light came. And behold the white ox, and the three oxen with him came forth from that vessel.
3 And there was born among them a white bull. And all these animals began to bite and to chase one another, and the white bull begat a wild ass and a white bull-calf together, and the wild asses multiplied. And the white bull-calf which was sired by the white bull begat a black wild boar and a white ram of the flock and the boar begat many wild boars, and the ram begat twelve sheep.
4 And when they had grown, they gave a sheep from them to the wild asses, and the wild asses gave up that sheep to the wolves and that sheep grew up among the wolves. And the ram led forth all of the eleven sheep to live and to pasture with it beside the wolves and they multiplied and became a flock of many sheep.
5 And the wolves began to oppress the flock till they had cast each one of their young into a great stream to sink in the waters. Then the sheep began to cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to complain to their Lord.
6 And a sheep which had been preserved from the wolves fled and came to the wild asses and I watched, while the flock lamented and cried terribly till the Lord of the sheep descended.
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
I Enoch 89:11-14
And they began to bite and to chase one another; and the white bull which was born among them begat a wild ass and a white bull-calf as well, and the wild asses multiplied. And this white bull-calf which was sired by the white bull begat a black wild boar and a white ram of the flock and the wild boar begat many wild boars and the ram begat twelve sheep. And when those twelve sheep had grown they gave one of them to the wild asses, and the wild asses gave up that sheep to wolves, and the sheep grew up among wolves. And the ram led forth all of the eleven sheep.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
I Enoch 89:26-30
1 The sea gathered the waters, and it arose until it covered the wolves.
2 And I looked until all the wolves who were pursuing that flock perished, sinking and drowning, and the waters covered them over. But the flock departed from those waters, and they came to a wilderness, a place where there was no water or grass, and their eyes were opened and they saw.
3 And I looked until the Lord of the sheep was pasturing them and He gave them water to drink and grass to eat. And the sheep ascended to the summit of a certain high rock, and the Lord of the flock sent him to the flock, and they all stood at a distance. Then I looked and, behold, the Lord of the flock stood facing the flock and his appearance was strong.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
I Enoch 89:29-31
And that sheep went up to the summit of a high rock, and the Lord of the sheep sent him to the flock, and they all stood at a distance. Then I saw and behold, the Lord of the sheep stood facing the flock, and his appearance was strong and great and fearful; and all the flock saw Him and were afraid before Him. And all of them were trembling and fearful before Him.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
I Enoch 89:31-37
1 And they all were afraid and trembling before Him, and they cried to the Sheep who was the second in command to Him, who was among them: We are not able to stand before the Lord.
2 Thereupon that Sheep that led them went up again for a second time to the summit of that rock. But the flock began to go blind and to stray from the way which had been shown them: but the Sheep did not know about these happenings.
3 And the Lord of the flock was filled with great wrath against the flock and that Sheep knew it and came down from the summit of that rock; and he came to the flock, and found all the majority of them blinded and straying. And when they saw him, they began to fear before him, and desired to return to their folds. And the Sheep took other sheep with him and came to the flock; and they slaughtered everyone that had gone astray; and they began to fear before him.
4 Then that Sheep restored all the straying flock to their folds. And when the straying flock had returned to their folds that Sheep set about reproaching and slaying and punishing everyone who swore by the name of the golden calf.
5 And I watched in this dream until that Sheep was changed and become a man and made a Tabernacle for the Lord of the flock; and he brought all the flock to that Tabernacle. And I watched until that Sheep who was associated with the first Sheep fell asleep.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
I Enoch 89:43-44
And that ram began to butt with his horns and to pursue with his horns and to strike hard the foxes, and thereafter the wild boars, and he destroyed many wild boars and thereafter let the dogs go free. And the sheep whose eyes were opened beheld that ram of the flock, until he deserted his way and began to strike the flock, to trample it down, and to depart out of a good way.
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
I Enoch 91:10, 18-19 & 92:1-2
1 And the righteous shall awake from their sleep. Wisdom shall arise and go, and be given to them, and to Him will they give praise. The earth shall rest from the sword for all generations forever.
2 And now I am speaking unto you, my sons, and I will tell you all the ways of righteousness and all the ways of violence, and I will show you again in order that you may know what will happen.
3 And now, my sons, hearken to me and choose the paths of righteousness to walk in them, and keep away from the paths of violence, from walking in them, because everyone who has walked in the way of wickedness will be utterly destroyed.
4 That which Enoch wrote and gave to Methuselah his son and to all his brothers,—Enoch the scribe of distinction and the wisest of men and chosen of the sons of earth to judge their deeds,—he wrote it also to his sons of sons and to the future generations, to all who dwell on the dry land, in order to do good and peace: Be ye not in distress, ye and your spirits, on account of the times, because the Great Holy One has given times for everything.
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
I Enoch 91:11-17 & 93:9-10
1 And all its deeds shall be done in apostasy. And with its end there shall be chosen the elect, for witnesses to righteousness, from the eternal plant of righteousness, to whom shall be given sevenfold wisdom and knowledge. And they will have rooted out the foundations of violence and the structure of falsehood therein, to execute judgement.
2 And thereafter shall arise the eighth Week, that of righteousness, in which a sword shall be given to all the righteous, to exact a righteous judgement from all the wicked, and they shall be delivered into their hands. And with its end they shall acquire riches in righteousness, and there shall be built the royal Temple of the Great One in His glorious splendor, for all generations forever.
3 And thereafter the ninth Week, and righteousness and right judgement will be revealed in it for all the children of the whole earth; and all the workers of impiety shall entirely pass away from the whole earth, and they will be cast into the eternal Pit, and all men shall see the right, eternal way.
4 And thereafter the tenth Week, in the seventh part of which an eternal Judgement and the fixed time of the Great Judgement shall be executed in vengeance, in the midst of the Holy Ones. And the first heaven in it end of the tenth Week shall pass away, and a new heaven shall appear, and all the powers of heaven shall rise for all eternity with sevenfold brightness.
5 And after this there will be many weeks to whose number there shall be no end forever, in which they shall work good and righteousness.
CHAPTER FORTY
I Enoch 92:5-93:4
1 And sin shall perish in darkness forever and shall never be visible again from this day forth for all generations forever. And when he was transmitting his Epistle, Enoch took up his discourse, saying:
2 Concerning the children of righteousness and about the elect of the world who have grown up from a plant of truth and of justice, behold, I will speak and will make it known unto you, my sons.
3 I Enoch, I have been shown everything in a heavenly vision, and from the word of the Watchers and Holy Ones I have known everything; and in the heavenly tablets I have read everything and understood. And Enoch took up his discourse again and said:
4 I Enoch, the seventh I was born in the first Week, and until my time justice was still enduring. And after me will arise the second Week in which lying and violence will have sprung up.
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
I Enoch 93:11-94:2
1 Who is the man who can understand the command of God? And who is there of all the children of men who can hear the words of the Holy One and not be troubled, or can think His thoughts?
2 Or who is the man who can behold all the works of heaven, or the corner-pillars upon which the heaven rests; and who can see a soul or a spirit and can return from there to tell it, or ascend and see the whole community of spirits and think and act like them? Or who is there from the children of men who is able to know and measure what is the length and the breadth of the whole earth; or who is there to whom is shown all its ... and its shape?
3 Or what man is there who can know the length of the heaven and what is its height, or how it is supported; and how great is the number of the stars? And now to you I say, my sons, love righteousness, and walk in it, for the ways of righteousness are worthy to be accepted, but the ways of wickedness shall be destroyed and vanish.
4 And to the sons of men ...
5 And the moon shines during the rest of this night with three seventh parts; and it waxes during this day up to four sevenths and a half.
6 And then it sets and enters the same gate as before, and it is covered, the rest of this day, to two sevenths and a half. And in night twenty-four of this month it is covered by four sevenths and a half; and there is subtracted from its light four sevenths and a half. And then it emerges from the same gate and shines during the rest of this night with two sevenths and a half; it waxes during this day up to five sevenths. And then it sets and enters the same gate and it is covered, the rest of this day, to two sevenths of its light.
7 And at the beginning of night twenty-five of this month, the moon is covered to five seventh parts of its light, i.e. five seventh parts are subtracted from its light. And then it emerges from the same gate as on the preceding days and shines during the rest of this night with two seventh parts of its light; and it waxes during this day up to five sevenths and a half of its light. And then it sets and enters the second gate and it is covered during the rest of this day to one seventh part and a half of its light.
8 And during night twenty-six of this month it is covered to five sevenths and a half; and there is subtracted from its light five sevenths and a half. And then it emerges from the second gate, and it shines during the rest of this night with a seventh and a half, and it waxes during this day up to six sevenths. And then it sets and enters the second gate and it is covered, the rest of this day, to one seventh.
9 And during night twenty-seven of this month it is covered to six sevenths; there is subtracted from its light six sevenths. And then it emerges from the second gate and it shines, the rest of this night, with one seventh. And it waxes during this day up to six sevenths and a half. And then it sets and enters.
10 And the moon shines in night eight of this month with four sevenths. And then it sets and enters the same gate as before. During this night the sun completes the passage across all the sections of the first gate, and it begins again to go and to come out through these sections, i.e. of the first gate. And then the moon sets and enters the same gate. And it wanes during the rest of this night by three sevenths. And it waxes during this day up to four sevenths and a half. And then it emerges from the same gate as before and it keeps during the rest of this day two seventh parts of its light and a half.
11 And it shines during night nine of this month with four sevenths and a half. And then it sets and enters the gate. During this night the sun begins again to move away through its sections, i.e. of the first gate, and to set through these sections. And then the moon sets and enters the fifth gate and it wanes during the rest of this night by two sevenths and a half.
12 And it waxes during this day up to five sevenths, and its light is equivalent exactly to five sevenths. And then it emerges from the fifth gate and it keeps, during the rest of this day, two sevenths. And it shines in night ten of this month with five sevenths. And then it sets and enters the fifth gate. And it wanes the rest of this night, by two sevenths. And it waxes during this day up to five sevenths and a half.
13 And in night twenty-eight of this month, the moon is covered by six sevenths and a half, and there is subtracted from its light six sevenths and a half. And then it emerges from the same door as before and it shines during the rest of this night with a half of a seventh part. And it waxes during this day to its entirety. And then it sets and enters the gate and it is covered during the rest of this day in its entirety and all the rest of its light is removed and its disc emerges, devoid of all light, hidden by the sun.
SEE APPENDIX I FOR ENOCH 97:6-107:3 FROM THE GREEK
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
I Enoch 104:13-106:2
1 And they will believe in them and be glad over them; and all the righteous will rejoice to learn from them all the ways of righteousness.
2 In those days the Lord appointed them the righteous over the children of earth, to read the books, and to testify with regard to them according to their wisdom, saying: Tell them about it wisdom, for you are to lead them, and you will receive your reward from all the children of earth. And you shall have all remuneration. Be glad ye, o children of righteousness.
3 And after a time I Enoch took a wife for Methuselah my son and she brought forth a son and called his name Lamech saying: Brought low, indeed, righteousness has been to this day.' And when he came to maturity, Methuselah took for him a wife, and she became pregnant by him and bore a boy.
4 And when the boy was born, his flesh was whiter than snow and redder than the rose, and all his hair was white as the pure wool, and thick and bright. And when he opened his eyes he lighted up the whole house as the sun.
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
I Enoch 106:13-107:2
1 Then I Enoch answered saying: Truly the Lord will restore His Law on the earth, according as I saw and told you my son that in the days of Jared my father Watchers transgressed the Word of the Lord and departed from the covenant of Heaven. And behold, they go on sinning and transgressing the custom and they perverted their nature to go unto women, and to sin with them, and married some of them, and women are begetting children, who are not like spiritual beings, but creatures of flesh.
2 And there shall be great wrath of God against the earth and Flood; and great destruction shall be done for one year. And this boy who has been born to you and his three children will be saved, when men die upon earth, Then, the earth shall be at rest, and be cleansed from great corruption.
3 And now say to Lamech: He is thy son in truth, and Pious call this boy who has been born, and Noah call his name, for he shall be your rest, wherein ye shall rest, and he shall be your salvation, for he will be saved, he and his sons, from the corruption of the earth—which will be caused by the deeds of all sinners, and by the wickedness of the sons of the earth—which shall be in his days. And thereafter shall come stronger wickedness than that which will be consummated in the days of Noah and his sons. For I know the mysteries of the Lord which the Holy Ones have told me and showed me, and which I read in the tablets of heaven.
