Book of Enoch
Contents
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Part 1 -- Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Part 2 -- Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Part 3 -- Chapters 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Part 4 -- Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Part 5 -- Chapters 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
Book II (The Book of Parables)
Part 6 -- Chapter 37
Part 7 -- Chapters 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44
Part 8 -- Chapters 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57
Part 9 -- Chapters 58, 59
Part 10 -- Chapters 60, 61, 62, 63, 64
Part 11 -- Chapters 65, 66, 67, 68, 69
Part 12 -- Chapters 70, 71
Book III (The Astronomical Book)
Part 13 -- Chapter 72
Part 14 -- Chapters 73, 74, 75
Part 15 -- Chapters 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82
Book IV (The Book of Dreams)
Part 16 -- Chapter 83
Part 17 -- Chapters 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
Book V (The Epistle of Enoch)
Part 18 -- Chapter 91
Part 19 -- Chapters 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105
Part 20 -- Chapters 106, 107, 108
The Book of Watchers
Chapter 1
1 The words of the blessing of Enoch,
wherewith he blessed the elect and
righteous, who will be 2 living in the day
of tribulation, when all the wicked and
godless are to be removed. And he took
up his parable and said -Enoch a
righteous man, whose eyes were opened
by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in
the heavens, which the angels showed me,
and from them I heard everything, and
from them I understood as I saw, but not
for this generation, but for a remote one
which is for to come. 3 Concerning the
elect I said, and took up my parable
concerning them:
The Holy Great One will come forth from
His dwelling,
4 And the eternal God will tread upon the
earth, (even) on Mount Sinai,
[And appear from His camp]
And appear in the strength of His might
from the heaven of heavens.
5 And all shall be smitten with fear
And the Watchers shall quake,
And great fear and trembling shall seize
them unto the ends of the earth.
6 And the high mountains shall be shaken,
And the high hills shall be made low,
And shall melt like wax before the flame
7 And the earth shall be wholly rent in
sunder,
And all that is upon the earth shall perish,
And there shall be a judgement upon all
(men).
8 But with the righteous He will make
peace.
And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upon them.
And they shall all belong to God,
And they shall be prospered,
And they shall all be blessed.
And He will help them all,
And light shall appear unto them,
And He will make peace with them'.
9 And behold! He cometh with ten
thousands of His holy ones
To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy all the ungodly:
And to convict all flesh
Of all the works of their ungodliness
which they have ungodly committed,
And of all the hard things which ungodly
sinners have spoken against Him.
Chapter 2
1 Observe ye everything that takes place
in the heaven, how they do not change
their orbits, and the luminaries which are
in the heaven, how they all rise and set in
order each in its season, and 2 transgress
not against their appointed order. Behold
ye the earth, and give heed to the things
which take place upon it from first to last,
how steadfast they are, how none of the
things upon earth 3 change, but all the
works of God appear to you. Behold the
summer and the winter, how the whole
earth is filled with water, and clouds and
dew and rain lie upon it.
Chapter 3
1 Observe and see how (in the winter) all
the trees seem as though they had
withered and shed all their leaves, except
fourteen trees, which do not lose their
foliage but retain the old foliage from two
to three years till the new comes.
Chapter 4
1 And again, observe ye the days of
summer how the sun is above the earth
over against it. And you seek shade and
shelter by reason of the heat of the sun,
and the earth also burns with growing
heat, and so you cannot tread on the
earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.
Chapter 5
1 Observe ye how the trees cover
themselves with green leaves and bear
fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know
with regard to all His works, and
recognize how He that liveth for ever hath
made them so. 2 and all His works go on
thus from year to year for ever, and all the
tasks which they accomplish for Him, and
their tasks change not, but according as
God hath ordained so is it done. 3 And
behold how the sea and the rivers in like
manner accomplish and change not their
tasks from His commandments'.
4 But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor
done the commandments of the Lord,
But ye have turned away and spoken
proud and hard words
With your impure mouths against His
greatness.
Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no
peace.
5 Therefore shall ye execrate your days,
And the years of your life shall perish,
And the years of your destruction shall be
multiplied in eternal execration,
And ye shall find no mercy.
6a In those days ye shall make your
names an eternal execration unto all the
righteous,
b And by you shall all who curse, curse,
And all the sinners and godless shall
imprecate by you,
7c And for you the godless there shall be
a curse.
6d And all the . . . shall rejoice,
e And there shall be forgiveness of sins,
f And every mercy and peace and
forbearance:
g There shall be salvation unto them, a
goodly light.
I And for all of you sinners there shall be
no salvation,
j But on you all shall abide a curse.
7a But for the elect there shall be light and
joy and peace,
b And they shall inherit the earth.
8 And then there shall be bestowed upon
the elect wisdom,
And they shall all live and never again sin,
Either through ungodliness or through
pride:
But they who are wise shall be humble.
9 And they shall not again transgress,
Nor shall they sin all the days of their life,
Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or
wrath,
But they shall complete the number of the
days of their life.
And their lives shall be increased in peace,
And the years of their joy shall be
multiplied,
In eternal gladness and peace,
All the days of their life.
Chapter 6
1 And it came to pass when the children
of men had multiplied that in those days
were born unto them beautiful and comely
daughters. 2 And the angels, the children
of the heaven, saw and lusted after them,
and said to one another: 'Come, let us
choose us wives from among the children
of men 3 and beget us children.' And
Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto
them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to
do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay
the penalty of a great sin.' And they all
answered him and said: 'Let us all swear
an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual
imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan
but to do this thing.' Then sware they all
together and bound themselves 6 by
mutual imprecations upon it. And they
were in all two hundred; who descended
in the days of Jared on the summit of
Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount
Hermon, because they had sworn 7 and
bound themselves by mutual imprecations
upon it. And these are the names of their
leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba,
Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel,
Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros,
Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel,
Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are
their chiefs of tens.
Chapter 7
1 And all the others together with them
took unto themselves wives, and each
chose for himself one, and they began to
go in unto them and to defile themselves
with them, and they taught them charms 2
and enchantments, and the cutting of
roots, and made them acquainted with
plants. And they 3 became pregnant, and
they bare great giants, whose height was
three thousand ells: Who consumed 4 all
the acquisitions of men. And when men
could no longer sustain them, the giants
turned against 5 them and devoured
mankind. And they began to sin against
birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and 6 fish,
and to devour one another's flesh, and
drink the blood. Then the earth laid
accusation against the lawless ones.
Chapter 8
1 And Azazel taught men to make
swords, and knives, and shields, and
breastplates, and made known to them
the metals of the earth and the art of
working them, and bracelets, and
ornaments, and the use of antimony, and
the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds
of costly stones, and all 2 colouring
tinctures. And there arose much
godlessness, and they committed
fornication, and they 3 were led astray,
and became corrupt in all their ways.
Semjaza taught enchantments, and
root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of
enchantments, Baraqijal (taught)
astrology, Kokabel the constellations,
Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds,
Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the
signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of
the moon. And as men perished, they
cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .
Chapter 9
1 And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and
Gabriel looked down from heaven and
saw much blood being 2 shed upon the
earth, and all lawlessness being wrought
upon the earth. And they said one to
another: 'The earth made without
inhabitant cries the voice of their cryingst
up to the gates of heaven. 3 And now to
you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of
men make their suit, saying, "Bring our
cause 4 before the Most High."' And they
said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of
lords, God of gods, King of kings, and
God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory
(standeth) unto all the generations of the 5
ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and
blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made
all things, and power over all things hast
Thou: and all things are naked and open in
Thy sight, and Thou seest all 6 things, and
nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou
seest what Azazel hath done, who hath
taught all unrighteousness on earth and
revealed the eternal secrets which were
(preserved) in heaven, which 7 men were
striving to learn: And Semjaza, to whom
Thou hast given authority to bear rule over
his associates. And they have gone to the
daughters of men upon the earth, and
have slept with the 9 women, and have
defiled themselves, and revealed to them
all kinds of sins. And the women have 10
borne giants, and the whole earth has
thereby been filled with blood and
unrighteousness. And now, behold, the
souls of those who have died are crying
and making their suit to the gates of
heaven, and their lamentations have
ascended: and cannot cease because of
the lawless deeds which are 11 wrought
on the earth. And Thou knowest all things
before they come to pass, and Thou seest
these things and Thou dost suffer them,
and Thou dost not say to us what we are
to do to them in regard to these.'
Chapter 10
1 Then said the Most High, the Holy and
Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the
son of Lamech, 2 and said to him: Go to
Noah and tell him in my name "Hide
thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is
approaching: that the whole earth will be
destroyed, and a deluge is about to come
3 upon the whole earth, and will destroy
all that is on it. And now instruct him that
he may escape 4 and his seed may be
preserved for all the generations of the
world. And again the Lord said to
Raphael: Bind Azazel hand and foot, and
cast him into the darkness: and make an
opening 5 in the desert, which is in
Dudael, and cast him therein. And place
upon him rough and jagged rocks, and
cover him with darkness, and let him
abide there for ever, and cover his face
that he may 6,7 not see light. And on the
day of the great judgement he shall be
cast into the fire. And heal the earth which
the angels have corrupted, and proclaim
the healing of the earth, that they may heal
the plague, and that all the children of men
may not perish through all the secret things
that the 8 Watchers have disclosed and
have taught their sons. And the whole
earth has been corrupted 9 through the
works that were taught by Azazel: to him
ascribe all sin. And to Gabriel said the
Lord: Proceed against the bastards and
the reprobates, and against the children of
fornication: and destroy [the children of
fornication and] the children of the
Watchers from amongst men [and cause
them to go forth]: send them one against
the other that they may destroy each other
in 10 battle: for length of days shall they
not have. And no request that they (i.e.
their fathers) make of thee shall be
granted unto their fathers on their behalf;
for they hope to live an eternal life, and 11
that each one of them will live five
hundred years. And the Lord said unto
Michael: Go, bind Semjaza and his
associates who have united themselves
with women so as to have defiled
themselves 12 with them in all their
uncleanness. And when their sons have
slain one another, and they have seen the
destruction of their beloved ones, bind
them fast for seventy generations in the
valleys of the earth, till the day of their
judgement and of their consummation, till
the judgement that is 13 for ever and ever
is consummated. In those days they shall
be led off to the abyss of fire: and 14 to
the torment and the prison in which they
shall be confined for ever. And
whosoever shall be condemned and
destroyed will from thenceforth be bound
together with them to the end of all 15
generations. And destroy all the spirits of
the reprobate and the children of the
Watchers, because 16 they have wronged
mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face
of the earth and let every evil work come
to an end: and let the plant of
righteousness and truth appear: and it shall
prove a blessing; the works of
righteousness and truth shall be planted in
truth and joy for evermore.
17 And then shall all the righteous escape,
And shall live till they beget thousands of
children,
And all the days of their youth and their
old age
Shall they complete in peace.
18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled
in righteousness, and shall all be planted
with trees and 19 be full of blessing. And
all desirable trees shall be planted on it,
and they shall plant vines on it: and the
vine which they plant thereon shall yield
wine in abundance, and as for all the seed
which is sown thereon each measure (of
it) shall bear a thousand, and each
measure of olives shall yield 20 ten
presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth
from all oppression, and from all
unrighteousness, and from all sin, and
from all godlessness: and all the
uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth
21 destroy from off the earth. And all the
children of men shall become righteous,
and all nations 22 shall offer adoration and
shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me.
And the earth shall be cleansed from all
defilement, and from all sin, and from all
punishment, and from all torment, and I
will never again send (them) upon it from
generation to generation and for ever.
Chapter 11
1 And in those days I will open the store
chambers of blessing which are in the
heaven, so as to send 2 them down upon
the earth over the work and labour of the
children of men. And truth and peace shall
be associated together throughout all the
days of the world and throughout all the
generations of men.
Chapter 12
1 Before these things Enoch was hidden,
and no one of the children of men knew
where he was 2 hidden, and where he
abode, and what had become of him. And
his activities had to do with the Watchers,
and his days were with the holy ones. 3
And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of
majesty and the King of the ages, and lo!
the Watchers 4 called me -Enoch the
scribe- and said to me: 'Enoch, thou
scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the
Watchers of the heaven who have left the
high heaven, the holy eternal place, and
have defiled themselves with women, and
have done as the children of earth do, and
have taken unto themselves 5 wives: "Ye
have wrought great destruction on the
earth: And ye shall have no peace nor
forgiveness 6 of sin: and inasmuch as they
delight themselves in their children, The
murder of their beloved ones shall they
see, and over the destruction of their
children shall they lament, and shall make
supplication unto eternity, but mercy and
peace shall ye not attain."
Chapter 13
1 And Enoch went and said: Azazel, thou
shalt have no peace: a severe sentence
has gone forth 2 against thee to put thee in
bonds: And thou shalt not have toleration
nor request granted to thee, because of
the unrighteousness which thou hast
taught, and because of all the works of
godlessness 3 and unrighteousness and sin
which thou hast shown to men. Then I
went and spoke to them all 4 together,
and they were all afraid, and fear and
trembling seized them. And they besought
me to draw up a petition for them that
they might find forgiveness, and to read
their petition in the presence 5 of the Lord
of heaven. For from thenceforward they
could not speak (with Him) nor lift up
their 6 eyes to heaven for shame of their
sins for which they had been condemned.
Then I wrote out their petition, and the
prayer in regard to their spirits and their
deeds individually and in regard to their 7
requests that they should have forgiveness
and length. And I went off and sat down
at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan,
to the south of the west of Hermon: I read
their petition till I fell 8 asleep. And behold
a dream came to me, and visions fell
down upon me, and I saw visions of
chastisement, and a voice came bidding
(me) I to tell it to the sons of heaven, and
reprimand them. 9 And when I awaked, I
came unto them, and they were all sitting
gathered together, weeping in 10
Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and
Seneser, with their faces covered. And I
recounted before them all the visions
which I had seen in sleep, and I began to
speak the words of righteousness, and to
reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
Chapter 14
1 The book of the words of
righteousness, and of the reprimand of the
eternal Watchers in accordance 2 with the
command of the Holy Great One in that
vision. I saw in my sleep what I will now
say with a tongue of flesh and with the
breath of my mouth: which the Great One
has given to men to 3 converse therewith
and understand with the heart. As He has
created and given to man the power of
understanding the word of wisdom, so
hath He created me also and given me the
power of reprimanding 4 the Watchers,
the children of heaven. I wrote out your
petition, and in my vision it appeared thus,
that your petition will not be granted unto
you throughout all the days of eternity,
and that judgement 5 has been finally
passed upon you: yea (your petition) will
not be granted unto you. And from
henceforth you shall not ascend into
heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of
the earth the decree 6 has gone forth to
bind you for all the days of the world.