4 And I saw written in them that generation after generation would do evil in this wise, and evil would be more and more until there arose generations of righteousness, and evil and wickedness should come to an end, and violence should cease from off the earth, and until good should come on the earth, upon them men. And now, go unto Lamech, thy son, and tell him that this boy is truly, and without deception, his son.
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
Book of Giants
... and all ... the vision ... was shown to Enoch the scribe of distinction ... children of Adam. Behold, the Great One.
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
Book of Giants
To inspect upon the earth all the children of Adam on account of the wickedness of the Giants which they have done upon the earth, for upon it blood was being shed, and falsehoods were being spoken, and impieties were being perpetrated upon it, all the days ... flood upon the earth. SEE APPENDIX II…
I Enoch 1:1-6
1 The words of blessing with which Enoch blessed the righteous elect who will be present on the day of tribulation to remove all the enemies, and the righteous will be delivered. And taking up his parable he said, Enoch, a just man to whom a vision from God was disclosed:
2 The vision of the Holy One and of heaven was shown to me, and from the words of the Watchers and the holy ones I heard it all; and because I heard from them, I knew and I understood everything; not for this generation, but for a far-off generation I shall speak. And concerning the elect I now say, and about them I took up my parable and said:
3 The Great Holy One shall come forth from His dwelling, and the everlasting God shall come down upon earth, and tread on Mount Sinai, and will be shown with His mighty army; and He will appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens. And all the Watchers will fear and they will be punished in hidden places among all the creatures of the earth; and all the creatures of the earth will quake, and trembling and great fear will take hold of them, unto the ends of the earth.
4 And the heights shall be shaken and fall and be dissolved, and the high mountains shall be laid low.
CHAPTER TWO
I Enoch 1:9-5:1
1 When He comes with the myriads of His holy ones, to execute judgement against all; and He will destroy all the wicked, and will convict all flesh, with regard to all their works of wickedness which they have committed in deed and in word, and with regard to all the proud and hard words which wicked sinners have spoken against Him. Consider all His work, and observe ye the works of the heavens, and the luminaries which do not change their courses in the stations of their lights, that all arise and set, each one of them in its order.
2 Observe ye the earth, and consider its works from the first one to the last one, that nothing at all changes, and everything is visible to you. Observe ye the signs of summer, and consider the signs of winter, that the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds pour down rain, and dew comes down upon it.
3 Observe all the trees that are seen by you that they wither and shed all their foliage, except fourteen trees whose foliage remains until two or three years pass.
4 Observe ye the signs of summer whereby the sun burns and glows; and ye seek shade and shelter before it on the burning earth; and ye are not able to tread on the ground or the rocks on account of the heat.
5 Observe and enjoy all trees; on all of them blossoms their foliage, and it is green on them, and all their fruit is brought forth in glorious pride. Praise ye and consider all these works; and understand that the living God, who lives for ever and ever, created all things.
CHAPTER THREE
I Enoch 2:1-5:6
1 And in their constellations they appear and do not transgress their appointed order. Observe ye the earth and consider its works, from the first to the last, that nothing at all changes, and everything is visible to you.
2 Observe ye the signs of summer; and dew descends upon it, and consider the signs of winter that the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds pour down rain. Observe that all trees wither and shed all their foliage except fourteen trees whose foliage remains, and they do not renew their foliage until two or three years pass.
3 Observe ye the signs of summer, that the sun burns and glows; and ye seek shade and shelter before it upon the burning earth; and ye are not able to tread on the dust or on the rocks on account of the heat.
4 Observe ye and enjoy all trees; on all of them their foliage blossoms green, and it covers the trees, and all their fruit is brought forth in glorious pride.
5 Praise ye and consider all these works, and understand that God who lives for ever and ever, created all these things. Year in year out they do not change their works but they all do His Word. But ye, ye changed your works and do not do His Word; but ye transgress against Him with great and hard words, with your unclean mouths against His magnificence. Oh, hard-hearted, you shall have no peace.
6 Then your days ye will curse, and the years of your life will perish; and the years of your destruction will be multiplied with an everlasting curse; and compassion and peace ye will not have.
7 Then your name shall be an eternal curse for all the righteous; and in you shall all the accursed be cursed; and all the sinners and the wicked shall swear by you, and to all sinners.
CHAPTER FOUR
I Enoch 5:9-6:4 & 6:7-8:1
1 The years of your joy will be multiplied in eternal gladness and peace all the days of your life. And it came to pass when the children of men multiplied in those days, there were born to them daughters, beautiful and fair.
2 And the Watchers, sons of heaven, saw them and desired them; and they said, one to another: Let us go and choose for ourselves wives from the daughters of men and beget for ourselves children. But Semihaza who was their chief said to them: I fear that you will not wish to do this deed; and I alone shall be guilty of a great sin. And they all answered and said to him: Let us all swear an oath, and all bind one another by it, that we shall not any of us turn aside from this counsel, until we do this deed;
3 Anan'el, thirteenth to him; S'taw'el, fourteenth to him; Samsi'el, fifteenth to him; Sahri'el, sixteenth to him; Tummi'el seventeenth to him; Turi'el, eighteenth to him; Yom'el, nineteenth to him; Y'haddi'el, twentieth to him. These are the chiefs of tens. Those two hundred and their leaders all took for themselves wives from all that they chose; and they began to go in to them, and to defile themselves with them and they began to teach them sorcery and spellbinding and the cutting of roots; and to show them plants.
4 And they became pregnant by them and bore giants, three thousand cubits high, who were born and multiplied on the earth according to the kind of their childhood, and growing up according to the kind of their adolescence, and they were devouring the labor of all the children of men and men were unable to supply them. But the giants conspired to slay men and to devour them.
5 And they began to sin against all birds and beasts of the earth, and reptiles which creep upon the face of the earth, and creatures in the waters and in the heaven, and the fish of the sea, and to devour the flesh of another; and they were drinking blood. Then the earth made the accusation against the wicked concerning everything which was done upon it.
6 Asa'el taught men to make swords of iron and breastplates of brass, and he showed them metals which are dug out, and how they should work gold to fashion it apt for uses, and concerning silver, to fashion it for bracelets, and for other adornments of women. And he showed to women concerning antimony, and concerning eye-shadow, and concerning all precious stones, and concerning dye-stuffs.
CHAPTER FIVE
I Enoch 6:4-8:1
1 And they answered, all of them, and said to him: Let us all swear an oath and all bind one another that we shall not any of us turn aside from this counsel until we do this deed. Then they all swore together and bound one another by imprecations. And they were all of these two hundred who came down in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon; and they called the mount Hermon because they swore and bound one another by imprecations upon it.
2 And these are the names of their leaders: Semihazah who was their chief; Ar'taqoph, the second to him; Ramt'el, third to him; Kokab'el, fourth to him; -'el, fifth to him; Ra'm'el, sixth to him; Dani'el, seventh to him; Zeqi'el, eighth to him; Baraq'el, ninth to him; Asa'el, tenth to him; Hermoni, eleventh to him; Matar'el, twelfth to him; Anan'el, thirteenth to him; S'taw'el, fourteenth to him; Samsi'el, fifteenth to him; Sahri'el, sixteenth to him; Tummi'el, seventeenth to him; Turi'el, eighteenth to him; Yomi'el, nineteenth to him; Y'haddi'el, twentieth to him.
3 These are the chiefs of the chiefs of tens. Those two hundred and their leaders all took for themselves wives from all that they chose; and they began to go in to them, and to defile themselves with them and they began to teach them sorcery and spell-binding, and the cutting the roots; and they showed them herbs. And they became pregnant by them and bare giants three thousand cubits high who were born and multiplied on the earth according to the kind of their childhood, and growing up according to the kind of their adolescence, and they were devouring the labor of all the sons of men and men were unable to supply them.
4 But the giants conspired to slay men, and to devour them. And they began to sin and to ... against all birds and beasts of the earth, and reptiles which creep upon the earth and creatures in the waters, and in the heaven, and the fish of the sea, and to devour the flesh of one another, and they were drinking blood. Then the earth made the accusation against the wicked, concerning everything which was done upon it. Asa'el taught men to make ...
CHAPTER SIX
I Enoch 6:7
And these are the names of their leaders. Semihazah, who was their chief; Ar'taqoph, the second to him; Ram'el, third to him; Kokab'el, fourth to him; -'el, fifth to him; Ra'm'el, sixth to him; Dani'el, seventh to him; Zeqi'el, eighth to him; Baraq'el, ninth to him; Asa'el, tenth to him; and Hermoni, eleventh to him; Matar'el, twelfth to him; Anan'el, thirteenth to him; Snaw'el, fourteenth to him; Samsi'el, fifteenth to him; Sahri'el, sixteenth to him; Tummi'el, seventeenth to him; Turi'el, eighteenth to him; Yom'el, nineteenth to him; Yehaddi'el, twentieth to him. These are their chiefs of tens.
CHAPTER SEVEN
I Enoch 8:2-9:4
1 And there was much wickedness and men were acting wickedly and erring in all their ways. Semihazah taught spell-binding and cutting of roots. Hermoni taught the loosing of spells, magic, sorcery and skills. Baraq'el taught the signs of thunders. Kokab'el taught the signs of the stars. Zeqi'el taught the signs of lightning-flashes. -el taught the signs of ...
2 Ar'taqoph taught the signs of the earth. Samsi'el taught the signs of the sun. Sahri'el taught the signs of the moon. And they all began to reveal secrets to their wives. And because part of mankind was perishing from the earth, the cry was going up to heaven.
3 Thereupon Micha'el and Sari'el and Rapha'el and Gabri'el looked down from the sanctuary of heaven upon the earth, and saw much blood spilled on the earth; and the whole earth was filled with wickedness and violence so that sin was brought upon it. And four archangels hearing it went in and said to themselves that the voice and cry, as the sons of earth perish, reach up to the gates of heaven. And they said to the holy ones of heaven:
4 Now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men are making their suit and saying: Bring our case before the Most High, and our destruction before the majestic Glory, before the Lord of all Lords in majesty.
5 And Rapha'el and Micha'el, great Watchers and holy ones, went in and said before the Lord of the world that Thou art our great Lord; Thou art Lord of the world; Thou art Lord of Lords and God of Gods and King of worlds. Thy glorious throne is for every generation of generations which are from eternity, and Thy Name is holy, and great and blessed to all eternity, and Thy glory is sacred and exists to all eternity.
CHAPTER EIGHT
I Enoch 8:3-9:3, 6-8
1 Semi-hazah taught spell-binding and cutting of roots. Hermoni taught the loosing of spells, magic, sorcery, and skill. Baraq'el taught the signs of thunders. Kokab'el taught the signs of the stars. Zeq'el taught the signs of lightning-flashes. Ar'taqoph taught the signs of the earth. Samsi'el taught the signs of the sun. Sahri'el taught the signs of the moon.
2 And they all began to reveal secrets to their wives. And because part of mankind was perishing from the earth, their cry was going up to heaven. Thereupon Micha'el and Sari'el and Rapha'el and Gabri'el looked down from the sanctuary of heaven upon the earth, and saw much blood spilled on the earth and the whole earth was filled with wickedness and violence, so that sin was brought upon it.
3 And the four archangels hearing it went in and said to themselves that the voice and cry, as the sons of earth perish, reach up to the gates of heaven. And they said to the holy ones of heaven: Now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men are making their suit and saying: Bring our cause before the Most High.
4 Asa’el taught all unrighteousness on the earth, and all deceit on the dry land. And he made known the eternal mysteries which were kept in heaven, so that the experts among the sons of man should practice them. And Thou seest what hath done Semi-hazah to whom Thou hast given authority to be king over all his companions. And they have gone to the daughters of men of the earth, and slept with them, having defiled themselves by females.
CHAPTER NINE
I Enoch 10:3-4
Instruct the righteous man what he is to do, and the son of Lamech how to preserve his soul unto life, and to escape forever. And from him will be planted a plant and it will be established for all the generations of worlds. And to Raphael the Lord said: Do go, Raphael, and bind Asa'el hand and foot and cast him into the darkness.
CHAPTER TEN
I Enoch 10:8-12
1 Unto Asa’el shall be ascribed all sins. And to Gabriel the Lord said: Go to the bastards and the children of fornication, and destroy the children of the Watchers from among men, and send them into a war of destruction; and length of days they will not have. And no request from their fathers on their behalf shall be granted that they should expect to live an eternal life or that each of them should live for five hundred years.
2 And to Michael the Lord said: Go Michael, and make known to Semihaza and to all his companions who associated with women to defile themselves with them in their uncleanness, that their sons shall perish, and they shall see the destruction of their beloved ones; and bind them unto seventy generations in valleys of the earth unto the great day of their judgement.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
I Enoch 10:13-19 & 12:3
1 They will be led off to the abyss of fire and unto torture and to everlasting confinement in prison. And everyone who is condemned, will be lost from now on; with them they will be bound until annihilation of their generation; and at the time of judgement which I God shall judge, they will perish for all generations.
2 Destroy all the spirits of the bastards and the sons of the Watchers, because they made men to act wickedly. And destroy iniquity from the face of the earth, and let every deed of wickedness disappear; and let the plant of righteousness appear; and it shall become a blessing, and deeds of righteousness shall be planted forever with joy. And now all the righteous shall escape and they shall be alive until they beget thousands; and all the days of your youth and of your old age shall be completed in peace.
3 Then all the earth shall be tilled in righteousness, and it shall all be planted with trees and be filled with blessing. And all the trees of the earth which they desire shall be planted in it; and they shall plant gardens in it and every garden which will be planted in it shall produce a thousand jars of wine, and of every seed which will be sown in it every single se’ah shall produce a thousand se’ahs.
4 And I Enoch began to bless the Lord of Majesty and King of the ages, and behold, the great holy Watcher called me.
CHAPTER TWELVE
I Enoch 10:21-11:1 & 12:4-6
1 And all the sons of men shall become righteous, and all of them shall be offering adoration, and every nation shall be praising me and shall prostrate itself.
2 And the whole earth shall be cleansed from all defilement and from all impurity. And I will never again send upon them any wrath nor castigation for all generations of worlds.
3 And then I will open ... Ye have wrought great devastation on the earth; and ye shall have no peace nor have forgiveness of sin.
4 And concerning those in whom they delight themselves, concerning their children, the murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their sons shall they lament.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
I Enoch 13:6-14:16
1 I Enoch wrote out their petition with all their requests concerning all their souls, with regard to every one of their deeds individually and concerning all they were requesting, that theirs might be forgiveness and length of life.
2 And I went on sitting by the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, which is to the south of Hermonin, on their west side; and I read the book of the account of their requests until I fell asleep. And behold, dreams came down upon me, and visions fell upon me until I lifted up my eyelids to the gates of the palace of Heaven; and I saw a vision of the wrath of chastisement, and a voice came and said: Speak to the sons of heaven to reprimand them.
3 And when I awoke I went unto them and they were all assembled together and sitting and weeping in Abel-Mayya, which is between Lebanon and Senir, with their faces covered. And I spoke before them all the visions which I had seen in dreams, and I began to speak in words of truth and vision and reprimand to the heavenly Watchers.
4 The book of the words of truth and reprimand of the Watchers who were from eternity, according to what the Great Holy One commanded in the dream which I dreamt.
5 And in this vision saw in my dream what I now say with tongue of flesh, with the breath of my mouth, which the Great One has given to the sons of men, to speak with them and to understand in their heart. As God has decreed and created the sons of men to understand words of knowledge, so He has decreed and made and created me to reprimand the Watchers, the sons of heaven.
6 I wrote down the petition of you, Watchers, and in a vision it appeared to me that your petition will not be executed for you for all the days of eternity; and judgement will be by decision and decree against you, that from now on to heaven you will not return and not ascend throughout all ages, and among the prisoners of the earth, a judgement has been decreed, to bind you until all the days of eternity; and that first you will see that for destruction are all your beloved ones and all their sons, and the possessions of your beloved ones and of their sons you will not enjoy for yourselves; and before you they will fall upon the sword of destruction, because your petition concerning them will not be executed for you, just as it will not be executed for yourselves; and ye will be petitioning and requesting ... and you will not be speaking any word from the writing which I have written.
7 And to me in the vision it thus appeared. Behold, clouds in the vision were calling me, and cloud-mists to me were shouting, and lightning-flashes and thunders were hastening me up and ... me, and winds in the vision made me to fly, and took me upwards and brought me up and made me enter into heaven. And I entered it until I drew near to the walls of a building built with hail-stones and tongues of fire were surrounding them all around, and they began to fill me with fear and to ... me. And I entered among those tongues of fire, until I drew near to a great house built with hailstones; and the walls of this house were like stone slabs, and all of them were made of snow, and the floor was built of snow.
8 And the ceiling was like lightning-flashes and like thunders; and among them fiery cherubim, and their heaven was of water. And a burning fire surrounded all their walls all around them, and the gates were of burning fire. And I entered into that house which was hot like fire, and cold as snow; and there was no pleasure of life in it; and behold, fear covered me and trembling seized me.
9 And I was shaken and trembling and I fell on my face; and it was shown to me in my vision. And behold I saw another door which opened before me, and another house which was greater than this, and all of it was built with tongues of fire. And all of it far surpassed the other in splendor and glory and majesty that I am unable to describe to you its splendor and majesty. And its floor was of fire and its upper part was of thunders and lightning-flashes, and its ceiling was of burning fire. And it was shown to me and I saw in it a lofty throne, and its appearance ...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
I Enoch 14:4-6
In my vision, it appeared that your petition will not be executed for you for all the days of eternity, and judgement will be by decision and decree against you, that from now on to heaven you will not return and not ascend throughout all ages, and among the prisoners of the earth a judgement has been decreed, to bind you until all the days of eternity; and that first you will see that for destruction are all your beloved ones and all their sons, and the possessions of your beloved ones and of their sons you will not enjoy for yourselves; and before you they will fall upon the sword of destruction.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
I Enoch 14:18-20 & 15:11
The throne was like crystal-glass, and its wheels were like the disc of the shining sun, and its sides were cherubim. And from beneath the throne came forth streams of fire, and I could not look. Great Majesty sat upon this throne, and His raiment was brighter than the sun and whiter than much snow. And the spirits of giants oppress, attack and work destruction on earth.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
I Enoch 18:8-12
The top of the throne was of sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire, and beyond those mountains there is a region on the other side of the great earth, and there the heavens are completed. Then I was shown a deep abyss, between pillars of heavenly fire, and I saw in it columns of fire descending to the bottom, and they were beyond measuring, both in their depth and in their height. And beyond that abyss ...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
I Enoch 22:3-7
1 These hollow places have been created for the souls of all the children of men.
2 And behold, these are the pits for their place of incarceration; they have been fashioned in this manner until the day they will be judged, and until the time of the Day of the End of the Great Judgement which will be exacted of them.
3 There I saw the spirit of a dead man making accusation, and his lamentation ascending up to heaven, and crying out unceasingly and making accusation.
4 Then I asked Raphael the Watcher and Holy One who was with me and I said to him: This spirit making accusation, whose is it, that in this manner his lamentation is ascending and crying out unceasingly and making accusation to heaven.
5 And he answered me, saying: Behold, this is the spirit that went forth from Abel whom his brother Cain slew.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
I Enoch 22:13-24:1
1 Hence those who suffer affliction there, being punished less in regard to their spirits, they will not be afflicted, with greater damage, in the day of judgement, away from there, nor will they be transferred permanently from there'. Then I blessed the Lord of Majesty and said:
2 Blessed be the Judgement of Righteousness, and blessed be the Lord of Majesty and of Righteousness who is the Lord of the world. And from there I was transported to another place, westwards of the ends of the earth, and I was shown fire which runs here and there, neither resting nor halting in its running behind by day or by night, yet at the same time remaining constant.
3 And I asked and said: What is this which never pauses? And Ra'u'el answered me: This is its function, that this fire whose running is to the west, follows as a shepherd all the luminaries of heaven.' And he showed me mountains, and the ground between them was of burning fire, glowing during the night.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
I Enoch 25:7-27:1
1 Blessed be the King of the world which stands before Him, Who prepares such things for men if they are righteous; and these things He has created and promised to give to them. And from thence I was translated to the center of the earth, and I saw a blessed place in which were trees whose branches bloomed with everlasting blossom. And there I was shown a holy mountain, and proceeding forth from beneath the mountain, water, from the East, and going down towards the South.
2 And I saw to the East another mountain higher than it, and between them a deep valley which was without breadth, with water proceeding forth from beneath the mountain. And to the West of it another mountain lower than it but without height, and a deep and dry valley underneath it and between these mountains, and there was another valley at the foot of these three mountains. And all the valleys were deep and of hard rock, and no tree was planted in them.
3 And I marveled at the mountains and I marveled at the valleys, and I marveled exceedingly. Then I said: Why is this land blessed, and all of it full of trees.
CHAPTER TWENTY
I Enoch 28:3-29:2 & 31:2-32:3
1 Flowing like a copious aqueduct approximately to the Northwest, it brought from everywhere water and dew as well. From thence I went to another place which was in the desert and I withdrew far to the East of this part. And there I saw wild trees which were exuding perfumes of incense and myrrh.
2 ... in it full of nectar, and it is like the bark of the almond tree. When incisions are made in these trees there comes forth from them a pleasant odor; when their bark is ground, they are sweeter than any fragrance.
3 And beyond these mountains approximately northwards, on their eastern side, I was shown other mountains plentiful with choice nard, mastic, cardamom, and pepper.
4 And from thence I proceeded to the East of all these mountains, far from them, to the East of the earth, and I was conveyed over the Red Sea and withdrew far from it, and I crossed over the darkness, far from it. And I passed on to the Paradise of righteousness.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
I Enoch 30:1-32:1
1 And beyond these mountains I proceeded very far to the east, and I saw another vast place, valleys of great waters, in which were sweet smelling reeds like mastic, and on the banks of these valleys I saw the fragrant cinnamon; and beyond these valleys, I proceeded far eastwards.
2 And I was shown other mountains, and also in them I saw trees from which came the resin which is called styrax and galbanum.
3 And beyond these mountains I was shown another mountain to the east of the limits of the earth and all the trees in it were filled with ... and it was like the bark of the almond tree.
4 When incisions are made in these trees there comes forth from them a pleasant odor; when these barks are ground, they are sweeter than any fragrance.
5 And beyond these mountains, approximately to the north-east of them, I was shown other mountains.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
I Enoch 32:3, 6 & 33:3-34:1
1 And I was shown from afar trees in it, trees exceedingly numerous and great, differing the one from the other.
2 And I saw there a tree which was different from all, very great and beautiful and magnificent ... your father of old and your mother of old, and they learnt knowledge, and their eyes were opened, and they understood that they were naked.
3 … Uri'el, one of the Watchers. And he showed me and wrote down everything for me; also he wrote for me their names according to the resemblance to their fixed times. And from thence I was transferred to the North of the ends of the earth, and I was shown great wonders.
I Enoch 35 & 36:1-4
4 And I saw portals open in heaven, such as I have seen in the East ... their number. Then from thence I was transported to the South of the limits of the earth, and there I was shown their three portals open, for the south wind, for dew and rain and for ... And from thence I was transported to the East of the limits of the earth and there I was shown their three portals, open to the East, and above them small gates, from every single one of which the stars of heaven come forth and go to the West on the paths which are fitting for them. And as often as I was looking at all these things I was saying blessings every time. Then I shall continue blessing the Lord of Majesty.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
I Enoch 76:3-10
1 ... and three gates after those on the north, and three after those on the west.
2 And through four of these come forth winds which are for the healing of the earth, and for its revival. And through eight of these come forth harmful winds; when they are sent, they destroy all the earth and the waters and all that is in them which grows and flourishes and creeps in the waters and on the dry land, and all men who live in it. And first of all, the east wind comes through the first gate which is in the east, and it inclines to the south; and from it comes destruction, drought, heat, and desolation.
3 And through the second gate, the middle one, comes forth the east-east wind: rain and fruitfulness and revival and dew. And through the third gate comes forth the east-north wind which is nigh the north wind; cold and drought.