And (that) previously you shall have seen
the destruction of your beloved sons and
ye shall have no pleasure in them, but they
shall fall before 7 you by the sword. And
your petition on their behalf shall not be
granted, nor yet on your own: even though
you weep and pray and speak all the
words contained in the writing which I
have 8 written. And the vision was shown
to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds
invited me and a mist summoned me, and
the course of the stars and the lightnings
sped and hastened me, and the winds in 9
the vision caused me to fly and lifted me
upward, and bore me into heaven. And I
went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is
built of crystals and surrounded by
tongues of fire: and it began to affright 10
me. And I went into the tongues of fire
and drew nigh to a large house which was
built of crystals: and the walls of the house
were like a tesselated floor (made) of
crystals, and its groundwork was 11 of
crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the
stars and the lightnings, and between them
were 12 fiery cherubim, and their heaven
was (clear as) water. A flaming fire
surrounded the walls, and its 13 portals
blazed with fire. And I entered into that
house, and it was hot as fire and cold as
ice: there 14 were no delights of life
therein: fear covered me, and trembling
got hold upon me. And as I quaked 15
and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I
beheld a vision, And lo! there was a
second house, greater 16 than the former,
and the entire portal stood open before
me, and it was built of flames of fire. And
in every respect it so excelled in splendour
and magnificence and extent that I cannot
describe to 17 you its splendour and its
extent. And its floor was of fire, and
above it were lightnings and the path 18 of
the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming
fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty
throne: its appearance was as crystal, and
the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and
there was the vision of 19 cherubim. And
from underneath the throne came streams
of flaming fire so that I could not look 20
thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon,
and His raiment shone more brightly than
the sun and 21 was whiter than any snow.
None of the angels could enter and could
behold His face by reason 22 of the
magnificence and glory and no flesh could
behold Him. The flaming fire was round
about Him, and a great fire stood before
Him, and none around could draw nigh
Him: ten thousand times 23 ten thousand
(stood) before Him, yet He needed no
counselor. And the most holy ones who
were 24 nigh to Him did not leave by
night nor depart from Him. And until then
I had been prostrate on my face,
trembling: and the Lord called me with His
own mouth, and said to me: ' Come
hither, 25 Enoch, and hear my word.' And
one of the holy ones came to me and
waked me, and He made me rise up and
approach the door: and I bowed my face
downwards.
Chapter 15
1 And He answered and said to me, and I
heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou
righteous 2 man and scribe of
righteousness: approach hither and hear
my voice. And go, say to the Watchers of
heaven, who have sent thee to intercede
for them: "You should intercede" for men,
and not men 3 for you: Wherefore have
ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven,
and lain with women, and defiled
yourselves with the daughters of men and
taken to yourselves wives, and done like
the children 4 of earth, and begotten
giants (as your) sons? And though ye
were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life,
you have defiled yourselves with the
blood of women, and have begotten
(children) with the blood of flesh, and, as
the children of men, have lusted after flesh
and blood as those also do who die 5 and
perish. Therefore have I given them wives
also that they might impregnate them, and
beget 6 children by them, that thus nothing
might be wanting to them on earth. But
you were formerly 7 spiritual, living the
eternal life, and immortal for all
generations of the world. And therefore I
have not appointed wives for you; for as
for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in
heaven is their dwelling. 8 And now, the
giants, who are produced from the spirits
and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon 9
the earth, and on the earth shall be their
dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from
their bodies; because they are born from
men and from the holy Watchers is their
beginning and primal origin; 10 they shall
be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall
they be called. [As for the spirits of
heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling,
but as for the spirits of the earth which
were born upon the earth, on the earth
shall be their dwelling.] And the spirits of
the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack,
do battle, and work destruction on the
earth, and cause trouble: they take no
food, but nevertheless 12 hunger and
thirst, and cause offences. And these
spirits shall rise up against the children of
men and against the women, because they
have proceeded from them.
Chapter 16
1 From the days of the slaughter and
destruction and death of the giants, from
the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having
gone forth, shall destroy without incurring
judgement -thus shall they destroy until the
day of the consummation, the great
judgement in which the age shall be 2
consummated, over the Watchers and the
godless, yea, shall be wholly
consummated." And now as to the
watchers who have sent thee to intercede
for them, who had been aforetime in
heaven, (say 3 to them): "You have been
in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet
been revealed to you, and you knew
worthless ones, and these in the hardness
of your hearts you have made known to
the women, and through these mysteries
women and men work much evil on
earth." 4 Say to them therefore: " You
have no peace."'
Chapter 17
1 And they took and brought me to a
place in which those who were there were
like flaming fire, 2 and, when they wished,
they appeared as men. And they brought
me to the place of darkness, and to a
mountain the point of whose summit
reached to heaven. And I saw the places
of the luminaries and the treasuries of the
stars and of the thunder and in the
uttermost depths, where were 4 a fiery
bow and arrows and their quiver, and a
fiery sword and all the lightnings. And they
took 5 me to the living waters, and to the
fire of the west, which receives every
setting of the sun. And I came to a river of
fire in which the fire flows like water and
discharges itself into the great sea towards
6 the west. I saw the great rivers and
came to the great river and to the great
darkness, and went 7 to the place where
no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the
darkness of winter and the place 8
whence all the waters of the deep flow. I
saw the mouths of all the rivers of the
earth and the mouth of the deep.
Chapter 18
1 I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I
saw how He had furnished with them the
whole creation 2 and the firm foundations
of the earth. And I saw the corner-stone
of the earth: I saw the four 3 winds which
bear [the earth and] the firmament of the
heaven. And I saw how the winds stretch
out the vaults of heaven, and have their
station between heaven and earth: these
are the pillars 4 of the heaven. I saw the
winds of heaven which turn and bring the
circumference of the sun and 5 all the
stars to their setting. I saw the winds on
the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the
paths 6 of the angels. I saw at the end of
the earth the firmament of the heaven
above. And I proceeded and saw a place
which burns day and night, where there
are seven mountains of magnificent stones,
7 three towards the east, and three
towards the south. And as for those
towards the east, was of coloured stone,
and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and
those towards the south of red stone. 8
But the middle one reached to heaven like
the throne of God, of alabaster, and the
summit of the 9,10 throne was of
sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire. And
beyond these mountains Is a region the
end of the great earth: there the heavens
were completed. And I saw a deep
abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and
among them I saw columns of fire fall,
which were beyond measure alike
towards 12 the height and towards the
depth. And beyond that abyss I saw a
place which had no firmament of the
heaven above, and no firmly founded
earth beneath it: there was no water upon
it, and no 13 birds, but it was a waste and
horrible place. I saw there seven stars like
great burning mountains, 14 and to me,
when I inquired regarding them, The angel
said: 'This place is the end of heaven and
earth: this has become a prison for the
stars and the host of heaven. And the
stars which roll over the fire are they
which have transgressed the
commandment of the Lord in the
beginning of 16 their rising, because they
did not come forth at their appointed
times. And He was wroth with them, and
bound them till the time when their guilt
should be consummated (even) for ten
thousand years.'
Chapter 19
1 And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand
the angels who have connected
themselves with women, and their spirits
assuming many different forms are defiling
mankind and shall lead them astray into
sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall
they stand,) till the day of the great
judgement in 2 which they shall be judged
till they are made an end of. And the
women also of the angels who 3 went
astray shall become sirens.' And I, Enoch,
alone saw the vision, the ends of all things:
and no man shall see as I have seen.
Chapter 20
1,2 And these are the names of the holy
angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy
angels, who is 3 over the world and over
Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels,
who is over the spirits of men. 4,5 Raguel,
one of the holy angels who takes
vengeance on the world of the luminaries.
Michael, one 6 of the holy angels, to wit,
he that is set over the best part of
mankind and over chaos. Saraqael, 7 one
of the holy angels, who is set over the
spirits, who sin in the spirit. Gabriel, one
of the holy 8 angels, who is over Paradise
and the serpents and the Cherubim.
Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom
God set over those who rise.
Chapter 21
1,2 And I proceeded to where things
were chaotic. And I saw there something
horrible: I saw neither 3 a heaven above
nor a firmly founded earth, but a place
chaotic and horrible. And there I saw 4
seven stars of the heaven bound together
in it, like great mountains and burning with
fire. Then 5 I said: 'For what sin are they
bound, and on what account have they
been cast in hither?' Then said Uriel, one
of the holy angels, who was with me, and
was chief over them, and said: 'Enoch,
why 6 dost thou ask, and why art thou
eager for the truth? These are of the
number of the stars of heaven, which have
transgressed the commandment of the
Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand
years, 7 the time entailed by their sins, are
consummated.' And from thence I went to
another place, which was still more
horrible than the former, and I saw a
horrible thing: a great fire there which
burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft
as far as the abyss, being full of great
descending columns of 8 fire: neither its
extent or magnitude could I see, nor could
I conjecture. Then I said: 'How 9 fearful is
the place and how terrible to look upon!'
Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy
angels who was with me, and said unto
me: 'Enoch, why hast thou such fear and
affright?' And 10 I answered: 'Because of
this fearful place, and because of the
spectacle of the pain.' And he said unto
me: 'This place is the prison of the angels,
and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'
Chapter 22
1 And thence I went to another place, and
he mountain [and] of hard rock. 2 And
there was in it four hollow places, deep
and wide and very smooth. How smooth
are the hollow places and deep and dark
to look at. 3 Then Raphael answered, one
of the holy angels who was with me, and
said unto me: 'These hollow places have
been created for this very purpose, that
the spirits of the souls of the dead should
4 assemble therein, yea that all the souls
of the children of men should assemble
here. And these places have been made
to receive them till the day of their
judgement and till their appointed period
[till the period appointed], till the great
judgement (comes) upon them.' I saw (the
spirit of) a dead man making suit, 5 and
his voice went forth to heaven and made
suit. And I asked Raphael the angel who
was 6 with me, and I said unto him: 'This
spirit which maketh suit, whose is it,
whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit
to heaven ?' 7 And he answered me
saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth
from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew,
and he makes his suit against him till his
seed is destroyed from the face of the
earth, and his seed is annihilated from
amongst the seed of men.' 8 The I asked
regarding it, and regarding all the hollow
places: 'Why is one separated from the
other?' 9 And he answered me and said
unto me: 'These three have been made
that the spirits of the dead might be
separated. And such a division has been
make (for) the spirits of the righteous, in
which there is the bright spring of 10
water. And such has been made for
sinners when they die and are buried in
the earth and judgement has not been
executed on them in their 11 lifetime. Here
their spirits shall be set apart in this great
pain till the great day of judgement and
punishment and torment of those who
curse for ever and retribution for their
spirits. There 12 He shall bind them for
ever. And such a division has been made
for the spirits of those who make their
suit, who make disclosures concerning
their destruction, when they were slain in
the days 13 of the sinners. Such has been
made for the spirits of men who were not
righteous but sinners, who were complete
in transgression, and of the transgressors
they shall be companions: but their spirits
shall not be slain in the day of judgement
nor shall they be raised from thence.' 14
The I blessed the Lord of glory and said:
'Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of
righteousness, who ruleth for ever.'
Chapter 23
1,2 From thence I went to another place
to the west of the ends of the earth. And I
saw a burning 3 fire which ran without
resting, and paused not from its course
day or night but (ran) regularly. And 4 I
asked saying: 'What is this which rests
not?' Then Raguel, one of the holy angels
who was with me, answered me and said
unto me: 'This course of fire which thou
hast seen is the fire in the west which
persecutes all the luminaries of heaven.'
Chapter 24
1 And from thence I went to another
place of the earth, and he showed me a
mountain range of 2 fire which burnt day
and night. And I went beyond it and saw
seven magnificent mountains all differing
each from the other, and the stones
(thereof) were magnificent and beautiful,
magnificent as a whole, of glorious
appearance and fair exterior: three
towards the east, one founded on the
other, and three towards the south, one
upon the other, and deep rough ravines,
no one of which 3 joined with any other.
And the seventh mountain was in the
midst of these, and it excelled them 4 in
height, resembling the seat of a throne:
and fragrant trees encircled the throne.
And amongst them was a tree such as I
had never yet smelt, neither was any
amongst them nor were others like it: it
had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and
its leaves and blooms and wood wither
not for ever: 5 and its fruit is beautiful, and
its fruit n resembles the dates of a palm.
Then I said: 'How beautiful is this tree,
and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its
blooms very delightful in appearance.' 6
Then answered Michael, one of the holy
and honoured angels who was with me,
and was their leader.
Chapter 25
1 And he said unto me: 'Enoch, why dost
thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the
tree, 2 and why dost thou wish to learn
the truth?' Then I answered him saying: 'I
wish to 3 know about everything, but
especially about this tree.' And he
answered saying: 'This high mountain
which thou hast seen, whose summit is
like the throne of God, is His throne,
where the Holy Great One, the Lord of
Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He
shall come down to visit 4 the earth with
goodness. And as for this fragrant tree no
mortal is permitted to touch it till the great
judgement, when He shall take vengeance
on all and bring (everything) to its
consummation 5 for ever. It shall then be
given to the righteous and holy. Its fruit
shall be for food to the elect: it shall be
transplanted to the holy place, to the
temple of the Lord, the Eternal King.
6 Then shall they rejoice with joy and be
glad,
And into the holy place shall they enter;
And its fragrance shall be in their bones,
And they shall live a long life on earth,
Such as thy fathers lived:
And in their days shall no sorrow or
plague
Or torment or calamity touch them.'
7 Then blessed I the God of Glory, the
Eternal King, who hath prepared such
things for the righteous, and hath created
them and promised to give to them.
Chapter 26
1 And I went from thence to the middle of
the earth, and I saw a blessed place in
which there were 2 trees with branches
abiding and blooming [of a dismembered
tree]. And there I saw a holy mountain, 3
and underneath the mountain to the east
there was a stream and it flowed towards
the south. And I saw towards the east
another mountain higher than this, and
between them a deep and narrow 4
ravine: in it also ran a stream underneath
the mountain. And to the west thereof
there was another mountain, lower than
the former and of small elevation, and a
ravine deep and dry between them: and
another deep and dry ravine was at the
extremities of the three mountains. And all
the ravines were deep rand narrow,
(being formed) of hard rock, and trees
were not planted upon 6 them. And I
marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at
the ravine, yea, I marveled very much.
Chapter 27
1 Then said I: 'For what object is this
blessed land, which is entirely filled with
trees, and this 2 accursed valley
between?' Then Uriel, one of the holy
angels who was with me, answered and
said: 'This accursed valley is for those
who are accursed for ever: Here shall all
the accursed be gathered together who
utter with their lips against the Lord
unseemly words and of His glory speak
hard things. Here shall they be gathered
together, and here 3 shall be their place of
judgement. In the last days there shall be
upon them the spectacle of righteous
judgement in the presence of the righteous
for ever: here shall the merciful bless the
Lord of glory, the Eternal King. 4 In the
days of judgement over the former, they
shall bless Him for the mercy in
accordance with 5 which He has assigned
them (their lot).' Then I blessed the Lord
of Glory and set forth His glory and
lauded Him gloriously.