4 And after them from three gates which are towards the south of the heavens; there comes forth, first of all, through the first gate a south wind which is in the south, inclining to the east: a hot wind. And through the second gate comes forth a south wind which they call the South, bringing dew and rain, well-being and revival. And by the third gate comes forth a southwest wind, bringing dew and rain and locusts and destruction. And after it comes forth a north wind and destruction.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
I Enoch 76:13-77:4
1 Through the last portal that adjoins the south come forth drought and destruction and death and heat and desolation.
2 And the twelve gates of the four quarters of heaven are completely described; their complete explanation I have shown to you, my son Methuselah.
3 And they call the east East because it is the first; and they call the south South because the Great One dwells there, and in it dwells ... blessed forever.
4 And the great quarter they call the West quarter, because there go the stars of heaven; there they set and there all stars enter. And for this reason they call it West. And the north they call North, because in it all the vessels of the heavens hide and gather together and revolve, and proceed to the east of the heavens.
5 And the east they call East because from there arise the bodies of the heavens; and also they call it mizrah because thence they arise.
6 And I saw three sections of the earth: one of them was for the dwelling of the sons of men in it; and one of them for all the seas, and the rivers; and one of them for the deserts and for the Seven and for the Paradise of righteousness.
7 And I saw seven mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth; and snow comes down upon them.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
I Enoch 78:6-8
And when the moon rises, the half of one seventh part of its light shines in the heavens, to appear above the earth; and its light is more and more complete each day until the fourteenth day, and in it all its light is complete. And its light waxes by fifteen parts, and its light is more and more complete each day until the fifteenth day, and in it all its light is complete; and it guides its phases by halves of sevenths. And in her waning the moon decreases from its light. On the first day it has fourteen parts, and on the second day thirteen parts, and on the third day twelve parts, and on the fourth day eleven parts.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
I Enoch 78:9-12
And Uri'el demonstrated to me a further calculation, by having shown it unto me that ... its light in heaven. And the first days they are called new moons, because ...
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
I Enoch 78:17-79:5
And as for the waning of the moon which takes place through the sixth gate, through it its light is accomplished ... twenty-five weeks and two days. And she falls behind the sun ... is restored in it. It looks then as an image of vision when its light is retarded in it. In the night this appearance looks a little as if it was the image of a man; and in the day this appearance looks a little like the sun in the sky, and there is nothing else in her save her light only. And now I show to you, my son, another calculation;
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
I Enoch 82:9-13
With regard to their Zodiacal periods, their new moons, their daily signs. And these are the names; and according to their authority with regard to all their stations. Four leaders ... and for three hundred and sixty-four days there are chiefs of thousands ... dividing the days ... And these are the names:
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
I Enoch 82:20
1 The clouds which make dew and rain falling upon the earth; and seed herbs of the earth and trees. And the sun rises and sets and winter comes. And leaves of all the trees wither and fall down except fourteen trees for which it is not fitting; their leaves remain.
2 ... this ... from its measure ... a tenth part of a ninth part ... a tenth part of a ninth part. And the stars move through the first gates of the heavens; and then they come forth. On first days, one tenth by one sixth; on second days, one fifteenth by one sixth; on third days, one thirtieth by one sixth.
3 On the fifteenth day ... in the same day ... only in this night from ... third part of a ninth part. And five ... and a tenth part of a ninth part.
CHAPTER THIRTY
I Enoch 86:1-3
And again I kept my eyes up in the dream and I saw the heaven above, and behold, a star fell from heaven into the midst of the big oxen; and it fed and pastured among them. Behold, then I saw these oxen, big ones and black ones, and behold, all of them exchanged their pastures and their cattle-sheds, and their calves, and they began to live one with another. And again I saw in my dream and beheld the heaven and behold many stars were descending and falling from heaven to near the first star, and they were turned into bulls in the midst of those calves and pastured with them and among them.
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
I Enoch 88:3-89:6
1 And when I was looking in my dream and, behold, to one of the four who had come forth it was ordered by Heaven; and all the many stars, whose privy members were like those of horses, he bound all of them hand and foot and cast them into the depths of the earth.
2 And one of the four went to one of the white oxen and instructed him; and he made for himself a ship, and dwelt inside it; and the three oxen entered with him into the ship, and the ship was covered and roofed over them, And I was looking and, behold, seven sluices pouring out on the earth much water.
3 And, behold, the underground chambers were opened in the interior of the earth and waters began to pour out and come upon it. And I was looking until the earth was covered by the waters and by darkness and mist, and they were standing upon it. And the oxen were submerged and engulfed and perishing in those waters. And the ship floated above the waters, and all the oxen and wild asses and camels and elephants sank in the waters.
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
I Enoch 89:7-16
1 And again I watched in my dream until those sluices were closed from that lofty roof, and the fissures of the underground chambers were stopped, and other underground chambers were opened.
2 And the waters began going down into the midst of these until the waters vanished from above the earth, and the earth appeared, and the vessel settled on the earth; and the darkness retired and light came. And behold the white ox, and the three oxen with him came forth from that vessel.
3 And there was born among them a white bull. And all these animals began to bite and to chase one another, and the white bull begat a wild ass and a white bull-calf together, and the wild asses multiplied. And the white bull-calf which was sired by the white bull begat a black wild boar and a white ram of the flock and the boar begat many wild boars, and the ram begat twelve sheep.
4 And when they had grown, they gave a sheep from them to the wild asses, and the wild asses gave up that sheep to the wolves and that sheep grew up among the wolves. And the ram led forth all of the eleven sheep to live and to pasture with it beside the wolves and they multiplied and became a flock of many sheep.
5 And the wolves began to oppress the flock till they had cast each one of their young into a great stream to sink in the waters. Then the sheep began to cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to complain to their Lord.
6 And a sheep which had been preserved from the wolves fled and came to the wild asses and I watched, while the flock lamented and cried terribly till the Lord of the sheep descended.
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
I Enoch 89:11-14
And they began to bite and to chase one another; and the white bull which was born among them begat a wild ass and a white bull-calf as well, and the wild asses multiplied. And this white bull-calf which was sired by the white bull begat a black wild boar and a white ram of the flock and the wild boar begat many wild boars and the ram begat twelve sheep. And when those twelve sheep had grown they gave one of them to the wild asses, and the wild asses gave up that sheep to wolves, and the sheep grew up among wolves. And the ram led forth all of the eleven sheep.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
I Enoch 89:26-30
1 The sea gathered the waters, and it arose until it covered the wolves.
2 And I looked until all the wolves who were pursuing that flock perished, sinking and drowning, and the waters covered them over. But the flock departed from those waters, and they came to a wilderness, a place where there was no water or grass, and their eyes were opened and they saw.
3 And I looked until the Lord of the sheep was pasturing them and He gave them water to drink and grass to eat. And the sheep ascended to the summit of a certain high rock, and the Lord of the flock sent him to the flock, and they all stood at a distance. Then I looked and, behold, the Lord of the flock stood facing the flock and his appearance was strong.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
I Enoch 89:29-31
And that sheep went up to the summit of a high rock, and the Lord of the sheep sent him to the flock, and they all stood at a distance. Then I saw and behold, the Lord of the sheep stood facing the flock, and his appearance was strong and great and fearful; and all the flock saw Him and were afraid before Him. And all of them were trembling and fearful before Him.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
I Enoch 89:31-37
1 And they all were afraid and trembling before Him, and they cried to the Sheep who was the second in command to Him, who was among them: We are not able to stand before the Lord.
2 Thereupon that Sheep that led them went up again for a second time to the summit of that rock. But the flock began to go blind and to stray from the way which had been shown them: but the Sheep did not know about these happenings.
3 And the Lord of the flock was filled with great wrath against the flock and that Sheep knew it and came down from the summit of that rock; and he came to the flock, and found all the majority of them blinded and straying. And when they saw him, they began to fear before him, and desired to return to their folds. And the Sheep took other sheep with him and came to the flock; and they slaughtered everyone that had gone astray; and they began to fear before him.
4 Then that Sheep restored all the straying flock to their folds. And when the straying flock had returned to their folds that Sheep set about reproaching and slaying and punishing everyone who swore by the name of the golden calf.
5 And I watched in this dream until that Sheep was changed and become a man and made a Tabernacle for the Lord of the flock; and he brought all the flock to that Tabernacle. And I watched until that Sheep who was associated with the first Sheep fell asleep.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
I Enoch 89:43-44
And that ram began to butt with his horns and to pursue with his horns and to strike hard the foxes, and thereafter the wild boars, and he destroyed many wild boars and thereafter let the dogs go free. And the sheep whose eyes were opened beheld that ram of the flock, until he deserted his way and began to strike the flock, to trample it down, and to depart out of a good way.
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
I Enoch 91:10, 18-19 & 92:1-2
1 And the righteous shall awake from their sleep. Wisdom shall arise and go, and be given to them, and to Him will they give praise. The earth shall rest from the sword for all generations forever.
2 And now I am speaking unto you, my sons, and I will tell you all the ways of righteousness and all the ways of violence, and I will show you again in order that you may know what will happen.
3 And now, my sons, hearken to me and choose the paths of righteousness to walk in them, and keep away from the paths of violence, from walking in them, because everyone who has walked in the way of wickedness will be utterly destroyed.
4 That which Enoch wrote and gave to Methuselah his son and to all his brothers,—Enoch the scribe of distinction and the wisest of men and chosen of the sons of earth to judge their deeds,—he wrote it also to his sons of sons and to the future generations, to all who dwell on the dry land, in order to do good and peace: Be ye not in distress, ye and your spirits, on account of the times, because the Great Holy One has given times for everything.
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
I Enoch 91:11-17 & 93:9-10
1 And all its deeds shall be done in apostasy. And with its end there shall be chosen the elect, for witnesses to righteousness, from the eternal plant of righteousness, to whom shall be given sevenfold wisdom and knowledge. And they will have rooted out the foundations of violence and the structure of falsehood therein, to execute judgement.
2 And thereafter shall arise the eighth Week, that of righteousness, in which a sword shall be given to all the righteous, to exact a righteous judgement from all the wicked, and they shall be delivered into their hands. And with its end they shall acquire riches in righteousness, and there shall be built the royal Temple of the Great One in His glorious splendor, for all generations forever.
3 And thereafter the ninth Week, and righteousness and right judgement will be revealed in it for all the children of the whole earth; and all the workers of impiety shall entirely pass away from the whole earth, and they will be cast into the eternal Pit, and all men shall see the right, eternal way.
4 And thereafter the tenth Week, in the seventh part of which an eternal Judgement and the fixed time of the Great Judgement shall be executed in vengeance, in the midst of the Holy Ones. And the first heaven in it end of the tenth Week shall pass away, and a new heaven shall appear, and all the powers of heaven shall rise for all eternity with sevenfold brightness.
5 And after this there will be many weeks to whose number there shall be no end forever, in which they shall work good and righteousness.
CHAPTER FORTY
I Enoch 92:5-93:4
1 And sin shall perish in darkness forever and shall never be visible again from this day forth for all generations forever. And when he was transmitting his Epistle, Enoch took up his discourse, saying:
2 Concerning the children of righteousness and about the elect of the world who have grown up from a plant of truth and of justice, behold, I will speak and will make it known unto you, my sons.
3 I Enoch, I have been shown everything in a heavenly vision, and from the word of the Watchers and Holy Ones I have known everything; and in the heavenly tablets I have read everything and understood. And Enoch took up his discourse again and said:
4 I Enoch, the seventh I was born in the first Week, and until my time justice was still enduring. And after me will arise the second Week in which lying and violence will have sprung up.
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
I Enoch 93:11-94:2
1 Who is the man who can understand the command of God? And who is there of all the children of men who can hear the words of the Holy One and not be troubled, or can think His thoughts?
2 Or who is the man who can behold all the works of heaven, or the corner-pillars upon which the heaven rests; and who can see a soul or a spirit and can return from there to tell it, or ascend and see the whole community of spirits and think and act like them? Or who is there from the children of men who is able to know and measure what is the length and the breadth of the whole earth; or who is there to whom is shown all its ... and its shape?
3 Or what man is there who can know the length of the heaven and what is its height, or how it is supported; and how great is the number of the stars? And now to you I say, my sons, love righteousness, and walk in it, for the ways of righteousness are worthy to be accepted, but the ways of wickedness shall be destroyed and vanish.
4 And to the sons of men ...
5 And the moon shines during the rest of this night with three seventh parts; and it waxes during this day up to four sevenths and a half.
6 And then it sets and enters the same gate as before, and it is covered, the rest of this day, to two sevenths and a half. And in night twenty-four of this month it is covered by four sevenths and a half; and there is subtracted from its light four sevenths and a half. And then it emerges from the same gate and shines during the rest of this night with two sevenths and a half; it waxes during this day up to five sevenths. And then it sets and enters the same gate and it is covered, the rest of this day, to two sevenths of its light.
7 And at the beginning of night twenty-five of this month, the moon is covered to five seventh parts of its light, i.e. five seventh parts are subtracted from its light. And then it emerges from the same gate as on the preceding days and shines during the rest of this night with two seventh parts of its light; and it waxes during this day up to five sevenths and a half of its light. And then it sets and enters the second gate and it is covered during the rest of this day to one seventh part and a half of its light.
8 And during night twenty-six of this month it is covered to five sevenths and a half; and there is subtracted from its light five sevenths and a half. And then it emerges from the second gate, and it shines during the rest of this night with a seventh and a half, and it waxes during this day up to six sevenths. And then it sets and enters the second gate and it is covered, the rest of this day, to one seventh.
9 And during night twenty-seven of this month it is covered to six sevenths; there is subtracted from its light six sevenths. And then it emerges from the second gate and it shines, the rest of this night, with one seventh. And it waxes during this day up to six sevenths and a half. And then it sets and enters.
10 And the moon shines in night eight of this month with four sevenths. And then it sets and enters the same gate as before. During this night the sun completes the passage across all the sections of the first gate, and it begins again to go and to come out through these sections, i.e. of the first gate. And then the moon sets and enters the same gate. And it wanes during the rest of this night by three sevenths. And it waxes during this day up to four sevenths and a half. And then it emerges from the same gate as before and it keeps during the rest of this day two seventh parts of its light and a half.
11 And it shines during night nine of this month with four sevenths and a half. And then it sets and enters the gate. During this night the sun begins again to move away through its sections, i.e. of the first gate, and to set through these sections. And then the moon sets and enters the fifth gate and it wanes during the rest of this night by two sevenths and a half.
12 And it waxes during this day up to five sevenths, and its light is equivalent exactly to five sevenths. And then it emerges from the fifth gate and it keeps, during the rest of this day, two sevenths. And it shines in night ten of this month with five sevenths. And then it sets and enters the fifth gate. And it wanes the rest of this night, by two sevenths. And it waxes during this day up to five sevenths and a half.
13 And in night twenty-eight of this month, the moon is covered by six sevenths and a half, and there is subtracted from its light six sevenths and a half. And then it emerges from the same door as before and it shines during the rest of this night with a half of a seventh part. And it waxes during this day to its entirety. And then it sets and enters the gate and it is covered during the rest of this day in its entirety and all the rest of its light is removed and its disc emerges, devoid of all light, hidden by the sun.
SEE APPENDIX I FOR ENOCH 97:6-107:3 FROM THE GREEK
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
I Enoch 104:13-106:2
1 And they will believe in them and be glad over them; and all the righteous will rejoice to learn from them all the ways of righteousness.
2 In those days the Lord appointed them the righteous over the children of earth, to read the books, and to testify with regard to them according to their wisdom, saying: Tell them about it wisdom, for you are to lead them, and you will receive your reward from all the children of earth. And you shall have all remuneration. Be glad ye, o children of righteousness.
3 And after a time I Enoch took a wife for Methuselah my son and she brought forth a son and called his name Lamech saying: Brought low, indeed, righteousness has been to this day.' And when he came to maturity, Methuselah took for him a wife, and she became pregnant by him and bore a boy.
4 And when the boy was born, his flesh was whiter than snow and redder than the rose, and all his hair was white as the pure wool, and thick and bright. And when he opened his eyes he lighted up the whole house as the sun.
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
I Enoch 106:13-107:2
1 Then I Enoch answered saying: Truly the Lord will restore His Law on the earth, according as I saw and told you my son that in the days of Jared my father Watchers transgressed the Word of the Lord and departed from the covenant of Heaven. And behold, they go on sinning and transgressing the custom and they perverted their nature to go unto women, and to sin with them, and married some of them, and women are begetting children, who are not like spiritual beings, but creatures of flesh.
2 And there shall be great wrath of God against the earth and Flood; and great destruction shall be done for one year. And this boy who has been born to you and his three children will be saved, when men die upon earth, Then, the earth shall be at rest, and be cleansed from great corruption.
3 And now say to Lamech: He is thy son in truth, and Pious call this boy who has been born, and Noah call his name, for he shall be your rest, wherein ye shall rest, and he shall be your salvation, for he will be saved, he and his sons, from the corruption of the earth—which will be caused by the deeds of all sinners, and by the wickedness of the sons of the earth—which shall be in his days. And thereafter shall come stronger wickedness than that which will be consummated in the days of Noah and his sons. For I know the mysteries of the Lord which the Holy Ones have told me and showed me, and which I read in the tablets of heaven.
4 And I saw written in them that generation after generation would do evil in this wise, and evil would be more and more until there arose generations of righteousness, and evil and wickedness should come to an end, and violence should cease from off the earth, and until good should come on the earth, upon them men. And now, go unto Lamech, thy son, and tell him that this boy is truly, and without deception, his son.
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
Book of Giants
... and all ... the vision ... was shown to Enoch the scribe of distinction ... children of Adam. Behold, the Great One.
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
Book of Giants
To inspect upon the earth all the children of Adam on account of the wickedness of the Giants which they have done upon the earth, for upon it blood was being shed, and falsehoods were being spoken, and impieties were being perpetrated upon it, all the days ... flood upon the earth. SEE APPENDIX II…
APPENDIX I
THE BOOK OF ENOCH 97:6–107:3 FROM THE GREEK CHESTER BEATTY PAPYRI XII
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
I Enoch 97:6-98:1
1 All the words of your iniquities shall be read out in the presence of the Great Holy One before your faces. Then he will remove all the works that partook of iniquity. Woe unto you, sinners, who are in the midst of the sea and on the dry land; there is an evil memorial against you. Woe unto you, ye who gain gold and silver not by way of righteousness; and ye will say, We have grown rich with riches and have got and possessed ourselves of goods; and let us do all that we desire, because we have treasured up silver in our treasuries and much goods in our houses, and they are poured out like water. Ye err, for your wealth shall not abide, but it shall go from you quickly, because ye possess it all unjustly; and ye shall be given over to a great curse. And now I swear unto you, the wise, and not to the foolish, that ye shall see many iniquities upon the earth.
I Enoch 98:2-3
2 For men shall put on beauty even as women, and fair color beyond maidens, in sovereignty and grandeur and in power. They shall have silver and gold for food, and in their houses they shall be poured out like water, because they have no knowledge nor judgment. So shall ye perish together with all your goods and all your glory and honor, and in dishonor and desolation and great slaughter your spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
I Enoch 98:4
3 Sin was not sent upon the earth, but men made it of themselves; and they who do it shall come into a great curse. And slavery was not given to a woman, but because of the works of her hands; for it was not ordained that a slave should be a slave. It was not given from above, but came about through oppression. Likewise neither was iniquity given from above, but it came from transgression.
I Enoch 98:5-8
4 Likewise a woman was not created barren, but because of her own wrongdoings she was punished with childlessness; and childless shall she die. I swear to you, sinners, by the Holy Great One that your evil deeds shall be revealed in heaven. No unrighteous deed of yours shall be hidden. Think not in your souls, and think not in your hearts that men know not and see not, and your wrongdoings are not observed nor written down before the Highest.
I Enoch 98:8-11
5 From now on know ye that all your wrongdoings are written down day by day until your judgment. Woe unto you, fools, for ye shall perish through your folly, and ye shall not give ear to the wise, and blessings shall not be your portion, but evils shall be about you. And now know that all things have been made ready for you for the day of destruction. Hope not to be saved, ye sinners; depart and die, knowing that all things have been made ready for the day of great judgment and greater anguish to your spirits. Woe unto you, ye obstinate in heart, doing evil and devouring blood; whence shall ye have good things that ye may eat and drink and be filled.
I Enoch 98:12-16
6 Woe unto you who love the works of unrighteousness; why have ye good hopes for yourselves? Now be it known to you that ye shall be given over into the hands of the righteous, and they shall slay you and shall not spare you. Woe unto you, ye who rejoice in the troubles of the righteous; no grave shall be dug for you. Woe unto you, ye who would set at naught the words of the righteous; ye shall have no hope of salvation. Woe unto you, ye who write false words and words of error; they write and they will lead many astray by their lies. Ye yourselves err, and ye have no joy, but quickly ye shall perish.
I Enoch 99:1-4
7 Woe unto you, ye who cause errors, and by your false deeds gain honor and glory; ye are lost, ye have no salvation for good. Woe unto you, ye who alter the words of truth and pervert the eternal covenant, and reckon yourselves without sin; they shall be swallowed up in the earth. Then make you ready, ye righteous, and offer your petitions for a memorial; give them in testimony before the angels, that they may bring the sins of the unrighteous before the Most High God for a memorial. And then they shall be confounded and they shall rise in the day of the destruction of unrighteousness.
I Enoch 99:5
8 In that very time women who give birth shall cast out and give away and abandon their infants, and they that are with child shall destroy their fruit and they that suckle shall cast down their children and shall not return to their babes or their sucklings, and they shall not spare them.
I Enoch 99:6-10
9 Bloodshed shall come upon those who worship stones and those who carve images of silver and of gold, of wood and of stone and of clay, and worship phantoms and demons and abominations and evil spirits and all errors with no understanding; and they shall find no help in them. And they shall err in the folly of their hearts, and the visions of their dreams shall lead you astray; ye and the lying works that ye have made and wrought of stone, together shall ye perish. And then blessed are all those who have heard words of the wise and will learn them, so as to do the commandments of the Highest; and they will walk in the ways of his righteousness and they shall not go astray with them that err, and they shall be saved.
I Enoch 99:13-14
10 Woe to them who build their houses not by their own labor; and of stone and of bricks ye make every house. Foolish men, ye have no joy. Woe to them who set at naught the foundation and the inheritance of their fathers which is from all time, for a spirit of error shall pursue you. There is no rest for you.
I Enoch 99:15-100:1
11 Woe to you who work iniquity and give aid to unrighteousness, slaying their neighbor until the day of the great judgment; because then he will destroy your glory and will arouse his anger against you; he will slay you all by the sword, and all the righteous shall remember your unrighteousness. And then in one place, fathers and sons will be smitten together.
I Enoch 100:1-3
12 Brothers shall fall in death together and their blood shall flow. And a man shall not withhold his hand from his son, nor from his beloved, to slay him, and the sinner from the man of worth, nor from his brother. From dawn until the sun sets they shall be slaughtered together. And the horse shall walk through the blood of sinners up to his chest, and the chariot shall sink down to its axles.
I Enoch 100:4-6
13 And angels shall come down, descending into the secret places on that day; and all who helped unrighteousness shall be gathered together into one place and the Highest will rise on the day of judgment to make a great judgment upon all. And over all the righteous and holy he will set a guard of the holy angels, and they shall be kept as the apple of the eye until tribulations and sin shall give over. And from that time the pious shall sleep a sweet sleep, and there shall no longer be any to make them afraid. Then the wise among men shall see, and the sons of the earth shall give heed to these words of this letter, and they shall know that their wealth cannot save them in the fall of unrighteousness.
I Enoch 100:6-9
14 Woe unto you, ye unrighteous, when ye oppress the righteous on the day of hard anguish, and guard them in fire; for ye shall be recompensed according to your deeds. Woe unto you, ye hard of heart, watchful to devise evil; fear encompasses you about, and there is none to take your part. Woe unto you, all ye sinners, because of the works of your mouth. Woe unto you, all ye sinners, because of the words of your mouth and the works of your hands, because ye have gone astray from the deeds of holiness; in blazing fire flaming worse than any fire.