Chapter 28
1 And thence I went towards the east,
into the midst of the mountain range of the
desert, and 2 I saw a wilderness and it
was solitary, full of trees and plants. And
water gushed forth from 3 above. Rushing
like a copious watercourse [which
flowed] towards the north-west it caused
clouds and dew to ascend on every side.
Chapter 29
1 And thence I went to another place in
the desert, and approached to the east of
this mountain 2 range. And there I saw
aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of
frankincense and myrrh, and the trees also
were similar to the almond tree.
Chapter 30
1,2 And beyond these, I went afar to the
east, and I saw another place, a valley
(full) of water. And 3 therein there was a
tree, the colour (?) of fragrant trees such
as the mastic. And on the sides of those
valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And
beyond these I proceeded to the east.
Chapter 31
1 And I saw other mountains, and
amongst them were groves of trees, and
there flowed forth from 2 them nectar,
which is named sarara and galbanum. And
beyond these mountains I saw another
mountain to the east of the ends of the
earth, whereon were aloe-trees, and all
the trees were full 3 of stacte, being like
almond-trees. And when one burnt it, it
smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
Chapter 32
1 And after these fragrant odours, as I
looked towards the north over the
mountains I saw seven mountains full of
choice nard and fragrant trees and
cinnamon and pepper. 2 And thence I
went over the summits of all these
mountains, far towards the east of the
earth, and passed above the Erythraean
sea and went far from it, and passed over
the angel Zotiel. And I came to the
Garden of Righteousness, 3 I and from
afar off trees more numerous than I these
trees and great-two trees there, very
great, beautiful, and glorious, and
magnificent, and the tree of knowledge,
whose holy fruit they eat and know great
wisdom. 4 That tree is in height like the fir,
and its leaves are like (those of) the
Carob tree: and its fruit 5 is like the
clusters of the vine, very beautiful: and the
fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. Then
6 I said: 'How beautiful is the tree, and
how attractive is its look!' Then Raphael
the holy angel, who was with me,
answered me and said: 'This is the tree of
wisdom, of which thy father old (in years)
and thy aged mother, who were before
thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom
and their eyes were opened, and they
knew that they were naked and they were
driven out of the garden.'
Chapter 33
1 And from thence I went to the ends of
the earth and saw there great beasts, and
each differed from the other; and (I saw)
birds also differing in appearance and
beauty and voice, the one differing from
the other. And to the east of those beasts
I saw the ends of the earth whereon the
heaven 2 rests, and the portals of the
heaven open. And I saw how the stars of
heaven come forth, and 3 I counted the
portals out of which they proceed, and
wrote down all their outlets, of each
individual star by itself, according to their
number and their names, their courses and
their positions, and their 4 times and their
months, as Uriel the holy angel who was
with me showed me. He showed all things
to me and wrote them down for me: also
their names he wrote for me, and their
laws and their companies.
Chapter 34
1 And from thence I went towards the
north to the ends of the earth, and there I
saw a great and 2 glorious device at the
ends of the whole earth. And here I saw
three portals of heaven open in the
heaven: through each of them proceed
north winds: when they blow there is cold,
hail, frost, 3 snow, dew, and rain. And out
of one portal they blow for good: but
when they blow through the other two
portals, it is with violence and affliction on
the earth, and they blow with violence.
The Book of Parables
Chapter 35
1 And from thence I went towards the
west to the ends of the earth, and saw
there three portals of the heaven open
such as I had seen in the east, the same
number of portals, and the same number
of outlets.
Chapter 36
1 And from thence I went to the south to
the ends of the earth, and saw there three
open portals 2 of the heaven: and thence
there come dew, rain, and wind. And
from thence I went to the east to the ends
of the heaven, and saw here the three
eastern portals of heaven open and small
portals 3 above them. Through each of
these small portals pass the stars of
heaven and run their course to the west on
the path which is shown to them. And as
often as I saw I blessed always the Lord
of Glory, and I continued to bless the
Lord of Glory who has wrought great and
glorious wonders, to show the greatness
of His work to the angels and to spirits
and to men, that they might praise His
work and all His creation: that they might
see the work of His might and praise the
great work of His hands and bless Him
for ever.
Chapter 37
1 The second vision which he saw, the
vision of wisdom -which Enoch the son of
Jared, the son 2 of Mahalalel, the son of
Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth,
the son of Adam, saw. And this is the
beginning of the words of wisdom which I
lifted up my voice to speak and say to
those which dwell on earth: Hear, ye men
of old time, and see, ye that come after,
the words of the Holy 3 One which I will
speak before the Lord of Spirits. It were
better to declare (them only) to the men of
old time, but even from those that come
after we will not withhold the beginning of
wisdom. 4 Till the present day such
wisdom has never been given by the Lord
of Spirits as I have received according to
my insight, according to the good pleasure
of the Lord of Spirits by whom the lot of
5 eternal life has been given to me. Now
three Parables were imparted to me, and I
lifted up my voice and recounted them to
those that dwell on the earth.
Chapter 38
1 The first Parable.
When the congregation of the righteous
shall appear,
And sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the
earth:
2 And when the Righteous One shall
appear before the eyes of the righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon the Lord
of Spirits,
And light shall appear to the righteous and
the elect who dwell on the earth,
Where then will be the dwelling of the
sinners,
And where the resting-place of those who
have denied the Lord of Spirits?
It had been good for them if they had not
been born.
3 When the secrets of the righteous shall
be revealed and the sinners judged,
And the godless driven from the presence
of the righteous and elect,
4 From that time those that possess the
earth shall no longer be powerful and
exalted:
And they shall not be able to behold the
face of the holy,
For the Lord of Spirits has caused His
light to appear
On the face of the holy, righteous, and
elect.
5 Then shall the kings and the mighty
perish
And be given into the hands of the
righteous and holy.
6 And thenceforward none shall seek for
themselves mercy from the Lord of Spirits
For their life is at an end.
Chapter 39
1 And it shall come to pass in those days
that elect and holy children will descend
from the 2 high heaven, and their seed will
become one with the children of men.
And in those days Enoch received books
of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet
and expulsion.
And mercy shall not be accorded to them,
saith the Lord of Spirits.
3 And in those days a whirlwind carried
me off from the earth,
And set me down at the end of the
heavens.
4 And there I saw another vision, the
dwelling-places of the holy,
And the resting-places of the righteous.
5 Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with
His righteous angels,
And their resting-places with the holy.
And they petitioned and interceded and
prayed for the children of men,
And righteousness flowed before them as
water,
And mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.
6a And in that place mine eyes saw the
Elect One of righteousness and of faith,
7a And I saw his dwelling-place under the
wings of the Lord of Spirits.
6b And righteousness shall prevail in his
days,
And the righteous and elect shall be
without number before Him for ever and
ever.
7b And all the righteous and elect before
Him shall be strong as fiery lights,
And their mouth shall be full of blessing,
And their lips extol the name of the Lord
of Spirits,
And righteousness before Him shall never
fail,
[And uprightness shall never fail before
Him.]
8 There I wished to dwell,
And my spirit longed for that
dwelling-place:
And there heretofore hath been my
portion,
For so has it been established concerning
me before the Lord of Spirits.
9 In those days I praised and extolled the
name of the Lord of Spirits with blessings
and praises, because He hath destined me
for blessing and glory according to the
good pleasure of the Lord of 10 Spirits.
For a long time my eyes regarded that
place, and I blessed Him and praised
Him, saying: Blessed is He, and may He
be blessed from the beginning and for
evermore. And before Him there is no
ceasing. He knows before the world was
created what is for ever and what will be
from 12 generation unto generation.
Those who sleep not bless Thee: they
stand before Thy glory and bless, praise,
and extol, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, is the
Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with 3
spirits." And here my eyes saw all those
who sleep not: they stand before Him and
bless and say: Blessed be Thou, and
blessed be the name of the Lord for ever
and ever. And my face was changed; for I
could no longer behold.
Chapter 40
1 And after that I saw thousands of
thousands and ten thousand times ten
thousand, I saw a multitude 2 beyond
number and reckoning, who stood before
the Lord of Spirits. And on the four sides
of the Lord of Spirits I saw four
presences, different from those that sleep
not, and I learnt their names: for the angel
that went with me made known to me
their names, and showed me all the hidden
things. 3 And I heard the voices of those
four presences as they uttered praises
before the Lord of glory. 4,5 The first
voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for ever
and ever. And the second voice I heard
blessing 6 the Elect One and the elect
ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits.
And the third voice I heard pray and
intercede for those who dwell on the earth
and supplicate in the name of the Lord of
Spirits. 7 And I heard the fourth voice
fending off the Satans and forbidding them
to come before the Lord 8 of Spirits to
accuse them who dwell on the earth. After
that I asked the angel of peace who went
with me, who showed me everything that
is hidden: Who are these four presences
which I have 9 seen and whose words I
have heard and written down? And he
said to me: This first is Michael, the
merciful and long-suffering: and the
second, who is set over all the diseases
and all the wounds of the children of men,
is Raphael: and the third, who is set over
all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth,
who is set over the repentance unto hope
of those who inherit eternal life, is named
Phanuel. 10 And these are the four angels
of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I
heard in those days.
Chapter 41
1 And after that I saw all the secrets of
the heavens, and how the kingdom is
divided, and how the 2 actions of men are
weighed in the balance. And there I saw
the mansions of the elect and the mansions
of the holy, and mine eyes saw there all
the sinners being driven from thence which
deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and
being dragged off: and they could not
abide because of the punishment which
proceeds from the Lord of Spirits. 3 And
there mine eyes saw the secrets of the
lightning and of the thunder, and the
secrets of the winds, how they are divided
to blow over the earth, and the secrets of
the clouds and dew, and there 4 I saw
from whence they proceed in that place
and from whence they saturate the dusty
earth. And there I saw closed chambers
out of which the winds are divided, the
chamber of the hail and winds, the
chamber of the mist, and of the clouds,
and the cloud thereof hovers over the
earth from the 5 beginning of the world.
And I saw the chambers of the sun and
moon, whence they proceed and whither
they come again, and their glorious return,
and how one is superior to the other, and
their stately orbit, and how they do not
leave their orbit, and they add nothing to
their orbit and they take nothing from it,
and they keep faith with each other, in
accordance with the oath by which they 6
are bound together. And first the sun goes
forth and traverses his path according to
the commandment 7 of the Lord of
Spirits, and mighty is His name for ever
and ever. And after that I saw the hidden
and the visible path of the moon, and she
accomplishes the course of her path in
that place by day and by night-the one
holding a position opposite to the other
before the Lord of Spirits.
And they give thanks and praise and rest
not;
For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
8 For the sun changes oft for a blessing or
a curse,
And the course of the path of the moon is
light to the righteous
And darkness to the sinners in the name
of the Lord,
Who made a separation between the light
and the darkness,
And divided the spirits of men,
And strengthened the spirits of the
righteous,
In the name of His righteousness.
9 For no angel hinders and no power is
able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for
them all and He judges them all before
Him.
Chapter 42
1 Wisdom found no place where she
might dwell;
Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in
the heavens.
2 Wisdom went forth to make her
dwelling among the children of men,
And found no dwelling-place:
Wisdom returned to her place,
And took her seat among the angels.
3 And unrighteousness went forth from
her chambers:
Whom she sought not she found,
And dwelt with them,
As rain in a desert
And dew on a thirsty land.
Chapter 43
1 And I saw other lightnings and the stars
of heaven, and I saw how He called them
all by their 2 names and they hearkened
unto Him. And I saw how they are
weighed in a righteous balance according
to their proportions of light: (I saw) the
width of their spaces and the day of their
appearing, and how their revolution
produces lightning: and (I saw) their
revolution according to the 3 number of
the angels, and (how) they keep faith with
each other. And I asked the angel who
went 4 with me who showed me what
was hidden: What are these? And he said
to me: The Lord of Spirits hath showed
thee their parabolic meaning (lit. their
parable): these are the names of the holy
who dwell on the earth and believe in the
name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and
ever.
Chapter 44
Also another phenomenon I saw in regard
to the lightnings: how some of the stars
arise and become lightnings and cannot
part with their new form.
Chapter 45
1 And this is the second Parable
concerning those who deny the name of
the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord
of Spirits.
2 And into the heaven they shall not
ascend,
And on the earth they shall not come:
Such shall be the lot of the sinners
Who have denied the name of the Lord of
Spirits,
Who are thus preserved for the day of
suffering and tribulation.
3 On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on
the throne of glory
And shall try their works,
And their places of rest shall be
innumerable.
And their souls shall grow strong within
them when they see Mine Elect Ones,
And those who have called upon My
glorious name:
4 Then will I cause Mine Elect One to
dwell among them.
And I will transform the heaven and make
it an eternal blessing and light
5 And I will transform the earth and make
it a blessing:
And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell
upon it:
But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set
foot thereon.
6 For I have provided and satisfied with
peace My righteous ones
And have caused them to dwell before
Me:
But for the sinners there is judgement
impending with Me,
So that I shall destroy them from the face
of the earth.
Chapter 46
1 And there I saw One who had a head
of days,
And His head was white like wool,
And with Him was another being whose
countenance had the appearance of a
man,
And his face was full of graciousness, like
one of the holy angels.
2 And I asked the angel who went with
me and showed me all the hidden things,
concerning that 3 Son of Man, who he
was, and whence he was, (and) why he
went with the Head of Days? And he
answered and said unto me:
This is the son of Man who hath
righteousness,
With whom dwelleth righteousness,
And who revealeth all the treasures of that
which is hidden,
Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen
him,
And whose lot hath the pre-eminence
before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness
for ever.
4 And this Son of Man whom thou hast
seen
Shall raise up the kings and the mighty
from their seats,
[And the strong from their thrones]
And shall loosen the reins of the strong,
And break the teeth of the sinners.
5[And he shall put down the kings from
their thrones and kingdoms]
Because they do not extol and praise
Him,
Nor humbly acknowledge whence the
kingdom was bestowed upon them.
6 And he shall put down the countenance
of the strong,
And shall fill them with shame.
And darkness shall be their dwelling,
And worms shall be their bed,
And they shall have no hope of rising from
their beds,
Because they do not extol the name of the
Lord of Spirits.
7 And these are they who judge the stars
of heaven,
[And raise their hands against the Most
High],
And tread upon the earth and dwell upon
it.
And all their deeds manifest
unrighteousness,
And their power rests upon their riches,
And their faith is in the gods which they
have made with their hands,
And they deny the name of the Lord of
Spirits,
8 And they persecute the houses of His
congregations,
And the faithful who hang upon the name
of the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 47
1 And in those days shall have ascended
the prayer of the righteous,
And the blood of the righteous from the
earth before the Lord of Spirits.
2 In those days the holy ones who dwell
above in the heavens
Shall unite with one voice
And supplicate and pray and praise,
And give thanks and bless the name of the
Lord of Spirits
On behalf of the blood of the righteous
which has been shed,
And that the prayer of the righteous may
not be in vain before the Lord of Spirits,
That judgement may be done unto them,
And that they may not have to suffer for
ever.