I Enoch 100:11-12
15 Every cloud and mist and dew and rain shall be withheld because of your sins. Therefore offer gifts to the rain, that it be not hindered from descending for you, and to dew and cloud and mist; pay gold that they may come down. For if snow falls upon you, and frost and its cold, and the winds with their chill, and all their scourges, ye cannot stand before cold and their scourges.
I Enoch 101
16 Consider then, sons of men, the works of the Highest and fear to do evil before him. If he closes the windows of heaven and hinders the dew and the rain from descending because of you, what will ye do? If he sends his anger against you and against your works, will you not be entreating him? Why do ye utter with your mouths bold and hard sayings against his greatness? Ye see the sailors that sail the sea, their ships tossed by the billow and storm; and beaten by the storm they all fear and cast out into the sea all their goods and their property, and in their hearts they forebode that the sea will swallow them up and they will perish in it. Are not all the sea and all its waters the work of the Most High, and did he not set their limits, and bind it and fence it about with sand? And by his wrath they are affrighted and dried up; and the fish die and all that is in it.
17 Did he not make the heaven and the earth and all that is in them? And who gave understanding to all things that move in the sea? The sailors fear the sea.
I Enoch 102
18 And when he hurls out against you the surge of the fire of your burning, where shall ye flee and be safe? And when he gives forth his voice against you, will ye not be shaken and affrighted by the mighty sound? And the whole earth shall be shaken and trembling and thrown into confusion, and the angels fulfilling that which is commanded them, and the heaven and its lights shaken and trembling and all the sons of the earth. And ye, sinners accursed forever, there is no joy for you.
19 Be of good courage, souls of the just that are dead, the just and the pious, and be not grieved that your souls have gone down to Hades with grief, and the body of your flesh fared not in your life according to your holiness, for the days that ye lived were days of sinners and of men accursed upon the earth. When ye die, then will the sinners say that the pious have died according to their fate, and what have they gained because of their deeds? They too have died even as we.
20 See now how they die in grief and darkness, and what had they more than we? From now on let them rise and be saved, and they shall for ever see us eating and drinking. Therefore it is well for you to eat and drink and plunder and sin and rob and gain property and see good days. Behold, now, they who try to justify themselves, how great has been their downfall, because no righteousness was found in them until they died and were destroyed and became as though they were not, and their souls went down in pain to Hades.
I Enoch 103
21 I swear to you, the righteous, I understand this mystery; for I have read the tablets of heaven and have seen the writing of authority; I learned that which was written upon them and graven thereon concerning you, that blessings and joy and honor have been prepared and written down for the souls of those who died in godliness. And their spirits shall be glad and shall not perish, nor their memorial from before the face of the Great One unto all the generations of the ages.
22 Therefore fear not their revilings. And ye of the sinners who are dead, when ye are dead they will say of you, Blessed were the sinners all their days that they saw in their life, and they have died in glory and there was no judgment in their life. Ye yourselves know that they will take your souls down to Hades, and there they shall be in great anguish and in darkness and in toils and in burning flame, and your souls shall come into a great judgment in all the generations of the age.
23 Woe unto you, there is no joy for you. For say not, ye who were righteous and holy in your life, During the days of oppression we suffered hardships and were spent and became few, and we found none to take our part; we have been ground to powder and destroyed, and we have given up hope even to know safety again day by day. We hoped to be the head, we became the tail; we toiled and labored and we have not been masters of our wages. We have become the prey of sinners, the lawless have made the yoke heavy upon us. They who are our masters, our enemies, goad us and encompass us about; we sought where we might flee from them to be refreshed.
24 We cried out against those who insulted and outraged us and they did not receive our petitions, and would not give ear to our voice. And they did not take our part, finding no complaint against those who outrage and devour us; but they harden against us them who slew us and made us few; they lay no charge concerning those of us who have been murdered, and concerning the sinners they remember not their sins.
I Enoch 104
25 I swear to you that the angels in heaven remember you for good before the glory of the Great One. Be of good courage now because ye have grown old in troubles and in tribulations. Like lamps of heaven shall ye shine and be seen; the windows of heaven shall be opened for you. And your cry shall be heard, and your judgment for which ye cry shall also be made manifest against everything that shall help against you for your oppression, and shall be exacted from all who partook with those who outrage and devour you.
26 Ye shall not fear evil on the day of the great judgment and ye shall not be found as the sinners; but ye sinners shall be troubled, and there shall be eternal judgment upon you to all the generations of the ages. Fear not, ye righteous, when ye see sinners waxing strong and prospering, and be not sharers with them, but keep far away from all their unrighteousness. Say not, ye sinners, that the sins of your days will not be sought out. And now I show to you that light and darkness, day and night, behold all your sins. Err not in your hearts, nor lie, nor change the words of truth, nor utter falsehood against the words of the Holy One, and give not praise to your images; for all your lies lead not to righteousness, and all your error leads to sin.
27 Sinners alter and write against the words of truth and lead the many away, and they lie and invent great falsehoods and write out the Scriptures in their names; and would that they would write all my words truthfully in their names, and neither take away or change anything in these words, but write truthfully all that I testify to them! And again I know a second mystery, that to the just and holy and wise my books shall be given for joy in the truth, and they shall believe them and in them shall they be glad; and all the righteous shall rejoice to learn from them all the ways of truth.
THERE IS NO CHAPTER 105 IN THE GREEK BUT IT IS ATTESTED TO IN ARAMAIC AT 42:2
I Enoch 106
28 And after a time I took a wife for Methusaleh my son, and she bore a son and called his name Lamech. Righteousness was brought low until that day. And when he came of age, he took him a wife, and she bore him a child; and when the child was born, his body was whiter than snow and redder than a rose, his hair all white and as white wool, and curly and glorious.
29 And when he opened his eyes, the house shone like the sun. And he arose from the hands of the midwife and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord. And Lamech was afraid of him and fled and went to Methusaleh his father and said to him, A strange child has been born to me, not like unto men but unto the children of the angels of heaven, and his form is strange, not like unto us. His eyes are as beams of the sun, and glorious his face; and I think that he is not of me, but of an angel, and I fear him, lest something shall come to pass on the earth in his days. And I beseech thee, father, and entreat thee, go to Enoch our father and ask him about this.
30 Methusaleh came to me at the ends of the earth where he saw that I was then, and said to me, My father, give ear to my voice and come to me. And I heard his voice and came to him and said, Behold, I am here, child. Why hast thou come to me, child? And he answered, saying, Because of a great distress have I come here, father; and now a child has been born to Lamech, my son, and his form and his image are not like unto men, and his color is whiter than snow and redder than a rose; and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the beams of the sun. And he rose up from the hands of the midwife and, opening his mouth, he blessed the Lord of the age; and my son Lamech was afraid, and fled to me, and he does not believe that he is his son, but that he is from angels. And behold, I have come to thee that thou mightest make known to me the very truth. Then I answered, saying The Lord will make a new command upon the earth; and in the same way, my son, I have seen and made known to thee.
31 For in the generation of Jared my father they transgressed the word of the Lord, departing from the covenant of heaven. And, behold, they sin and transgress the custom, and have to do with women and sin with them, and they have married wives from among them; and they bear children not like spirits but of flesh. And there shall be great wrath upon the earth, and a deluge; and there shall be great destruction for one year. And this child that is born shall be left, and his three sons shall be saved when they who are on the earth are dead; and he shall tame the earth from the corruption that is upon it. And now tell Lamech that he is his son in truth and holiness, and call his name Noah; for he shall be a remnant of you whereon ye shall rest, and his sons, from the corruption of the earth and from all the sinners and from all the wickedness on the earth.
32 The Lord has showed them and made them known to me, and I have read them in the tablets of heaven.
I Enoch 107
33 Then I beheld that which was written upon them, that one generation shall be worse than another; and this I saw until there shall arise a generation of righteousness, and wickedness shall perish, and sin shall depart from the earth and blessings shall come to them upon the earth. And now run, child, and make it known to Lamech thy son that this child that is born is his son in truth and not in falsehood. And when Methusaleh heard the words of Enoch his father—for he had revealed them to him secretly—he returned and revealed them to him. And his name was called Noah, comforting the earth after the destruction.
I Enoch 97:6-98:1
1 All the words of your iniquities shall be read out in the presence of the Great Holy One before your faces. Then he will remove all the works that partook of iniquity. Woe unto you, sinners, who are in the midst of the sea and on the dry land; there is an evil memorial against you. Woe unto you, ye who gain gold and silver not by way of righteousness; and ye will say, We have grown rich with riches and have got and possessed ourselves of goods; and let us do all that we desire, because we have treasured up silver in our treasuries and much goods in our houses, and they are poured out like water. Ye err, for your wealth shall not abide, but it shall go from you quickly, because ye possess it all unjustly; and ye shall be given over to a great curse. And now I swear unto you, the wise, and not to the foolish, that ye shall see many iniquities upon the earth.
I Enoch 98:2-3
2 For men shall put on beauty even as women, and fair color beyond maidens, in sovereignty and grandeur and in power. They shall have silver and gold for food, and in their houses they shall be poured out like water, because they have no knowledge nor judgment. So shall ye perish together with all your goods and all your glory and honor, and in dishonor and desolation and great slaughter your spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
I Enoch 98:4
3 Sin was not sent upon the earth, but men made it of themselves; and they who do it shall come into a great curse. And slavery was not given to a woman, but because of the works of her hands; for it was not ordained that a slave should be a slave. It was not given from above, but came about through oppression. Likewise neither was iniquity given from above, but it came from transgression.
I Enoch 98:5-8
4 Likewise a woman was not created barren, but because of her own wrongdoings she was punished with childlessness; and childless shall she die. I swear to you, sinners, by the Holy Great One that your evil deeds shall be revealed in heaven. No unrighteous deed of yours shall be hidden. Think not in your souls, and think not in your hearts that men know not and see not, and your wrongdoings are not observed nor written down before the Highest.
I Enoch 98:8-11
5 From now on know ye that all your wrongdoings are written down day by day until your judgment. Woe unto you, fools, for ye shall perish through your folly, and ye shall not give ear to the wise, and blessings shall not be your portion, but evils shall be about you. And now know that all things have been made ready for you for the day of destruction. Hope not to be saved, ye sinners; depart and die, knowing that all things have been made ready for the day of great judgment and greater anguish to your spirits. Woe unto you, ye obstinate in heart, doing evil and devouring blood; whence shall ye have good things that ye may eat and drink and be filled.
I Enoch 98:12-16
6 Woe unto you who love the works of unrighteousness; why have ye good hopes for yourselves? Now be it known to you that ye shall be given over into the hands of the righteous, and they shall slay you and shall not spare you. Woe unto you, ye who rejoice in the troubles of the righteous; no grave shall be dug for you. Woe unto you, ye who would set at naught the words of the righteous; ye shall have no hope of salvation. Woe unto you, ye who write false words and words of error; they write and they will lead many astray by their lies. Ye yourselves err, and ye have no joy, but quickly ye shall perish.
I Enoch 99:1-4
7 Woe unto you, ye who cause errors, and by your false deeds gain honor and glory; ye are lost, ye have no salvation for good. Woe unto you, ye who alter the words of truth and pervert the eternal covenant, and reckon yourselves without sin; they shall be swallowed up in the earth. Then make you ready, ye righteous, and offer your petitions for a memorial; give them in testimony before the angels, that they may bring the sins of the unrighteous before the Most High God for a memorial. And then they shall be confounded and they shall rise in the day of the destruction of unrighteousness.
I Enoch 99:5
8 In that very time women who give birth shall cast out and give away and abandon their infants, and they that are with child shall destroy their fruit and they that suckle shall cast down their children and shall not return to their babes or their sucklings, and they shall not spare them.
I Enoch 99:6-10
9 Bloodshed shall come upon those who worship stones and those who carve images of silver and of gold, of wood and of stone and of clay, and worship phantoms and demons and abominations and evil spirits and all errors with no understanding; and they shall find no help in them. And they shall err in the folly of their hearts, and the visions of their dreams shall lead you astray; ye and the lying works that ye have made and wrought of stone, together shall ye perish. And then blessed are all those who have heard words of the wise and will learn them, so as to do the commandments of the Highest; and they will walk in the ways of his righteousness and they shall not go astray with them that err, and they shall be saved.