3 In those days I saw the Head of Days
when He seated himself upon the throne
of His glory,
And the books of the living were opened
before Him:
And all His host which is in heaven above
and His counselors stood before Him,
4 And the hearts of the holy were filled
with joy;
Because the number of the righteous had
been offered,
And the prayer of the righteous had been
heard,
And the blood of the righteous been
required before the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 48
1 And in that place I saw the fountain of
righteousness
Which was inexhaustible:
And around it were many fountains of
wisdom:
And all the thirsty drank of them,
And were filled with wisdom,
And their dwellings were with the
righteous and holy and elect.
2 And at that hour that Son of Man was
named In the presence of the Lord of
Spirits,
And his name before the Head of Days.
3 Yea, before the sun and the signs were
created,
Before the stars of the heaven were made,
His name was named before the Lord of
Spirits.
4 He shall be a staff to the righteous
whereon to stay themselves and not fall,
And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,
And the hope of those who are troubled
of heart.
5 All who dwell on earth shall fall down
and worship before him,
And will praise and bless and celebrate
with song the Lord of Spirits.
6 And for this reason hath he been chosen
and hidden before Him,
Before the creation of the world and for
evermore.
7 And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits
hath revealed him to the holy and
righteous;
For he hath preserved the lot of the
righteous,
Because they have hated and despised
this world of unrighteousness,
And have hated all its works and ways in
the name of the Lord of Spirits:
For in his name they are saved,
And according to his good pleasure hath it
been in regard to their life.
8 In these days downcast in countenance
shall the kings of the earth have become,
And the strong who possess the land
because of the works of their hands,
For on the day of their anguish and
affliction they shall not (be able to) save
themselves.
And I will give them over into the hands of
Mine elect:
As straw in the fire so shall they burn
before the face of the holy:
As lead in the water shall they sink before
the face of the righteous,
And no trace of them shall any more be
found.
10 And on the day of their affliction there
shall be rest on the earth,
And before them they shall fall and not
rise again:
And there shall be no one to take them
with his hands and raise them:
For they have denied the Lord of Spirits
and His Anointed.
The name of the Lord of Spirits be
blessed.
Chapter 49
l For wisdom is poured out like water,
And glory faileth not before him for
evermore.
2 For he is mighty in all the secrets of
righteousness,
And unrighteousness shall disappear as a
shadow,
And have no continuance;
Because the Elect One standeth before
the Lord of Spirits,
And his glory is for ever and ever,
And his might unto all generations.
3 And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,
And the spirit which gives insight,
And the spirit of understanding and of
might,
And the spirit of those who have fallen
asleep in righteousness.
4 And he shall judge the secret things,
And none shall be able to utter a lying
word before him;
For he is the Elect One before the Lord of
Spirits according to His good pleasure.
Chapter 50
1 And in those days a change shall take
place for the holy and elect,
And the light of days shall abide upon
them,
And glory and honour shall turn to the
holy,
2 On the day of affliction on which evil
shall have been treasured up against the
sinners.
And the righteous shall be victorious in the
name of the Lord of Spirits:
And He will cause the others to witness
(this)
That they may repent
And forgo the works of their hands.
3 They shall have no honour through the
name of the Lord of Spirits,
Yet through His name shall they be saved,
And the Lord of Spirits will have
compassion on them,
For His compassion is great.
4 And He is righteous also in His
judgement,
And in the presence of His glory
unrighteousness also shall not maintain
itself:
At His judgement the unrepentant shall
perish before Him.
5 And from henceforth I will have no
mercy on them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 51
1 And in those days shall the earth also
give back that which has been entrusted
to it,
And Sheol also shall give back that which
it has received,
And hell shall give back that which it
owes.
5a For in those days the Elect One shall
arise,
2 And he shall choose the righteous and
holy from among them:
For the day has drawn nigh that they
should be saved.
3 And the Elect One shall in those days sit
on My throne,
And his mouth shall pour forth all the
secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them)
to him and hath glorified him.
4 And in those days shall the mountains
leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs
satisfied with milk,
And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven
shall be lighted up with joy.
5b And the earth shall rejoice,
c And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
d And the elect shall walk thereon.
Chapter 52
1 And after those days in that place where
I had seen all the visions of that which is
hidden -for 2 I had been carried off in a
whirlwind and they had borne me towards
the west-There mine eyes saw all the
secret things of heaven that shall be, a
mountain of iron, and a mountain of
copper, and a mountain of silver, and a
mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft
metal, and a mountain of lead. 3 And I
asked the angel who went with me,
saying, What things are these which I have
seen in 4 secret? And he said unto me: All
these things which thou hast seen shall
serve the dominion of His Anointed that
he may be potent and mighty on the earth.
5 And that angel of peace answered,
saying unto me: Wait a little, and there
shall be revealed unto thee all the secret
things which surround the Lord of Spirits.
6 And these mountains which thine eyes
have seen,
The mountain of iron, and the mountain of
copper, and the mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the
mountain of soft metal, and the mountain
of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the
Elect One
As wax: before the fire,
And like the water which streams down
from above [upon those mountains],
And they shall become powerless before
his feet.
7 And it shall come to pass in those days
that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
8 And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a
breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service,
And tin [shall be of no service and] shall
not be esteemed,
And lead shall not be desired.
9 And all these things shall be [denied
and] destroyed from the surface of the
earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before
the face of the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 53
1 There mine eyes saw a deep valley with
open mouths, and all who dwell on the
earth and sea and islands shall bring to
him gifts and presents and tokens of
homage, but that deep valley shall not
become full.
2 And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And the sinners devour all whom they
lawlessly oppress:
Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before
the face of the Lord of Spirits,
And they shall be banished from off the
face of His earth,
And they shall perish for ever and ever.
3 For I saw all the angels of punishment
abiding (there) and preparing all the
instruments of Satan. 4 And I asked the
angel of peace who went with me: For
whom are they preparing these
Instruments? 5 And he said unto me: They
prepare these for the kings and the mighty
of this earth, that they may thereby be
destroyed. 6 And after this the Righteous
and Elect One shall cause the house of his
congregation to appear: henceforth they
shall be no more hindered in the name of
the Lord of Spirits.
7 And these mountains shall not stand as
the earth before his righteousness,
But the hills shall be as a fountain of
water,
And the righteous shall have rest from the
oppression of sinners.
Chapter 54
1 And I looked and turned to another part
of the earth, and saw there a deep valley
with burning 2 fire. And they brought the
kings and the mighty, and began to cast
them into this deep valley. 3 And there
mine eyes saw how they made these their
instruments, iron chains of immeasurable
weight. 4 And I asked the angel of peace
who went with me, saying: For whom are
these chains being prepared ? And he said
unto me: These are being prepared for the
hosts of Azazel, so that they may take
them and cast them into the abyss of
complete condemnation, and they shall
cover their jaws with rough stones as the
Lord of Spirits commanded. 6 And
Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and
Phanuel shall take hold of them on that
great day, and cast them on that day into
the burning furnace, that the Lord of
Spirits may take vengeance on them for
their unrighteousness in becoming subject
to Satan and leading astray those who
dwell on the earth. 7 And in those days
shall punishment come from the Lord of
Spirits, and he will open all the chambers
of waters which are above the heavens,
and of the fountains which are beneath the
earth. 8 And all the waters shall be joined
with the waters: that which is above the
heavens is the masculine, 9 and the water
which is beneath the earth is the feminine.
And they shall destroy all who dwell 10
on the earth and those who dwell under
the ends of the heaven. And when they
have recognized their unrighteousness
which they have wrought on the earth,
then by these shall they perish.
Chapter 55
1 And after that the Head of Days
repented and said: In vain have I
destroyed all who dwell 2 on the earth.
And He sware by His great name:
Henceforth I will not do so to all who
dwell on the earth, and I will set a sign in
the heaven: and this shall be a pledge of
good faith between Me and them for ever,
so long as heaven is above the earth. And
this is in accordance with My command. 3
When I have desired to take hold of them
by the hand of the angels on the day of
tribulation and pain because of this, I will
cause My chastisement and My wrath to
abide upon them, saith 4 God, the Lord of
Spirits. Ye mighty kings who dwell on the
earth, ye shall have to behold Mine Elect
One, how he sits on the throne of glory
and judges Azazel, and all his associates,
and all his hosts in the name of the Lord of
Spirits.
Chapter 56
1 And I saw there the hosts of the angels
of punishment going, and they held
scourges and chains 2 of iron and bronze.
And I asked the angel of peace who went
with me, saying: To whom are 3 these
who hold the scourges going ? And he
said unto me: To their elect and beloved
ones, that they may be cast into the chasm
of the abyss of the valley.
4 And then that valley shall be filled with
their elect and beloved,
And the days of their lives shall be at an
end,
And the days of their leading astray shall
not thenceforward be reckoned.
5 And in those days the angels shall return
And hurl themselves to the east upon the
Parthians and Medes:
They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit
of unrest shall come upon them,
And they shall rouse them from their
thrones,
That they may break forth as lions from
their lairs,
And as hungry wolves among their flocks.
6 And they shall go up and tread under
foot the land of His elect ones
[And the land of His elect ones shall be
before them a threshing-floor and a
highway :]
7 But the city of my righteous shall be a
hindrance to their horses.
And they shall begin to fight among
themselves,
And their right hand shall be strong against
themselves,
And a man shall not know his brother,
Nor a son his father or his mother,
Till there be no number of the corpses
through their slaughter,
And their punishment be not in vain.
8 In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And they shall be swallowed up therein
And their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol shall devour the sinners in the
presence of the elect.
Chapter 57
1 And it came to pass after this that I saw
another host of wagons, and men riding
thereon, and 2 coming on the winds from
the east, and from the west to the south.
And the noise of their wagons was heard,
and when this turmoil took place the holy
ones from heaven remarked it, and the
pillars of the earth were moved from their
place, and the sound thereof was heard
from the one end of heaven 3 to the other,
in one day. And they shall all fall down
and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this
is the end of the second Parable.
Chapter 58
1 And I began to speak the third Parable
concerning the righteous and elect.
2 Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For glorious shall be your lot.
3 And the righteous shall be in the light of
the sun.
And the elect in the light of eternal life:
The days of their life shall be unending,
And the days of the holy without number.
4 And they shall seek the light and find
righteousness with the Lord of Spirits:
There shall be peace to the righteous in
the name of the Eternal Lord.
5 And after this it shall be said to the holy
in heaven
That they should seek out the secrets of
righteousness, the heritage of faith:
For it has become bright as the sun upon
earth,
And the darkness is past.
6 And there shall be a light that never
endeth,
And to a limit (lit. number ) of days they
shall not come,
For the darkness shall first have been
destroyed,
[And the light established before the Lord
of Spirits]
And the light of uprightness established for
ever before the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 59
1 In those days mine eyes saw the secrets
of the lightnings, and of the lights, and the
judgements they execute (lit. their
judgement ): and they lighten for a blessing
or a curse as the Lord of 2 Spirits willeth.
And there I saw the secrets of the
thunder, and how when it resounds above
in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard,
and he caused me to see the judgements
executed on the earth, whether they be for
well-being and blessing, or for a curse
according to the word of the Lord of
Spirits. 3 And after that all the secrets of
the lights and lightnings were shown to
me, and they lighten for blessing and for
satisfying.
Chapter 60
A Fragment of the Book of Noah
1 In the year 500, in the seventh month,
on the fourteenth day of the month in the
life of Enoch. In that Parable I saw how a
mighty quaking made the heaven of
heavens to quake, and the host of the
Most High, and the angels, a thousand
thousands and ten thousand times ten
thousand, were 2 disquieted with a great
disquiet. And the Head of Days sat on the
throne of His glory, and the angels and the
righteous stood around Him.
3 And a great trembling seized me,
And fear took hold of me,
And my loins gave way,
And dissolved were my reins,
And I fell upon my face.
4 And Michael sent another angel from
among the holy ones and he raised me up,
and when he had raised me up my spirit
returned; for I had not been able to
endure the look of this host, and the 5
commotion and the quaking of the heaven.
And Michael said unto me: Why art thou
disquieted with such a vision ? Until this
day lasted the day of His mercy; and He
hath been merciful and 6 long-suffering
towards those who dwell on the earth.
And when the day, and the power, and
the punishment, and the judgement come,
which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared
for those who worship not the righteous
law, and for those who deny the righteous
judgement, and for those who take His
name in vain-that day is prepared, for the
elect a covenant, but for sinners an
inquisition. 25 When the punishment of the
Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it
shall rest in order that the punishment of
the Lord of Spirits may not come, in vain,
and it shall slay the children with their
mothers and the children with their fathers.
Afterwards the judgement shall take place
according to His mercy and His patience.
7 And on that day were two monsters
parted, a female monster named
Leviathan, to dwell in the 8 abysses of the
ocean over the fountains of the waters.
But the male is named Behemoth, who
occupied with his breast a waste
wilderness named Duidain, on the east of
the garden where the elect and righteous
dwell, where my grandfather was taken
up, the seventh from Adam, the first 9
man whom the Lord of Spirits created.
And I besought the other angel that he
should show me the might of those
monsters, how they were parted on one
day and cast, the one into the abysses 10
of the sea, and the other unto the dry land
of the wilderness. And he said to me:
Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to
know what is hidden. 11 And the other
angel who went with me and showed me
what was hidden told me what is first and
last in the heaven in the height, and
beneath the earth in the depth, and at the
ends of the 12 heaven, and on the
foundation of the heaven. And the
chambers of the winds, and how the
winds are divided, and how they are
weighed, and (how) the portals of the
winds are reckoned, each according to
the power of the wind, and the power of
the lights of the moon, and according to
the power that is fitting: and the divisions
of the stars according to their names, and
how all the divisions 13 are divided. And
the thunders according to the places
where they fall, and all the divisions that
are made among the lightnings that it may
lighten, and their host that they may at
once obey. 14 For the thunder has places
of rest (which) are assigned (to it) while it
is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and
lightning are inseparable, and although not
one and undivided, they both go together
15 through the spirit and separate not. For
when the lightning lightens, the thunder
utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a
pause during the peal, and divides equally
between them; for the treasury of their
peals is like the sand, and each one of
them as it peals is held in with a bridle,
and turned back by the power of the
spirit, and pushed forward according to
the many quarters of the earth. 16 And
the spirit of the sea is masculine and
strong, and according to the might of his
strength he draws it back with a rein, and
in like manner it is driven forward and
disperses amid all the mountains 17 of the
earth. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his
own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a
good 18 angel. And the spirit of the snow
has forsaken his chambers on account of
his strength -There is a special spirit
therein, and that which ascends from it is
like smoke, and its name is frost. And the
spirit of the mist is not united with them in
their chambers, but it has a special
chamber; for its course is glorious both in
light and in darkness, and in winter and in
summer, and in its chamber is an angel. 20
And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling
at the ends of the heaven, and is
connected with the chambers of the rain,
and its course is in winter and summer:
and its clouds and the clouds of the 21
mist are connected, and the one gives to
the other. And when the spirit of the rain
goes forth from its chamber, the angels
come and open the chamber and lead it
out, and when it is diffused over the whole
earth it unites with the water on the earth.
And whensoever it unites with the water
on 22 the earth . . . For the waters are for
those who dwell on the earth; for they are
nourishment for the earth from the Most
High who is in heaven: therefore there is a
measure for the rain, 22, and the angels
take it in charge. And these things I saw
towards the Garden of the Righteous. 23
And the angel of peace who was with me
said to me: These two monsters, prepared
conformably to the greatness of God, shall
feed . . .
Chapter 61
1 And I saw in those days how long cords
were given to those angels, and they took
to themselves wings and flew, and they
went towards the north. 2 And I asked
the angel, saying unto him: Why have
those (angels) taken these cords and gone
off ? And he said unto me: They have
gone to measure.
3 And the angel who went with me said
unto me:
These shall bring the measures of the
righteous,
And the ropes of the righteous to the
righteous,
That they may stay themselves on the
name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and
ever.
4 The elect shall begin to dwell with the
elect,
And those are the measures which shall
be given to faith
And which shall strengthen righteousness.
5 And these measures shall reveal all the
secrets of the depths of the earth,
And those who have been destroyed by
the desert,
And those who have been devoured by
the beasts,
And those who have been devoured by
the fish of the sea,
That they may return and stay themselves
On the day of the Elect One;
For none shall be destroyed before the
Lord of Spirits,
And none can be destroyed.
6 And all who dwell above in the heaven
received a command and power and one
voice and one light like unto fire.
7 And that One (with) their first words
they blessed,
And extolled and lauded with wisdom,
And they were wise in utterance and in
the spirit of life.
8 And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect
one on the throne of glory.
And he shall judge all the works of the
holy above in the heaven,
And in the balance shall their deeds be
weighed
9 And when he shall lift up his
countenance
To judge their secret ways according to
the word of the name of the Lord of
Spirits,
And their path according to the way of the
righteous judgement of the Lord of Spirits,
Then shall they all with one voice speak
and bless,
And glorify and extol and sanctify the
name of the Lord of Spirits.
10 And He will summon all the host of the
heavens, and all the holy ones above, and
the host of God, the Cherubic, Seraphin
and Ophannin, and all the angels of
power, and all the angels of principalities,
and the Elect One, and the other powers
on the earth (and) over the water On that
day shall raise one voice, and bless and
glorify and exalt in the spirit of faith, and in
the spirit of wisdom, and in the spirit of
patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in
the spirit of judgement and of peace, and
in the spirit of goodness, and shall all say
with one voice: " Blessed is He, and may
the name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed
for ever and ever."
12 All who sleep not above in heaven
shall bless Him:
All the holy ones who are in heaven shall
bless Him,
And all the elect who dwell in the garden
of life:
And every spirit of light who is able to
bless, and glorify, and extol, and hallow
Thy blessed name,
And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify
and bless Thy name for ever and ever.
13 For great is the mercy of the Lord of
Spirits, and He is long-suffering,
And all His works and all that He has
created He has revealed to the righteous
and elect
In the name of the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 62
1 And thus the Lord commanded the
kings and the mighty and the exalted, and
those who dwell on the earth, and said:
Open your eyes and lift up your horns if
ye are able to recognize the Elect One.
2 And the Lord of Spirits seated him on
the throne of His glory,
And the spirit of righteousness was
poured out upon him,
And the word of his mouth slays all the
sinners,
And all the unrighteous are destroyed
from before his face.
3 And there shall stand up in that day all
the kings and the mighty,
And the exalted and those who hold the
earth,
And they shall see and recognize How he
sits on the throne of his glory,
And righteousness is judged before him,
And no lying word is spoken before him.
4 Then shall pain come upon them as on a
woman in travail,
[And she has pain in bringing forth]
When her child enters the mouth of the
womb,
And she has pain in bringing forth.
And one portion of them shall look on the
other,
And they shall be terrified,
And they shall be downcast of
countenance,
And pain shall seize them,
When they see that Son of Man Sitting on
the throne of his glory.
6 And the kings and the mighty and all
who possess the earth shall bless and
glorify and extol him who rules over all,
who was hidden.
7 For from the beginning the Son of Man
was hidden,
And the Most High preserved him in the
presence of His might,
And revealed him to the elect.
8 And the congregation of the elect and
holy shall be sown,
And all the elect shall stand before him on
that day.
9 And all the kings and the mighty and the
exalted and those who rule the earth
Shall fall down before him on their faces,
And worship and set their hope upon that
Son of Man,
And petition him and supplicate for mercy
at his hands.
10 Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will
so press them
That they shall hastily go forth from His
presence,
And their faces shall be filled with shame,
And the darkness grow deeper on their
faces.
11 And He will deliver them to the angels
for punishment,
To execute vengeance on them because
they have oppressed His children and His
elect
12 And they shall be a spectacle for the
righteous and for His elect:
They shall rejoice over them,
Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits
resteth upon them,
And His sword is drunk with their blood.
13 And the righteous and elect shall be
saved on that day,
And they shall never thenceforward see
the face of the sinners and unrighteous.
14 And the Lord of Spirits will abide over
them,
And with that Son of Man shall they eat
And lie down and rise up for ever and
ever.
15 And the righteous and elect shall have
risen from the earth,
And ceased to be of downcast
countenance.
And they shall have been clothed with
garments of glory,
16 And these shall be the garments of life
from the Lord of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before the
Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 63
1 In those days shall the mighty and the
kings who possess the earth implore (Him)
to grant them a little respite from His angels
of punishment to whom they were delivered,
that they might fall 2 down and worship
before the Lord of Spirits, and confess their
sins before Him. And they shall bless and
glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:
Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord
of kings,
And the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of
the rich,
And the Lord of glory and the Lord of
wisdom,
3 And splendid in every secret thing is Thy
power from generation to generation,
And Thy glory for ever and ever:
Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.
4 We have now learnt that we should glorify
And bless the Lord of kings and Him who is
king over all kings.
5 And they shall say:
Would that we had rest to glorify and give
thanks
And confess our faith before His glory !
6 And now we long for a little rest but find it
not:
We follow hard upon and obtain (it) not:
And light has vanished from before us,
And darkness is our dwelling-place for ever
and ever:
7 For we have not believed before Him
Nor glorified the name of the Lord of
Spirits, [nor glorified our Lord]
But our hope was in the sceptre of our
kingdom,
And in our glory.
8 And in the day of our suffering and
tribulation He saves us not,
And we find no respite for confession
That our Lord is true in all His works, and in
His judgements and His justice,
And His judgements have no respect of
persons.
And we pass away from before His face on
account of our works,
And all our sins are reckoned up in
righteousness.
10 Now they shall say unto themselves: Our
souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does
not prevent us from descending from the
midst thereof into the burden of Sheol.
11 And after that their faces shall be filled
with darkness
And shame before that Son of Man,
And they shall be driven from his presence,
And the sword shall abide before his face in
their midst.
12 Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: This is
the ordinance and judgement with respect to
the mighty and the kings and the exalted and
those who possess the earth before the
Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 641,2 And other forms I saw hidden in thatplace. I heard the voice of the angelsaying: These are the angels whodescended to the earth, and revealedwhat was hidden to the children of menand seduced the children of men intocommitting sin.
Chapter 651, 2 And in those days Noah saw theearth that it had sunk down and itsdestruction was nigh. And he arose from
thence and went to the ends of the earth,
and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch:
3 and Noah said three times with an
embittered voice: Hear me, hear me, hear
me. And I said unto him: Tell me what it is
that is falling out on the earth that the earth
is in such evil plight 4 and shaken, lest
perchance I shall perish with it ? And
thereupon there was a great commotion ,
on the earth, and a voice was heard from
heaven, and I fell on my face. And Enoch
my grandfather came and stood by me,
and said unto me: Why hast thou cried
unto me with a bitter cry and weeping 6
And a command has gone forth from the
presence of the Lord concerning those
who dwell on the earth that their ruin is
accomplished because they have learnt all
the secrets of the angels, and all the
violence of the Satans, and all their
powers -the most secret ones- and all the
power of those who practice sorcery, and
the power of witchcraft, and the power of
those who make molten images 7 for the
whole earth: And how silver is produced
from the dust of the earth, and how soft
metal 8 originates in the earth. For lead
and tin are not produced from the earth
like the first: it is a fountain 9 that
produces them, and an angel stands
therein, and that angel is pre-eminent. And
after that my grandfather Enoch took hold
of me by my hand and raised me up, and
said unto me: Go, for I have 10 asked the
Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion
on the earth. And He said unto me: "
Because of their unrighteousness their
judgement has been determined upon and
shall not be withheld by Me for ever.
Because of the sorceries which they have
searched out and learnt, the earth and
those 11 who dwell upon it shall be
destroyed." And these-they have no place
of repentance for ever, because they have
shown them what was hidden, and they
are the damned: but as for thee, my son,
the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art
pure, and guiltless of this reproach
concerning the secrets.
12 And He has destined thy name to be
among the holy,
And will preserve thee amongst those
who dwell on the earth,
And has destined thy righteous seed both
for kingship and for great honours,
And from thy seed shall proceed a
fountain of the righteous and holy without
number for ever.
Chapter 66
1 And after that he showed me the angels
of punishment who are prepared to come
and let loose all the powers of the waters
which are beneath in the earth in order to
bring judgement and destruction 2 on all
who [abide and] dwell on the earth. And
the Lord of Spirits gave commandment to
the angels who were going forth, that they
should not cause the waters to rise but
should hold them 3 in check; for those
angels were over the powers of the
waters. And I went away from the
presence of Enoch.
Chapter 67
1 And in those days the word of God
came unto me, and He said unto me:
Noah, thy lot has come 2 Up before Me,
a lot without blame, a lot of love and
uprightness. And now the angels are
making a wooden (building), and when
they have completed that task I will place
My hand upon it and preserve it, and
there shall come forth from it the seed of
life, and a change shall set in so that the 3
earth will not remain without inhabitant.
And I will make fast thy sed before me for
ever and ever, and I will spread abroad
those who dwell with thee: it shall not be
unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it
shall be blessed and multiply on the earth
in the name of the Lord. 4 And He will
imprison those angels, who have shown
unrighteousness, in that burning valley
which my grandfather Enoch had formerly
shown to me in the west among the
mountains of gold 5 and silver and iron
and soft metal and tin. And I saw that
valley in which there was a great 6
convulsion and a convulsion of the waters.
And when all this took place, from that
fiery molten metal and from the convulsion
thereof in that place, there was produced
a smell of sulphur, and it was connected
with those waters, and that valley of the
angels who had led astray (mankind)
burned 7 beneath that land. And through
its valleys proceed streams of fire, where
these angels are punished who had led
astray those who dwell upon the earth. 8
But those waters shall in those days serve
for the kings and the mighty and the
exalted, and those who dwell on the earth,
for the healing of the body, but for the
punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is
full of lust, that they may be punished in
their body, for they have denied the Lord
of Spirits 9 and see their punishment daily,
and yet believe not in His name. And in
proportion as the burning of their bodies
becomes severe, a corresponding change
shall take place in their spirit for ever and
ever; 10 for before the Lord of Spirits
none shall utter an idle word. For the
judgement shall come upon them, 11
because they believe in the lust of their
body and deny the Spirit of the Lord. And
those same waters will undergo a change
in those days; for when those angels are
punished in these waters, these
water-springs shall change their
temperature, and when the angels ascend,
this water of the 12 springs shall change
and become cold. And I heard Michael
answering and saying: This judgement
wherewith the angels are judged is a
testimony for the kings and the mighty
who possess the 13 earth. Because these
waters of judgement minister to the
healing of the body of the kings and the
lust of their body; therefore they will not
see and will not believe that those waters
will change and become a fire which burns
for ever.
Chapter 68
1 And after that my grandfather Enoch
gave me the teaching of all the secrets in
the book in the Parables which had been
given to him, and he put them together for
me in the words of the book 2 of the
Parables. And on that day Michael
answered Raphael and said: The power of
the spirit transports and makes me to
tremble because of the severity of the
judgement of the secrets, the judgement of
the angels: who can endure the severe
judgement which has been executed, and
before 3 which they melt away ? And
Michael answered again, and said to
Raphael: Who is he whose heart is not
softened concerning it, and whose reins
are not troubled by this word of
judgement 4 (that) has gone forth upon
them because of those who have thus led
them out ? And it came to pass when he
stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael
said thus to Raphael: I will not take their
part under the eye of the Lord; for the
Lord of Spirits has been angry with them
because they do 5 as if they were the
Lord. Therefore all that is hidden shall
come upon them for ever and ever; for
neither angel nor man shall have his
portion (in it), but alone they have
received their judgement for ever and
ever.
Chapter 69
1 And after this judgement they shall
terrify and make them to tremble because
they have shown this to those who dwell
on the earth. 2 And behold the names of
those angels [and these are their names:
the first of them is Samjaza, the second
Artaqifa, and the third Armen, the fourth
Kokabel, the fifth Turael, the sixth Rumjal,
the seventh Danjal, the eighth Neqael, the
ninth Baraqel, the tenth Azazel, the
eleventh Armaros, the twelfth Batarjal, the
thirteenth Busasejal, the fourteenth
Hananel, the fifteenth Turel, and the
sixteenth Simapesiel, the seventeenth
Jetrel, the eighteenth Tumael, the
nineteenth Turel, 3 the twentieth Rumael,
the twenty-first Azazel. And these are the
chiefs of their angels and their names, and
their chief ones over hundreds and over
fifties and over tens. 4 The name of the
first Jeqon: that is, the one who led astray
[all] the sons of God, and brought them 5
down to the earth, and led them astray
through the daughters of men. And the
second was named Asbeel: he imparted
to the holy sons of God evil counsel, and
led them astray so that they defiled 6 their
bodies with the daughters of men. And the
third was named Gadreel: he it is who
showed the children of men all the blows
of death, and he led astray Eve, and
showed [the weapons of death to the sons
of men] the shield and the coat of mail,
and the sword for battle, and all the
weapons 7 of death to the children of
men. And from his hand they have
proceeded against those who dwell 8 on
the earth from that day and for evermore.
And the fourth was named Penemue: he
taught the 9 children of men the bitter and
the sweet, and he taught them all the
secrets of their wisdom. And he instructed
mankind in writing with ink and paper,
and thereby many sinned from eternity to
10 eternity and until this day. For men
were not created for such a purpose, to
give confirmation 11 to their good faith
with pen and ink. For men were created
exactly like the angels, to the intent that
they should continue pure and righteous,
and death, which destroys everything,
could not have taken hold of them, but
through this their knowledge they are
perishing, and through this power 12 it is
consuming me. And the fifth was named
Kasdeja: this is he who showed the
children of men all the wicked smitings of
spirits and demons, and the smitings of the
embryo in the womb, that it may pass
away, and [the smitings of the soul] the
bites of the serpent, and the smitings 13
which befall through the noontide heat, the
son of the serpent named Tabaet. And
this is the task of Kasbeel, the chief of the
oath which he showed to the holy ones
when he dwelt high 4 above in glory, and
its name is Biqa. This (angel) requested
Michael to show him the hidden name,
that he might enunciate it in the oath, so
that those might quake before that name
and oath who revealed all that was in
secret to the children of men. And this is
the power of this oath, for it is powerful
and strong, and he placed this oath Akae
in the hand of Michael.