I Enoch 99:13-14
10 Woe to them who build their houses not by their own labor; and of stone and of bricks ye make every house. Foolish men, ye have no joy. Woe to them who set at naught the foundation and the inheritance of their fathers which is from all time, for a spirit of error shall pursue you. There is no rest for you.
I Enoch 99:15-100:1
11 Woe to you who work iniquity and give aid to unrighteousness, slaying their neighbor until the day of the great judgment; because then he will destroy your glory and will arouse his anger against you; he will slay you all by the sword, and all the righteous shall remember your unrighteousness. And then in one place, fathers and sons will be smitten together.
I Enoch 100:1-3
12 Brothers shall fall in death together and their blood shall flow. And a man shall not withhold his hand from his son, nor from his beloved, to slay him, and the sinner from the man of worth, nor from his brother. From dawn until the sun sets they shall be slaughtered together. And the horse shall walk through the blood of sinners up to his chest, and the chariot shall sink down to its axles.
I Enoch 100:4-6
13 And angels shall come down, descending into the secret places on that day; and all who helped unrighteousness shall be gathered together into one place and the Highest will rise on the day of judgment to make a great judgment upon all. And over all the righteous and holy he will set a guard of the holy angels, and they shall be kept as the apple of the eye until tribulations and sin shall give over. And from that time the pious shall sleep a sweet sleep, and there shall no longer be any to make them afraid. Then the wise among men shall see, and the sons of the earth shall give heed to these words of this letter, and they shall know that their wealth cannot save them in the fall of unrighteousness.
I Enoch 100:6-9
14 Woe unto you, ye unrighteous, when ye oppress the righteous on the day of hard anguish, and guard them in fire; for ye shall be recompensed according to your deeds. Woe unto you, ye hard of heart, watchful to devise evil; fear encompasses you about, and there is none to take your part. Woe unto you, all ye sinners, because of the works of your mouth. Woe unto you, all ye sinners, because of the words of your mouth and the works of your hands, because ye have gone astray from the deeds of holiness; in blazing fire flaming worse than any fire.
I Enoch 100:11-12
15 Every cloud and mist and dew and rain shall be withheld because of your sins. Therefore offer gifts to the rain, that it be not hindered from descending for you, and to dew and cloud and mist; pay gold that they may come down. For if snow falls upon you, and frost and its cold, and the winds with their chill, and all their scourges, ye cannot stand before cold and their scourges.
I Enoch 101
16 Consider then, sons of men, the works of the Highest and fear to do evil before him. If he closes the windows of heaven and hinders the dew and the rain from descending because of you, what will ye do? If he sends his anger against you and against your works, will you not be entreating him? Why do ye utter with your mouths bold and hard sayings against his greatness? Ye see the sailors that sail the sea, their ships tossed by the billow and storm; and beaten by the storm they all fear and cast out into the sea all their goods and their property, and in their hearts they forebode that the sea will swallow them up and they will perish in it. Are not all the sea and all its waters the work of the Most High, and did he not set their limits, and bind it and fence it about with sand? And by his wrath they are affrighted and dried up; and the fish die and all that is in it.
17 Did he not make the heaven and the earth and all that is in them? And who gave understanding to all things that move in the sea? The sailors fear the sea.
I Enoch 102
18 And when he hurls out against you the surge of the fire of your burning, where shall ye flee and be safe? And when he gives forth his voice against you, will ye not be shaken and affrighted by the mighty sound? And the whole earth shall be shaken and trembling and thrown into confusion, and the angels fulfilling that which is commanded them, and the heaven and its lights shaken and trembling and all the sons of the earth. And ye, sinners accursed forever, there is no joy for you.
19 Be of good courage, souls of the just that are dead, the just and the pious, and be not grieved that your souls have gone down to Hades with grief, and the body of your flesh fared not in your life according to your holiness, for the days that ye lived were days of sinners and of men accursed upon the earth. When ye die, then will the sinners say that the pious have died according to their fate, and what have they gained because of their deeds? They too have died even as we.
20 See now how they die in grief and darkness, and what had they more than we? From now on let them rise and be saved, and they shall for ever see us eating and drinking. Therefore it is well for you to eat and drink and plunder and sin and rob and gain property and see good days. Behold, now, they who try to justify themselves, how great has been their downfall, because no righteousness was found in them until they died and were destroyed and became as though they were not, and their souls went down in pain to Hades.
I Enoch 103
21 I swear to you, the righteous, I understand this mystery; for I have read the tablets of heaven and have seen the writing of authority; I learned that which was written upon them and graven thereon concerning you, that blessings and joy and honor have been prepared and written down for the souls of those who died in godliness. And their spirits shall be glad and shall not perish, nor their memorial from before the face of the Great One unto all the generations of the ages.
22 Therefore fear not their revilings. And ye of the sinners who are dead, when ye are dead they will say of you, Blessed were the sinners all their days that they saw in their life, and they have died in glory and there was no judgment in their life. Ye yourselves know that they will take your souls down to Hades, and there they shall be in great anguish and in darkness and in toils and in burning flame, and your souls shall come into a great judgment in all the generations of the age.
23 Woe unto you, there is no joy for you. For say not, ye who were righteous and holy in your life, During the days of oppression we suffered hardships and were spent and became few, and we found none to take our part; we have been ground to powder and destroyed, and we have given up hope even to know safety again day by day. We hoped to be the head, we became the tail; we toiled and labored and we have not been masters of our wages. We have become the prey of sinners, the lawless have made the yoke heavy upon us. They who are our masters, our enemies, goad us and encompass us about; we sought where we might flee from them to be refreshed.
24 We cried out against those who insulted and outraged us and they did not receive our petitions, and would not give ear to our voice. And they did not take our part, finding no complaint against those who outrage and devour us; but they harden against us them who slew us and made us few; they lay no charge concerning those of us who have been murdered, and concerning the sinners they remember not their sins.
I Enoch 104
25 I swear to you that the angels in heaven remember you for good before the glory of the Great One. Be of good courage now because ye have grown old in troubles and in tribulations. Like lamps of heaven shall ye shine and be seen; the windows of heaven shall be opened for you. And your cry shall be heard, and your judgment for which ye cry shall also be made manifest against everything that shall help against you for your oppression, and shall be exacted from all who partook with those who outrage and devour you.
26 Ye shall not fear evil on the day of the great judgment and ye shall not be found as the sinners; but ye sinners shall be troubled, and there shall be eternal judgment upon you to all the generations of the ages. Fear not, ye righteous, when ye see sinners waxing strong and prospering, and be not sharers with them, but keep far away from all their unrighteousness. Say not, ye sinners, that the sins of your days will not be sought out. And now I show to you that light and darkness, day and night, behold all your sins. Err not in your hearts, nor lie, nor change the words of truth, nor utter falsehood against the words of the Holy One, and give not praise to your images; for all your lies lead not to righteousness, and all your error leads to sin.
27 Sinners alter and write against the words of truth and lead the many away, and they lie and invent great falsehoods and write out the Scriptures in their names; and would that they would write all my words truthfully in their names, and neither take away or change anything in these words, but write truthfully all that I testify to them! And again I know a second mystery, that to the just and holy and wise my books shall be given for joy in the truth, and they shall believe them and in them shall they be glad; and all the righteous shall rejoice to learn from them all the ways of truth.
THERE IS NO CHAPTER 105 IN THE GREEK BUT IT IS ATTESTED TO IN ARAMAIC AT 42:2
I Enoch 106
28 And after a time I took a wife for Methusaleh my son, and she bore a son and called his name Lamech. Righteousness was brought low until that day. And when he came of age, he took him a wife, and she bore him a child; and when the child was born, his body was whiter than snow and redder than a rose, his hair all white and as white wool, and curly and glorious.
29 And when he opened his eyes, the house shone like the sun. And he arose from the hands of the midwife and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord. And Lamech was afraid of him and fled and went to Methusaleh his father and said to him, A strange child has been born to me, not like unto men but unto the children of the angels of heaven, and his form is strange, not like unto us. His eyes are as beams of the sun, and glorious his face; and I think that he is not of me, but of an angel, and I fear him, lest something shall come to pass on the earth in his days. And I beseech thee, father, and entreat thee, go to Enoch our father and ask him about this.
30 Methusaleh came to me at the ends of the earth where he saw that I was then, and said to me, My father, give ear to my voice and come to me. And I heard his voice and came to him and said, Behold, I am here, child. Why hast thou come to me, child? And he answered, saying, Because of a great distress have I come here, father; and now a child has been born to Lamech, my son, and his form and his image are not like unto men, and his color is whiter than snow and redder than a rose; and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the beams of the sun. And he rose up from the hands of the midwife and, opening his mouth, he blessed the Lord of the age; and my son Lamech was afraid, and fled to me, and he does not believe that he is his son, but that he is from angels. And behold, I have come to thee that thou mightest make known to me the very truth. Then I answered, saying The Lord will make a new command upon the earth; and in the same way, my son, I have seen and made known to thee.
31 For in the generation of Jared my father they transgressed the word of the Lord, departing from the covenant of heaven. And, behold, they sin and transgress the custom, and have to do with women and sin with them, and they have married wives from among them; and they bear children not like spirits but of flesh. And there shall be great wrath upon the earth, and a deluge; and there shall be great destruction for one year. And this child that is born shall be left, and his three sons shall be saved when they who are on the earth are dead; and he shall tame the earth from the corruption that is upon it. And now tell Lamech that he is his son in truth and holiness, and call his name Noah; for he shall be a remnant of you whereon ye shall rest, and his sons, from the corruption of the earth and from all the sinners and from all the wickedness on the earth.
32 The Lord has showed them and made them known to me, and I have read them in the tablets of heaven.
I Enoch 107
33 Then I beheld that which was written upon them, that one generation shall be worse than another; and this I saw until there shall arise a generation of righteousness, and wickedness shall perish, and sin shall depart from the earth and blessings shall come to them upon the earth. And now run, child, and make it known to Lamech thy son that this child that is born is his son in truth and not in falsehood. And when Methusaleh heard the words of Enoch his father—for he had revealed them to him secretly—he returned and revealed them to him. And his name was called Noah, comforting the earth after the destruction.
APPENDIX II
THE ENOCH BOOK OF GIANTS
RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS 4Q203, 1Q23, 2Q26, 4Q530-532, 6Q8
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
1 These fallen angels knew the secrets of all things. At this time sin was great on the earth. The wicked angels killed many people and begot giants with mortal women. The wicked former angels consumed everything that the earth produced: the great fish, the birds in the sky, all the fruit of the earth, all kinds of grain, the fruit of the trees, even beasts and reptiles they committed sin against – all the creeping things of the earth: they observed all earthly things.
2 They performed every harsh deed with harsh utterance upon male and female creation and upon humanity itself. Two hundred angels had been persuaded to leave heaven for the earth. The two hundred angels seized 200 hundred donkeys, 200 asses, 200 hundred sheep and rams of the flock, 200 goats, 200 beasts of the field from every animal and from every bird, for experiments in in-breeding with humans and all types of miscegenation.
3 As a result, monsters were created among all the perversion, due to mingling animal seed with mortal women. Similar to Egyptian Gods, satyrs and possibly even dinosaurs. The historian Josephus mentions that Enoch had business in Egypt, then called Siriad.
4 The monsters sought out flesh which would be destroyed or perverted. Monsters and giants would arise who were lacking in true knowledge because they were abominations. Meantime the earth grew ever more corrupt and the giants more mighty. They considered trying to persuade other angels to come upon the earth otherwise their tyranny might ultimately perish and die. All the time they were causing great corruption in the earth. If this aim did not suffice to perpetuate them, they would be finally destroyed; they believed. The fallen ones defiled all creation and begot giants and monstrous creatures, and corrupted all the earth, which was defiled by blood shedding, at the hands of the giants. But this did not suffice them and they were seeking all the time to devour much more.
5 The monsters attacked all creation. The giants are now troubled with portentous dreams, and Mahway reports his dream to the rest of the giants. Apparently, he sees a tablet inscribed with several names immersed in water, which only has three names remaining when it emerges. The usual interpretation is that this symbolizes the death of all on earth except Noah and his sons.