16 And these are the secrets of this oath .
. .
And they are strong through his oath:
And the heaven was suspended before
the world was created,
And for ever.
17 And through it the earth was founded
upon the water,
And from the secret recesses of the
mountains come beautiful waters,
From the creation of the world and unto
eternity.
18 And through that oath the sea was
created,
And as its foundation He set for it the
sand against the time of (its) anger,
And it dare not pass beyond it from the
creation of the world unto eternity.
9 And through that oath are the depths
made fast,
And abide and stir not from their place
from eternity to eternity.
20 And through that oath the sun and
moon complete their course,
And deviate not from their ordinance from
eternity to eternity.
21 And through that oath the stars
complete their course,
And He calls them by their names,
And they answer Him from eternity to
eternity.
22 [And in like manner the spirits of the
water, and of the winds, and of all
zephyrs, and (their) paths 23 from all the
quarters of the winds. And there are
preserved the voices of the thunder and
the light of the lightnings: and there are
preserved the chambers of the hail and the
chambers of the 24 hoarfrost, and the
chambers of the mist, and the chambers of
the rain and the dew. And all these believe
and give thanks before the Lord of Spirits,
and glorify (Him) with all their power, and
their food is in every act of thanksgiving:
they thank and glorify and extol the name
of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.]
25 And this oath is mighty over them
And through it [they are preserved and]
their paths are preserved,
And their course is not destroyed.
26 And there was great joy amongst
them,
And they blessed and glorified and
extolled
Because the name of that Son of Man had
been revealed unto them.
27 And he sat on the throne of his glory,
And the sum of judgement was given unto
the Son of Man,
And he caused the sinners to pass away
and be destroyed from off the face of the
earth,
And those who have led the world astray.
28 With chains shall they be bound,
And in their assemblage-place of
destruction shall they be imprisoned,
And all their works vanish from the face
of the earth.
29 And from henceforth there shall be
nothing corruptible;
For that Son of Man has appeared,
And has seated himself on the throne of
his glory,
And all evil shall pass away before his
face,
And the word of that Son of Man shall go
forth
And be strong before the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 70
1 And it came to pass after this that his
name during his lifetime was raised aloft to
that Son of 2 Man and to the Lord of
Spirits from amongst those who dwell on
the earth. And he was raised aloft 3 on
the chariots of the spirit and his name
vanished among them. And from that day
I was no longer numbered amongst them:
and he set me between the two winds,
between the North and the 4 West, where
the angels took the cords to measure for
me the place for the elect and righteous.
And there I saw the first fathers and the
righteous who from the beginning dwell in
that place.
Chapter 71
1 And it came to pass after this that my
spirit was translated
And it ascended into the heavens:
And I saw the holy sons of God.
They were stepping on flames of fire:
Their garments were white [and their
raiment] ,
And their faces shone like snow.
2 And I saw two streams of fire,
And the light of that fire shone like
hyacinth,
And I fell on my face before the Lord of
Spirits.
3 And the angel Michael[one of the
archangels] seized me by my right hand,
And lifted me up and led me forth into all
the secrets,
And he showed me all the secrets of
righteousness.
4 And he showed me all the secrets of the
ends of the heaven,
And all the chambers of all the stars, and
all the luminaries,
Whence they proceed before the face of
the holy ones.
5 And he translated my spirit into the
heaven of heavens,
And I saw there as it were a structure
built of crystals,
And between those crystals tongues of
living fire.
6 And my spirit saw the girdle which girt
that house of fire,
And on its four sides were streams full of
living fire,
And they girt that house.
7 And round about were Seraphin,
Cherubic, and Ophannin:
And these are they who sleep not
And guard the throne of His glory.
8 And I saw angels who could not be
counted,
A thousand thousands, and ten thousand
times ten thousand,
Encircling that house.
And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel,
and Phanuel,
And the holy angels who are above the
heavens,
Go in and out of that house.
9 And they came forth from that house,
And Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and
Phanuel,
And many holy angels without number.
10 And with them the Head of Days,
His head white and pure as wool,
And His raiment indescribable.
11 And I fell on my face,
And my whole body became relaxed,
And my spirit was transfigured;
And I cried with a loud voice, . . .
with the spirit of power,
And blessed and glorified and extolled.
12 And these blessings which went forth
out of my mouth were well pleasing
before that Head of Days. And that Head
of Days came with Michael and Gabriel,
Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and ten
thousands of angels without number.
[Lost passage wherein the Son of Man
was described as accompanying the Head
of Days, and Enoch asked one of the
angels (as in xlvi. 3) concerning the Son of
Man as to who he was.]
14 And he (i.e. the angel) came to me and
greeted me with His voice, and said unto
me
This is the Son of Man who is born unto
righteousness,
And righteousness abides over him,
And the righteousness of the Head of
Days forsakes him not.
15 And he said unto me:
He proclaims unto thee peace in the name
of the world to come;
For from hence has proceeded peace
since the creation of the world,
And so shall it be unto thee for ever and
for ever and ever.
16 And all shall walk in his ways since
righteousness never forsaketh him:
With him will be their dwelling-places, and
with him their heritage,
And they shall not be separated from him
for ever and ever and ever.
And so there shall be length of days with
that Son of Man,
And the righteous shall have peace and an
upright way
In the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever
and ever.
Chapter 72
1 The book of the courses of the
luminaries of the heaven, the relations of
each, according to their classes, their
dominion and their seasons, according to
their names and places of origin, and
according to their months, which Uriel, the
holy angel, who was with me, who is their
guide, showed me; and he showed me all
their laws exactly as they are, and how it
is with regard to all the years of the world
2 and unto eternity, till the new creation is
accomplished which dureth till eternity.
And this is the first law of the luminaries:
the luminary the Sun has its rising in the
eastern portals of the heaven, 3 and its
setting in the western portals of the
heaven. And I saw six portals in which the
sun rises, and six portals in which the sun
sets and the moon rises and sets in these
portals, and the leaders of the stars and
those whom they lead: six in the east and
six in the west, and all following each
other 4 in accurately corresponding order:
also many windows to the right and left of
these portals. And first there goes forth
the great luminary, named the Sun, and his
circumference is like the 5 circumference
of the heaven, and he is quite filled with
illuminating and heating fire. The chariot
on which he ascends, the wind drives, and
the sun goes down from the heaven and
returns through the north in order to reach
the east, and is so guided that he comes to
the appropriate (lit. that ) portal and 6
shines in the face of the heaven. In this
way he rises in the first month in the great
portal, which 7 is the fourth [those six
portals in the cast]. And in that fourth
portal from which the sun rises in the first
month are twelve window-openings, from
which proceed a flame when they are
opened in 8 their season. When the sun
rises in the heaven, he comes forth
through that fourth portal thirty, 9
mornings in succession, and sets
accurately in the fourth portal in the west
of the heaven. And during this period the
day becomes daily longer and the night
nightly shorter to the thirtieth 10 morning.
On that day the day is longer than the
night by a ninth part, and the day amounts
exactly to ten parts and the night to eight
parts. And the sun rises from that fourth
portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to
the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings,
and rises from it and sets in the fifth 12
portal. And then the day becomes longer
by two parts and amounts to eleven parts,
and the night 13 becomes shorter and
amounts to seven parts. And it returns to
the east and enters into the sixth 14 portal,
and rises and sets in the sixth portal
one-and-thirty mornings on account of its
sign. On that day the day becomes longer
than the night, and the day becomes
double the night, and the day 15 becomes
twelve parts, and the night is shortened
and becomes six parts. And the sun
mounts up to make the day shorter and
the night longer, and the sun returns to the
east and enters into the 16 sixth portal,
and rises from it and sets thirty mornings.
And when thirty mornings are
accomplished, 17 the day decreases by
exactly one part, and becomes eleven
parts, and the night seven. And the sun
goes forth from that sixth portal in the
west, and goes to the east and rises in the
fifth portal for 18 thirty mornings, and sets
in the west again in the fifth western
portal. On that day the day decreases by
two parts, and amounts to ten parts and
the night to eight parts. And the sun goes
forth from that fifth portal and sets in the
fifth portal of the west, and rises in the
fourth portal for one- 20 and-thirty
mornings on account of its sign, and sets
in the west. On that day the day is
equalized with the night, [and becomes of
equal length] , and the night amounts to
nine parts and the day to 21 nine parts.
And the sun rises from that portal and sets
in the west, and returns to the east and
rises 22 thirty mornings in the third portal
and sets in the west in the third portal.
And on that day the night becomes longer
than the day, and night becomes longer
than night, and day shorter than day till the
thirtieth morning, and the night amounts
exactly to ten parts and the day to eight
23 parts. And the sun rises from that third
portal and sets in the third portal in the
west and returns to the east, and for thirty
mornings rises 24 in the second portal in
the east, and in like manner sets in the
second portal in the west of the heaven.
And on that day the night amounts to
eleven 25 parts and the day to seven
parts. And the sun rises on that day from
that second portal and sets in the west in
the second portal, and returns to the east
into the first portal for one-and-thirty 26
mornings, and sets in the first portal in the
west of the heaven. And on that day the
night becomes longer and amounts to the
double of the day: and the night amounts
exactly to twelve parts and 27 the day to
six. And the sun has (therewith) traversed
the divisions of his orbit and turns again on
those divisions of his orbit, and enters that
portal thirty mornings and sets also in the
west 28 opposite to it. And on that night
has the night decreased in length by a
ninth part, and the night 29 has become
eleven parts and the day seven parts. And
the sun has returned and entered into the
second portal in the east, and returns on
those his divisions of his orbit for thirty
mornings, rising 30 and setting. And on
that day the night decreases in length, and
the night amounts to ten parts 31 and the
day to eight. And on that day the sun rises
from that portal, and sets in the west, and
returns to the east, and rises in the third
portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and
sets in the west of the heaven. 32 On that
day the night decreases and amounts to
nine parts, and the day to nine parts, and
the night 33 is equal to the day and the
year is exactly as to its days three hundred
and sixty-four. And the length of the day
and of the night, and the shortness of the
day and of the night arise-through the
course 34 of the sun these distinctions are
made (lit. they are separated ). So it
comes that its course becomes 35 daily
longer, and its course nightly shorter. And
this is the law and the course of the sun,
and his return as often as he returns sixty
times and rises, i.e. the great luminary
which is named the sun, for ever and ever.
And that which (thus) rises is the great
luminary, and is so named according to 37
its appearance, according as the Lord
commanded. As he rises, so he sets and
decreases not, and rests not, but runs day
and night, and his light is sevenfold
brighter than that of the moon; but as
regards size they are both equal.
Chapter 73
1 And after this law I saw another law
dealing with the smaller luminary, which is
named the Moon. And her circumference
is like the circumference of the heaven,
and her chariot in which she rides is driven
by the wind, and light is given to her in
(definite) measure. And her rising and
setting change every month: and her days
are like the days of the sun, and when her
light is uniform (i.e. full) it amounts to the
seventh part of the light of the sun. And
thus she rises. And her first phase in the
east comes forth on the thirtieth morning:
and on that day she becomes visible, and
constitutes for you the first phase of the
moon on the thirtieth day together with the
sun in the portal where the sun rises. And
the one half of her goes forth by a seventh
part, and her whole circumference is
empty, without light, with the exception of
one-seventh part of it, (and) the 6
fourteenth part of her light. And when she
receives one-seventh part of the half of
her light, her light 7 amounts to
one-seventh part and the half thereof. And
she sets with the sun, and when the sun
rises the moon rises with him and receives
the half of one part of light, and in that
night in the beginning of her morningin the
commencement of the lunar day
the moon sets with the sun, and 8 is
invisible that night with the fourteen parts
and the half of one of them. And she rises
on that day with exactly a seventh part,
and comes forth and recedes from the
rising of the sun, and in her remaining days
she becomes bright in the (remaining)
thirteen parts.
Chapter 74
1 And I saw another course, a law for
her, (and) how according to that law she
performs her monthly 2 revolution. And all
these Uriel, the holy angel who is the
leader of them all, showed to me, and
their positions, and I wrote down their
positions as he showed them to me, and I
wrote down their months 3 as they were,
and the appearance of their lights till
fifteen days were accomplished. In single
seventh parts she accomplishes all her
light in the east, and in single seventh parts
accomplishes all her 4 darkness in the
west. And in certain months she alters her
settings, and in certain months she pursues
5 her own peculiar course. In two months
the moon sets with the sun: in those two
middle portals the 6 third and the fourth.
She goes forth for seven days, and turns
about and returns again through the portal
where the sun rises, and accomplishes all
her light: and she recedes from the sun,
and in eight 7 days enters the sixth portal
from which the sun goes forth. And when
the sun goes forth from the fourth portal
she goes forth seven days, until she goes
forth from the fifth and turns back again in
seven days into the fourth portal and
accomplishes all her light: and she recedes
and enters into the 8 first portal in eight
days. And she returns again in seven days
into the fourth portal from which the 9, 10
sun goes forth. Thus I saw their position
-how the moons rose and the sun set in
those days. And if five years are added
together the sun has an overplus of thirty
days, and all the days which accrue 11 to
it for one of those five years, when they
are full, amount to 364 days. And the
overplus of the sun and of the stars
amounts to six days: in 5 years 6 days
every year come to 30 days: and the 12
moon falls behind the sun and stars to the
number of 30 days. And the sun and the
stars bring in all the years exactly, so that
they do not advance or delay their
position by a single day unto eternity; but
complete the years with perfect justice in
364 days. In 3 years there are 1,092
days, and in 5 years 1,820 days, so that in
8 years there are 2,912 days. For the
moon alone the days amount in 3 years to
1,062 days, and in 5 years she falls 50
days behind:i.e. to the sum (of 1,770)
there is 5 to be added (1,000 and) 62
days.
And in 5 years there are 1,770 days, so
that for the moon the days 6 in 8 years
amount to 21,832 days.For in 8 years she
falls behind to the amount of 80 days
, all the 17 days she falls behind in 8 years
are 80. And the year is accurately
completed in conformity with their
world-stations and the stations of the sun,
which rise from the portals through which
it (the sun) rises and sets 30 days.
Chapter 75
1 And the leaders of the heads of the
thousands, who are placed over the whole
creation and over all the stars, have also
to do with the four intercalary days, being
inseparable from their office, according to
the reckoning of the year, and these
render service on the four days which are
not 2 reckoned in the reckoning of the
year. And owing to them men go wrong
therein, for those luminaries truly render
service on the world-stations, one in the
first portal, one in the third portal of the
heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one
in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the
year is 3 accomplished through its
separate three hundred and sixty-four
stations. For the signs and the times and
the years and the days the angel Uriel
showed to me, whom the Lord of glory
hath set for ever over all the luminaries of
the heaven, in the heaven and in the
world, that they should rule on the face of
the heaven and be seen on the earth, and
be leaders for the day and the night, i.e.
the sun, moon, and stars, and all the
ministering creatures which make their
revolution in all the chariots 4 of the
heaven. In like manner twelve doors Uriel
showed me, open in the circumference of
the suns chariot in the heaven, through
which the rays of the sun break forth: and
from them is warmth 5 diffused over the
earth, when they are opened at their
appointed seasons.And for the winds and
6 the spirit of the dew when they are
opened, standing open in the heavens at
the ends.
As for the twelve portals in the heaven, at
the ends of the earth, out of which go
forth the sun, moon, and stars, 7 and all
the works of heaven in the east and in the
west, There are many windows open to
the left and right of them, and one window
at its (appointed) season produces
warmth, corresponding (as these do) to
those doors from which the stars come
forth according as He has commanded
them, 8 and wherein they set
corresponding to their number. And I saw
chariots in the heaven, running 9 in the
world, above those portals in which
revolve the stars that never set. And one
is larger than all the rest, and it is that that
makes its course through the entire world.
Chapter 76
1 And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve
portals open to all the quarters (of the
heaven), from 2 which the winds go forth
and blow over the earth. Three of them are
open on the face (i.e. the east) of the
heavens, and three in the west, and three on
the right (i.e. the south) of the heaven, and 3
three on the left (i.e. the north). And the
three first are those of the east, and three
are of the 4 north, and threeafter those on
the left
of the south, and three of the west. Through
four of these come winds of blessing and
prosperity, and from those eight come
hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring
destruction on all the earth and on the water
upon it, and on all who dwell thereon, and
on everything which is in the water and on
the land. 5 And the first wind from those
portals, called the east wind, comes forth
through the first portal which is in the east,
inclining towards the south: from it come
forth desolation, drought, heat, 6 and
destruction. And through the second portal
in the middle comes what is fitting, and from
it there come rain and fruitfulness and
prosperity and dew; and through the third
portal which lies toward the north come
cold and drought. 7 And after these come
forth the south winds through three portals:
through the first portal of 8 them inclining to
the east comes forth a hot wind. And
through the middle portal next to it there 9
come forth fragrant smells, and dew and
rain, and prosperity and health. And through
the third portal lying to the west come forth
dew and rain, locusts and desolation. 10
And after these the north winds: from the
seventh portal in the east come dew and
rain, locusts and desolation. And from the
middle portal come in a direct direction
health and rain and dew and prosperity; and
through the third portal in the west come
cloud and hoar-frost, and snow and rain,
and dew and locusts. 12 And after
these four
are the west winds: through the first portal
adjoining the north come forth dew and
hoar-frost, and cold and snow and frost.
And from the middle portal come forth dew
and rain, and prosperity and blessing; and
through the last portal which adjoins the
south come forth drought and desolation,
and burning and destruction. And the twelve
portals of the four quarters of the heaven
are therewith completed, and all their laws
and all their plagues and all their
benefactions have I shown to thee, my son
Methuselah.
Chapter 77
1 And the first quarter is called the east,
because it is the first: and the second, the
south, because the Most High will
descend there, yea, there in quite a special
sense will He who is blessed for ever 2
descend. And the west quarter is named
the diminished, because there all the
luminaries of the 3 heaven wane and go
down. And the fourth quarter, named the
north, is divided into three parts: the first
of them is for the dwelling of men: and the
second contains seas of water, and the
abysses and forests and rivers, and
darkness and clouds; and the third part
contains the garden of righteousness. 4 I
saw seven high mountains, higher than all
the mountains which are on the earth: and
thence 5 comes forth hoar-frost, and
days, seasons, and years pass away. I
saw seven rivers on the earth larger than
all the rivers: one of them coming from the
west pours its waters into the Great Sea.
6 And these two come from the north to
the sea and pour their waters into the
Erythraean Sea in the 7 east. And the
remaining, four come forth on the side of
the north to their own sea, two of them to
the Erythraean Sea, and two into the
Great Sea and discharge themselves
thereand some say: 8 into the desert
. Seven great islands I saw in the sea and
in the mainland: two in the mainland and
five in the Great Sea.
Chapter 78
1, 2 And the names of the sun are the
following: the first Orjares, and the second
Tomas. And the moon has four names: the
first name is Asonja, the second Ebla, the
third Benase, and the fourth 3 Erae. These
are the two great luminaries: their
circumference is like the circumference of
the 4 heaven, and the size of the
circumference of both is alike. In the
circumference of the sun there are seven
portions of light which are added to it
more than to the moon, and in definite
measures it is s transferred till the seventh
portion of the sun is exhausted. And they
set and enter the portals of the west, and
make their revolution by the north, and
come forth through the eastern portals 6
on the face of the heaven. And when the
moon rises one-fourteenth part appears in
the heaven: 7the light becomes full in her :
on the fourteenth day she accomplishes
her light. And fifteen parts of light are
transferred to her till the fifteenth day
(when) her light is accomplished,
according to the sign of the year, and she
becomes fifteen parts, and the moon
grows by (the addition of) fourteenth 8
parts. And in her waning (the moon)
decreases on the first day to fourteen
parts of her light, on the second to thirteen
parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the
fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the
sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on
the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on
the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four,
on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to
two, on the 9 fourteenth to the half of a
seventh, and all her remaining light
disappears wholly on the fifteenth. And 10
in certain months the month has
twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight.
And Uriel showed me another law: when
light is transferred to the moon, and on
which side it is transferred to her by the
sun. During all the period during which the
moon is growing in her light, she is
transferring it to herself when opposite to
the sun during fourteen daysher light is
accomplished in the heaven, 12 and when
she is illumined throughout, her light is
accomplished full in the heaven. And on
the first 13 day she is called the new
moon, for on that day the light rises upon
her. She becomes full moon exactly on the
day when the sun sets in the west, and
from the east she rises at night, and the
moon shines the whole night through till
the sun rises over against her and the
moon is seen over against the sun. On the
side whence the light of the moon comes
forth, there again she wanes till all the light
vanishes and all the days of the month are
at an end, and her circumference is empty,
void of 5 light. And three months she
makes of thirty days, and at her time she
makes three months of twenty- nine days
each, in which she accomplishes her
waning in the first period of time, and in
the first 6 portal for one hundred and
seventy-seven days. And in the time of
her going out she appears for three
months (of) thirty days each, and for three
months she appears (of) twenty-nine
each. At night she appears like a man for
twenty days each time, and by day she
appears like the heaven, and there is
nothing else in her save her light.
Chapter 79
1 And now, my son, I have shown thee
everything, and the law of all the stars of
the heaven is 2 completed. And he
showed me all the laws of these for every
day, and for every season of bearing rule,
and for every year, and for its going forth,
and for the order prescribed to it every
month 3 and every week: And the waning
of the moon which takes place in the sixth
portal: for in this 4 sixth portal her light is
accomplished, and after that there is the
beginning of the waning: (And the waning)
which takes place in the first portal in its
season, till one hundred and
seventy-seven 5 days are accomplished:
reckoned according to weeks, twenty-five
(weeks) and two days. She falls behind
the sun and the order of the stars exactly
five days in the course of one period, and
when 6 this place which thou seest has
been traversed. Such is the picture and
sketch of every luminary which Uriel the
archangel, who is their leader, showed
unto me.
Chapter 80
1 And in those days the angel Uriel
answered and said to me: Behold, I have
shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have
revealed everything to thee that thou
shouldst see this sun and this moon, and
the leaders of the stars of the heaven and
all those who turn them, their tasks and
times and departures.
2 And in the days of the sinners the years
shall be shortened,
And their seed shall be tardy on their
lands and fields,
And all things on the earth shall alter,
And shall not appear in their time:
And the rain shall be kept back
And the heaven shall withhold (it).
3 And in those times the fruits of the earth
shall be backward,
And shall not grow in their time,
And the fruits of the trees shall be
withheld in their time.
4 And the moon shall alter her order,
And not appear at her time.
5And in those days the sun shall be seen
and he shall journey in the evening on the
extremity of the great chariot in the west
And shall shine more brightly than accords
with the order of light.
6 And many chiefs of the stars shall
transgress the order (prescribed).
And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,
And not appear at the seasons prescribed
to them.
7 And the whole order of the stars shall
be concealed from the sinners,
And the thoughts of those on the earth
shall err concerning them,
And they shall be altered from all their
ways,
Yea, they shall err and take them to be
gods.
8 And evil shall be multiplied upon them,
And punishment shall come upon them So
as to destroy all.
Chapter 81
1 And he said unto me:
Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets,
And read what is written thereon,
And mark every individual fact.
2 And I observed the heavenly tablets,
and read everything which was written
(thereon) and understood everything, and
read the book of all the deeds of
mankind, and of all the children of flesh 3
that shall be upon the earth to the
remotest generations. And forthwith I
blessed the great Lord the King of glory
for ever, in that He has made all the
works of the world,
And I extolled the Lord because of His
patience,
And blessed Him because of the children
of men.
4 And after that I said:
Blessed is the man who dies in
righteousness and goodness,
Concerning whom there is no book of
unrighteousness written,
And against whom no day of judgement
shall be found.
5 And those seven holy ones brought me
and placed me on the earth before the
door of my house, and said to me:
Declare everything to thy son Methuselah,
and show to all thy children that no 6 flesh
is righteous in the sight of the Lord, for He
is their Creator. One year we will leave
thee with thy son, till thou givest thy (last)
commands, that thou mayest teach thy
children and record (it) for them, and
testify to all thy children; and in the second
year they shall take thee from their midst.
7 Let thy heart be strong,
For the good shall announce righteousness
to the good;
The righteous with the righteous shall
rejoice,
And shall offer congratulation to one
another.
8 But the sinners shall die with the sinners,
And the apostate go down with the
apostate.
9 And those who practice righteousness
shall die on account of the deeds of men,
And be taken away on account of the
doings of the godless.
10 And in those days they ceased to
speak to me, and I came to my people,
blessing the Lord of the world.
Chapter 82
1 And now, my son Methuselah, all these
things I am recounting to thee and writing
down for thee! and I have revealed to
thee everything, and given thee books
concerning all these: so preserve, my son
Methuselah, the books from thy fathers
hand, and (see) that thou deliver them to
the generations of the world.
2 I have given Wisdom to thee and to thy
children,
And thy children that shall be to thee,
That they may give it to their children for
generations,
This wisdom (namely) that passeth their
thought.
3 And those who understand it shall not
sleep,
But shall listen with the ear that they may
learn this wisdom,
And it shall please those that eat thereof
better than good food.
4 Blessed are all the righteous, blessed
are all those who walk In the way of
righteousness and sin not as the sinners, in
the reckoning of all their days in which the
sun traverses the heaven, entering into and
departing from the portals for thirty days
with the heads of thousands of the order
of the stars, together with the four which
are intercalated which divide the four
portions of the year, which 5 lead them
and enter with them four days. Owing to
them men shall be at fault and not reckon
them in the whole reckoning of the year:
yea, men shall be at fault, and not
recognize them 6 accurately. For they
belong to the reckoning of the year and
are truly recorded (thereon) for ever, one
in the first portal and one in the third, and
one in the fourth and one in the sixth, and
the year is completed in three hundred
and sixty-four days. 7 And the account
thereof is accurate and the recorded
reckoning thereof exact; for the
luminaries, and months and festivals, and
years and days, has Uriel shown and
revealed to me, to whom the 8 Lord of
the whole creation of the world hath
subjected the host of heaven. And he has
power over night and day in the heaven to
cause the light to give light to men -sun,
moon, and stars, 9 and all the powers of
the heaven which revolve in their circular
chariots. And these are the orders of the
stars, which set in their places, and in their
seasons and festivals and months. 10 And
these are the names of those who lead
them, who watch that they enter at their
times, in their orders, in their seasons, in
their months, in their periods of dominion,
and in their positions. Their four leaders
who divide the four parts of the year enter
first; and after them the twelve leaders of
the orders who divide the months; and for
the three hundred and sixty (days) there
are heads over thousands who divide the
days; and for the four intercalary days
there are the leaders which sunder 12 the
four parts of the year. And these heads
over thousands are intercalated between
13 leader and leader, each behind a
station, but their leaders make the
division. And these are the names of the
leaders who divide the four parts of the
year which are ordained: Milkiel,
Helemmelek, and Melejal, 14 and Narel.
And the names of those who lead them:
Adnarel, and Ijasusael, and Elomeel-
these three follow the leaders of the
orders, and there is one that follows the
three leaders of the orders which follow
those leaders of stations that divide the
four parts of the year. In the beginning of
the year Melkejal rises first and rules, who
is named Tamaini and sun, and 16 all the
days of his dominion whilst he bears rule
are ninety-one days. And these are the
signs of the days which are to be seen on
earth in the days of his dominion: sweat,
and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear
fruit, and leaves are produced on all the
trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the
rose-flowers, and all the flowers which
come forth in the field, but the trees of the
winter season become withered. And
these are the names of the leaders which
are under them: Berkael, Zelebsel, and
another who is added a head of a
thousand, called Hilujaseph: and the days
of the dominion of this (leader) are at an
end. 18 The next leader after him is
Helemmelek, whom one names the shining
sun, and all the days 19 of his light are
ninety-one days. And these are the signs
of (his) days on the earth: glowing heat
and dryness, and the trees ripen their fruits
and produce all their fruits ripe and ready,
and the sheep pair and become pregnant,
and all the fruits of the earth are gathered
in, and everything that is 20 in the fields,
and the winepress: these things take place
in the days of his dominion. These are the
names, and the orders, and the leaders of
those heads of thousands: Gidaljal, Keel,
and Heel, and the name of the head of a
thousand which is added to them, Asfael:
and the days of his dominion are at an end.
Chapter 83
1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will
show thee all my visions which I have
seen, recounting 2 them before thee. Two
visions I saw before I took a wife, and the
one was quite unlike the other: the first
when I was learning to write: the second
before I took thy mother, (when) I saw a
terrible 3 vision. And regarding them I
prayed to the Lord. I had laid me down in
the house of my grandfather Mahalalel,
(when) I saw in a vision how the heaven
collapsed and was borne off and fell to 4
the earth. And when it fell to the earth I
saw how the earth was swallowed up in a
great abyss, and mountains were
suspended on mountains, and hills sank
down on hills, and high trees were rent 5
from their stems, and hurled down and
sunk in the abyss. And thereupon a word
fell into my mouth, 6 and I lifted up (my
voice) to cry aloud, and said: The earth is
destroyed. And my grandfather Mahalalel
waked me as I lay near him, and said unto
me: Why dost thou cry so, my son, and
why 7 dost thou make such lamentation?