6 Mahway reported that men drenched the tablet in water so that it was covered. It was then lifted out and all the inscriptions but three had vanished. Mahway goes to the others. They discuss the dream. This vision is cause for cursing and sorrow, said the group. I, said Mahway, am the one who will be blamed most of the whole group, of those cast down out of heaven, and I shall have to go to hear the spirits of the slain complaining about their killers and crying out that we shall all die together and be made an end of, when I am sleeping and dreaming. Bread and dwelling will be denied me.
7 So, troubled with this vision, the monsters entered into the gathering of the giants. Then Ohya spoke without trembling to Mahway Who showed you all this vision, my brother? Barakel, my father, was with me as corroborator, and, it seemed, experienced the same vision. But before Mahway had finished telling what he had seen in his dream, Ohya said to him, Now I have heard wonders! If a barren woman gives birth – that would be an equal wonder! Thereupon Ohya said to Hahya, Are we to be destroyed upon this earth?
8 When they had finished discussing the dreams, both Ohya and Hahya wept before the assembled giants and monsters. Use your strength, the group counselled. Then Ohya said to Hayha, This doom is not for us but for Azazel, one of the wicked angels, for he showed most corruption to humanity. They surely will not let all their loved ones be neglected. We are not to be cast down.
9 You angels and monsters have strength and can resist. The giants however, realize that fighting heaven is futile.
10 Gilgamesh said, I am a giant, and by my mighty strength in my arm, I can vanquish anyone mortal. I have made war with them mortals in the past but I am not now able to stand against my opponents who reside in heaven, and dwell in holy places. And not only this, but they are in fact stronger than I am.
11 The day of the ravening wild beasts has come and that of the wild man as I am known. Then Ohya said to him, I have been forced to have a dream. The sleep of my eyes vanished so that I could see a vision. Now I know that on the field of battle we cannot win.
12 I saw a tree uprooted except for three of its roots. While I was as it were watching, some beings moved all the roots into this garden but not the three.
13 This dream vision concerns the death of our souls, said Ohya, and those of Gilgamesh and all his companions. However, Gilgamesh said to me that all the forebodings concerned only the rulers of earth, the temporal, powerful ones, whom the leader of the good angels has cursed. The giants were glad at his words. Then Ohya turned and left the assembly.
14 After this, two of them had visions; they were unable to sleep and they came to their comrades and told their dreams, to the assembly, their comrades, the monsters. They reported that in their dream they seemed to be observing a garden where gardeners were watering two hundred trees and large shoots came out of their roots.
15 Suddenly the garden became ablaze so that the garden was destroyed and all the water evaporated. Then they went to the giants to tell them of their dreams.
16 The suggestion was made to seek out the scribe and prophet Enoch to interpret the dreams. Let us seek out Enoch, the noted scribe, and he will interpret for us the dream.
17 Thereupon Ohya declared to the giants I too this night had another dream and behold the Ruler of Heaven came down to earth and made an end of us. Such is the ending of my dream.
18 Upon hearing this, all the monsters and giants grew afraid and called Mahway, the Titan. He came to meet the giants who pleaded with him and sent him to Enoch, the scribe. The giants said to him Go to Enoch so that he may speak to you and then return saying you have heard his voice.
19 Ohya spoke to Mahway, and said to him, Enoch will listen and interpret the dreams and tell us how long we giants have to live and rule on earth. After a journey through the heavens Mahway sees Enoch and speaks to him of his request. Mahway mounted up in the air as if upon strong winds, using his hands like eagle’s wings. He left behind the inhabited world and passed over the great desert of Desolation. Enoch saw him and hailed him.
20 Mahway told Enoch of his mission and said to him that he would speak with him. Flying here and there Enoch came a second time to Mahway; after he, Enoch, had warned Mahway about flying too near the sun; Mahway spoke to Enoch and said that the giants and all the monsters of the earth await his words. If the fall of the wicked angels has been carried out by divine Providence from their days of heavenly glory, can you at least assure us that the number of our days spent doing harm will be added to our lives. We wish to know the meaning of the two hundred trees that came down from heaven.
21 Enoch, having received Mahway’s request, tried to intercede with God but unavailingly. Accordingly, he presented Mahway with a tablet which was full of foreboding about the coming judgement, but which offered some hope for the future via repentance.
22 The scribe, Enoch, gave Mahway a copy of another tablet that bore Enoch`s own handwriting. The writing on the tablet said:
23 In the name of the great and holy God, this message is sent to, Shemihaza, and all his companions. Let it be known to you that you will not escape judgement for all the things that you have done, and that your wives, their sons, and the wives of their sons will not escape, and that by your licentiousness on the earth, there has been visited upon you a heavenly judgement. The land is crying out and complaining about you and the deeds of your children and about the harm you have done to it.
24 Until the heavenly angel Raphael, arrives, behold, destruction is coming by a great flood which will destroy all living things, whatever is in the deserts and the seas. The meaning of the dreams is by way of a judgement for all your evil. But if you now loosen the bonds binding you to evil and pray for forgiveness, you may be saved.
25 Raphael is an angel sent by God to fight against evil and especially Azazel.
26 Enoch said, A great fear seized me and I fell on my face. I heard his voice. Enoch dwelt among human beings but he did not learn from or rely on them.
1 These fallen angels knew the secrets of all things. At this time sin was great on the earth. The wicked angels killed many people and begot giants with mortal women. The wicked former angels consumed everything that the earth produced: the great fish, the birds in the sky, all the fruit of the earth, all kinds of grain, the fruit of the trees, even beasts and reptiles they committed sin against – all the creeping things of the earth: they observed all earthly things.
2 They performed every harsh deed with harsh utterance upon male and female creation and upon humanity itself. Two hundred angels had been persuaded to leave heaven for the earth. The two hundred angels seized 200 hundred donkeys, 200 asses, 200 hundred sheep and rams of the flock, 200 goats, 200 beasts of the field from every animal and from every bird, for experiments in in-breeding with humans and all types of miscegenation.
3 As a result, monsters were created among all the perversion, due to mingling animal seed with mortal women. Similar to Egyptian Gods, satyrs and possibly even dinosaurs. The historian Josephus mentions that Enoch had business in Egypt, then called Siriad.
4 The monsters sought out flesh which would be destroyed or perverted. Monsters and giants would arise who were lacking in true knowledge because they were abominations. Meantime the earth grew ever more corrupt and the giants more mighty. They considered trying to persuade other angels to come upon the earth otherwise their tyranny might ultimately perish and die. All the time they were causing great corruption in the earth. If this aim did not suffice to perpetuate them, they would be finally destroyed; they believed. The fallen ones defiled all creation and begot giants and monstrous creatures, and corrupted all the earth, which was defiled by blood shedding, at the hands of the giants. But this did not suffice them and they were seeking all the time to devour much more.
5 The monsters attacked all creation. The giants are now troubled with portentous dreams, and Mahway reports his dream to the rest of the giants. Apparently, he sees a tablet inscribed with several names immersed in water, which only has three names remaining when it emerges. The usual interpretation is that this symbolizes the death of all on earth except Noah and his sons.
6 Mahway reported that men drenched the tablet in water so that it was covered. It was then lifted out and all the inscriptions but three had vanished. Mahway goes to the others. They discuss the dream. This vision is cause for cursing and sorrow, said the group. I, said Mahway, am the one who will be blamed most of the whole group, of those cast down out of heaven, and I shall have to go to hear the spirits of the slain complaining about their killers and crying out that we shall all die together and be made an end of, when I am sleeping and dreaming. Bread and dwelling will be denied me.
7 So, troubled with this vision, the monsters entered into the gathering of the giants. Then Ohya spoke without trembling to Mahway Who showed you all this vision, my brother? Barakel, my father, was with me as corroborator, and, it seemed, experienced the same vision. But before Mahway had finished telling what he had seen in his dream, Ohya said to him, Now I have heard wonders! If a barren woman gives birth – that would be an equal wonder! Thereupon Ohya said to Hahya, Are we to be destroyed upon this earth?
8 When they had finished discussing the dreams, both Ohya and Hahya wept before the assembled giants and monsters. Use your strength, the group counselled. Then Ohya said to Hayha, This doom is not for us but for Azazel, one of the wicked angels, for he showed most corruption to humanity. They surely will not let all their loved ones be neglected. We are not to be cast down.
9 You angels and monsters have strength and can resist. The giants however, realize that fighting heaven is futile.
10 Gilgamesh said, I am a giant, and by my mighty strength in my arm, I can vanquish anyone mortal. I have made war with them mortals in the past but I am not now able to stand against my opponents who reside in heaven, and dwell in holy places. And not only this, but they are in fact stronger than I am.
11 The day of the ravening wild beasts has come and that of the wild man as I am known. Then Ohya said to him, I have been forced to have a dream. The sleep of my eyes vanished so that I could see a vision. Now I know that on the field of battle we cannot win.
12 I saw a tree uprooted except for three of its roots. While I was as it were watching, some beings moved all the roots into this garden but not the three.
13 This dream vision concerns the death of our souls, said Ohya, and those of Gilgamesh and all his companions. However, Gilgamesh said to me that all the forebodings concerned only the rulers of earth, the temporal, powerful ones, whom the leader of the good angels has cursed. The giants were glad at his words. Then Ohya turned and left the assembly.
14 After this, two of them had visions; they were unable to sleep and they came to their comrades and told their dreams, to the assembly, their comrades, the monsters. They reported that in their dream they seemed to be observing a garden where gardeners were watering two hundred trees and large shoots came out of their roots.
15 Suddenly the garden became ablaze so that the garden was destroyed and all the water evaporated. Then they went to the giants to tell them of their dreams.
16 The suggestion was made to seek out the scribe and prophet Enoch to interpret the dreams. Let us seek out Enoch, the noted scribe, and he will interpret for us the dream.
17 Thereupon Ohya declared to the giants I too this night had another dream and behold the Ruler of Heaven came down to earth and made an end of us. Such is the ending of my dream.
18 Upon hearing this, all the monsters and giants grew afraid and called Mahway, the Titan. He came to meet the giants who pleaded with him and sent him to Enoch, the scribe. The giants said to him Go to Enoch so that he may speak to you and then return saying you have heard his voice.
19 Ohya spoke to Mahway, and said to him, Enoch will listen and interpret the dreams and tell us how long we giants have to live and rule on earth. After a journey through the heavens Mahway sees Enoch and speaks to him of his request. Mahway mounted up in the air as if upon strong winds, using his hands like eagle’s wings. He left behind the inhabited world and passed over the great desert of Desolation. Enoch saw him and hailed him.
20 Mahway told Enoch of his mission and said to him that he would speak with him. Flying here and there Enoch came a second time to Mahway; after he, Enoch, had warned Mahway about flying too near the sun; Mahway spoke to Enoch and said that the giants and all the monsters of the earth await his words. If the fall of the wicked angels has been carried out by divine Providence from their days of heavenly glory, can you at least assure us that the number of our days spent doing harm will be added to our lives. We wish to know the meaning of the two hundred trees that came down from heaven.
21 Enoch, having received Mahway’s request, tried to intercede with God but unavailingly. Accordingly, he presented Mahway with a tablet which was full of foreboding about the coming judgement, but which offered some hope for the future via repentance.
22 The scribe, Enoch, gave Mahway a copy of another tablet that bore Enoch`s own handwriting. The writing on the tablet said:
23 In the name of the great and holy God, this message is sent to, Shemihaza, and all his companions. Let it be known to you that you will not escape judgement for all the things that you have done, and that your wives, their sons, and the wives of their sons will not escape, and that by your licentiousness on the earth, there has been visited upon you a heavenly judgement. The land is crying out and complaining about you and the deeds of your children and about the harm you have done to it.
24 Until the heavenly angel Raphael, arrives, behold, destruction is coming by a great flood which will destroy all living things, whatever is in the deserts and the seas. The meaning of the dreams is by way of a judgement for all your evil. But if you now loosen the bonds binding you to evil and pray for forgiveness, you may be saved.
25 Raphael is an angel sent by God to fight against evil and especially Azazel.
26 Enoch said, A great fear seized me and I fell on my face. I heard his voice. Enoch dwelt among human beings but he did not learn from or rely on them.
Here endeth the original Book of Enoch the Prophet translated from the Aramaic and Greek