And I recounted to him the whole vision
which I had seen, and he said unto me: A
terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and
of grave moment is thy dream- vision as
to the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it
must sink into the abyss and be destroyed
with 8 a great destruction. And now, my
son, arise and make petition to the Lord
of glory, since thou art a believer, that a
remnant may remain on the earth, and that
He may not destroy the whole 9 earth.
My son, from heaven all this will come
upon the earth, and upon the earth there
will be great 10 destruction. After that I
arose and prayed and implored and
besought, and wrote down my prayer for
the generations of the world, and I will
show everything to thee, my son
Methuselah. And when I had gone forth
below and seen the heaven, and the sun
rising in the east, and the moon setting in
the west, and a few stars, and the whole
earth, and everything as He had known it
in the beginning, then I blessed the Lord
of judgement and extolled Him because
He had made the sun to go forth from the
windows of the east, and he ascended
and rose on the face of the heaven, and
set out and kept traversing the path shown
unto him.
Chapter 84
1 And I lifted up my hands in
righteousness and blessed the Holy and
Great One, and spake with the breath of
my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh,
which God has made for the children of
the flesh of men, that they should speak
therewith, and He gave them breath and a
tongue and a mouth that they should
speak therewith:
2 Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,
Great and mighty in Thy greatness,
Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,
King of kings and God of the whole
world.
And Thy power and kingship and
greatness abide for ever and ever,
And throughout all generations Thy
dominion;
And all the heavens are Thy throne for
ever,
And the whole earth Thy footstool for
ever and ever.
3 For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all
things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom departs not from the place of
Thy throne,
Nor turns away from Thy presence.
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest
everything,
And there is nothing hidden from Theefor
Thou seest everything
.
4 And now the angels of Thy heavens are
guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy
wrath until the great day of judgement.
5 And now, O God and Lord and Great
King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my
prayer,
To leave me a posterity on earth,
And not destroy all the flesh of man,
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal
destruction.
6 And now, my Lord, destroy from the
earth the flesh which has aroused Thy
wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and
uprightness establish as a plant of the
eternal seed,
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of
Thy servant, O Lord.
Chapter 85
1,2 And after this I saw another dream,
and I will show the whole dream to thee,
my son. And Enoch lifted up (his voice)
and spake to his son Methuselah: To thee,
my son, will I speak: hear my
words-incline thine ear to the
dream-vision of thy father. Before I took
thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my
bed, and behold a bull came forth from
the earth, and that bull was white; and
after it came forth a heifer, and along with
this (latter) came forth two bulls, one of
them black and 4 the other red. And that
black bull gored the red one and pursued
him over the earth, and thereupon 5 I
could no longer see that red bull. But that
black bull grew and that heifer went with
him, and 6 I saw that many oxen
proceeded from him which resembled and
followed him. And that cow, that first one,
went from the presence of that first bull in
order to seek that red one, but found him
7 not, and lamented with a great
lamentation over him and sought him. And
I looked till that first 8 bull came to her
and quieted her, and from that time
onward she cried no more. And after that
she bore another white bull, and after him
she bore many bulls and black cows. 9
And I saw in my sleep that white bull
likewise grow and become a great white
bull, and from Him proceeded many white
bulls, and they resembled him. And they
began to beget many white bulls, which
resembled them, one following the other,
(even) many.
Chapter 86
1 And again I saw with mine eyes as I
slept, and I saw the heaven above, and
behold a star fell 2 from heaven, and it
arose and eat and pastured amongst those
oxen. And after that I saw the large and
the black oxen, and behold they all
changed their stalls and pastures and their
cattle, and began 3 to live with each other.
And again I saw in the vision, and looked
towards the heaven, and behold I saw
many stars descend and cast themselves
down from heaven to that first star, and
they became 4 bulls amongst those cattle
and pastured with themamongst them
. And I looked at them and saw, and
behold they all let out their privy
members, like horses, and began to cover
the cows of the oxen, 5 and they all
became pregnant and bare elephants,
camels, and asses. And all the oxen
feared them and were affrighted at them,
and began to bite with their teeth and to
devour, and to gore with their 6 horns.
And they began, moreover, to devour
those oxen; and behold all the children of
the earth began to tremble and quake
before them and to flee from them.
Chapter 87
1 And again I saw how they began to
gore each other and to devour each other,
and the earth 2 began to cry aloud. And I
raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I
saw in the vision, and behold there came
forth from heaven beings who were like
white men: and four went forth from that
place 3 and three with them. And those
three that had last come forth grasped me
by my hand and took me up, away from
the generations of the earth, and raised me
up to a lofty place, and showed me 4 a
tower raised high above the earth, and all
the hills were lower. And one said unto
me: Remain here till thou seest everything
that befalls those elephants, camels, and
asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all
of them.
Chapter 88
1 And I saw one of those four who had
come forth first, and he seized that first
star which had fallen from the heaven, and
bound it hand and foot and cast it into an
abyss: now that abyss was 2 narrow and
deep, and horrible and dark. And one of
them drew a sword, and gave it to those
elephants and camels and asses: then they
began to smite each other, and the whole
earth quaked 3 because of them. And as I
was beholding in the vision, lo, one of
those four who had come forth stoned
(them) from heaven, and gathered and
took all the great stars whose privy
members were like those of horses, and
bound them all hand and foot, and cast
them in an abyss of the earth.
Chapter 89
1 And one of those four went to that
white bull and instructed him in a secret,
without his being terrified: he was born a
bull and became a man, and built for
himself a great vessel and dwelt thereon; 2
and three bulls dwelt with him in that
vessel and they were covered in. And
again I raised mine eyes towards heaven
and saw a lofty roof, with seven water
torrents thereon, and those torrents 3
flowed with much water into an enclosure.
And I saw again, and behold fountains
were opened on the surface of that great
enclosure, and that water began to swell
and rise upon the surface, 4 and I saw
that enclosure till all its surface was
covered with water. And the water, the
darkness, and mist increased upon it; and
as I looked at the height of that water, that
water had risen above the height of that
enclosure, and was streaming over that
enclosure, and it stood upon the earth. 5
And all the cattle of that enclosure were
gathered together until I saw how they
sank and were 6 swallowed up and
perished in that water. But that vessel
floated on the water, while all the oxen
and elephants and camels and asses sank
to the bottom with all the animals, so that I
could no longer see them, and they were
not able to escape, (but) perished and
sank into the depths. And again I saw in
the vision till those water torrents were
removed from that high roof, and the
chasms 8 of the earth were leveled up and
other abysses were opened. Then the
water began to run down into these, till
the earth became visible; but that vessel
settled on the earth, and the darkness 9
retired and light appeared. But that white
bull which had become a man came out of
that vessel, and the three bulls with him,
and one of those three was white like that
bull, and one of them was red as blood,
and one black: and that white bull
departed from them. 10 And they began
to bring forth beasts of the field and birds,
so that there arose different genera: lions,
tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars,
foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures,
kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them
was born a white bull. And they began to
bite one another; but that white bull which
was born amongst them begat a wild ass
and a white bull with it, and the 12 wild
asses multiplied. But that bull which was
born from him begat a black wild boar
and a white 13 sheep; and the former
begat many boars, but that sheep begat
twelve sheep. And when those twelve
sheep had grown, they gave up one of
them to the asses, and those asses again
gave up that sheep to the wolves, and that
sheep grew up among the wolves. And
the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live
with it and to pasture with it among the
wolves: and they multiplied and became
many flocks of sheep. And the wolves
began to fear them, and they oppressed
them until they destroyed their little ones,
and they cast their young into a river of
much water: but those sheep began to 16
cry aloud on account of their little ones,
and to complain unto their Lord. And a
sheep which had been saved from the
wolves fled and escaped to the wild
asses; and I saw the sheep how they
lamented and cried, and besought their
Lord with all their might, till that Lord of
the sheep descended at the voice of the
sheep from a lofty abode, and came to
them and pastured them. And He called
that sheep which had escaped the wolves,
and spake with it concerning the wolves
that it should 18 admonish them not to
touch the sheep. And the sheep went to
the wolves according to the word of the
Lord, and another sheep met it and went
with it, and the two went and entered
together into the assembly of those
wolves, and spake with them and
admonished them not to touch the 19
sheep from henceforth. And thereupon I
saw the wolves, and how they oppressed
the sheep 20 exceedingly with all their
power; and the sheep cried aloud. And
the Lord came to the sheep and they
began to smite those wolves: and the
wolves began to make lamentation; but
the sheep became 21 quiet and forthwith
ceased to cry out. And I saw the sheep till
they departed from amongst the wolves;
but the eyes of the wolves were blinded,
and those wolves departed in pursuit of
the sheep 22 with all their power. And the
Lord of the sheep went with them, as their
leader, and all His sheep 23 followed
Him: and his face was dazzling and
glorious and terrible to behold. But the
wolves 24 began to pursue those sheep till
they reached a sea of water. And that sea
was divided, and the water stood on this
side and on that before their face, and
their Lord led them and placed Himself
between 25 them and the wolves. And as
those wolves did not yet see the sheep,
they proceeded into the midst of that sea,
and the wolves followed the sheep,
and those wolves
ran after them into that sea. 26 And when
they saw the Lord of the sheep, they
turned to flee before His face, but that sea
gathered itself together, and became as it
had been created, and the water swelled
and rose till it covered 27 those wolves.
And I saw till all the wolves who pursued
those sheep perished and were drowned.
28 But the sheep escaped from that water
and went forth into a wilderness, where
there was no water and no grass; and they
began to open their eyes and to see; and I
saw the Lord of the sheep 29 pasturing
them and giving them water and grass,
and that sheep going and leading them.
And that 30 sheep ascended to the
summit of that lofty rock, and the Lord of
the sheep sent it to them. And after that I
saw the Lord of the sheep who stood
before them, and His appearance was
great and 31 terrible and majestic, and all
those sheep saw Him and were afraid
before His face. And they all feared and
trembled because of Him, and they cried
to that sheep with themwhich was
amongst 32 them
: We are not able to stand before our
Lord or to behold Him. And that sheep
which led them again ascended to the
summit of that rock, but the sheep began
to be blinded and to wander 33 from the
way which he had showed them, but that
sheep wot not thereof. And the Lord of
the sheep was wrathful exceedingly
against them, and that sheep discovered it,
and went down from the summit of the
rock, and came to the sheep, and found
the greatest part of them blinded and
fallen 34 away. And when they saw it they
feared and trembled at its presence, and
desired to return to their 35 folds. And
that sheep took other sheep with it, and
came to those sheep which had fallen
away, and began to slay them; and the
sheep feared its presence, and thus that
sheep brought back those 36 sheep that
had fallen away, and they returned to their
folds. And I saw in this vision till that
sheep became a man and built a house for
the Lord of the sheep, and placed all the
sheep in that house. 37 And I saw till this
sheep which had met that sheep which led
them fell asleep: and I saw till all the great
sheep perished and little ones arose in
their place, and they came to a pasture,
and 38 approached a stream of water.
Then that sheep, their leader which had
become a man, withdrew 39 from them
and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it
and cried over it with a great crying. And
I saw till they left off crying for that sheep
and crossed that stream of water, and
there arose the two sheep as leaders in
the place of those which had led them and
fallen asleep (lit. had fallen asleep and led
40 them ). And I saw till the sheep came
to a goodly place, and a pleasant and
glorious land, and I saw till those sheep
were satisfied; and that house stood
amongst them in the pleasant land. 41
And sometimes their eyes were opened,
and sometimes blinded, till another sheep
arose and led them and brought them all
back, and their eyes were opened. 42
And the dogs and the foxes and the wild
boars began to devour those sheep till the
Lord of the sheep raised up another sheep
a ram from their 43 midst, which led them.
And that ram began to butt on either side
those dogs, foxes, and wild 44 boars till
he had destroyed them all. And that sheep
whose eyes were opened saw that ram,
which was amongst the sheep, till it
forsook its glory and began to butt those
sheep, and trampled upon them, and
behaved itself 45 unseemly. And the Lord
of the sheep sent the lamb to another lamb
and raised it to being a ram and leader of
the sheep instead of that 46 ram which
had forsaken its glory. And it went to it
and spake to it alone, and raised it to
being a ram, and made it the prince and
leader of the sheep; but during all these
things those dogs 47 oppressed the
sheep. And the first ram pursued that
second ram, and that second ram arose
and fled before it; and I saw till those
dogs pulled 48 down the first ram. And
that second ram arose 49 and led the little
sheep. And those sheep grew and
multiplied; but all the dogs, and foxes, and
wild boars feared and fled before it, and
that ram butted and killed the wild beasts,
and those wild beasts had no longer any
power among the 48b sheep and robbed
them no more of ought. And that ram
begat many sheep and fell asleep; and a
little sheep became ram in its stead, and
became prince and leader of those sheep.
50 And that house became great and
broad, and it was built for those sheep:
(and) a tower lofty and great was built on
the house for the Lord of the sheep, and
that house was low, but the tower was
elevated and lofty, and the Lord of the
sheep stood on that tower and they
offered a full table before Him. 51 And
again I saw those sheep that they again
erred and went many ways, and forsook
that their house, and the Lord of the sheep
called some from amongst the sheep and
sent them to the sheep, 52 but the sheep
began to slay them. And one of them was
saved and was not slain, and it sped away
and cried aloud over the sheep; and they
sought to slay it, but the Lord of the sheep
saved it from 53 the sheep, and brought it
up to me, and caused it to dwell there.
And many other sheep He sent to those
sheep to testify unto them and lament over
them. And after that I saw that when they
forsook the house of the Lord and His
tower they fell away entirely, and their
eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of
the sheep how He wrought much
slaughter amongst them in their herds until
55 those sheep invited that slaughter and
betrayed His place. And He gave them
over into the hands of the lions and tigers,
and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand
of the foxes, and to all the wild 56 beasts,
and those wild beasts began to tear in
pieces those sheep. And I saw that He
forsook that their house and their tower
and gave them all into the hand of the
lions, to tear and devour them, 57 into the
hand of all the wild beasts. And I began to
cry aloud with all my power, and to
appeal to the Lord of the sheep, and to
represent to Him in regard to the sheep
that they were devoured 58 by all the wild
beasts. But He remained unmoved,
though He saw it, and rejoiced that they
were devoured and swallowed and
robbed, and left them to be devoured in
the hand of all the beasts. 59 And He
called seventy shepherds, and cast those
sheep to them that they might pasture
them, and He spake to the shepherds and
their companions: Let each individual of
you pasture the sheep 60 henceforward,
and everything that I shall command you
that do ye. And I will deliver them over
unto you duly numbered, and tell you
which of them are to be destroyed-and
them destroy ye. And 61 He gave over
unto them those sheep. And He called
another and spake unto him: Observe and
mark everything that the shepherds will do
to those sheep; for they will destroy more
of them than 62 I have commanded them.
And every excess and the destruction
which will be wrought through the
shepherds, record (namely) how many
they destroy according to my command,
and how many according to their own
caprice: record against every individual
shepherd all the destruction he 63 effects.
And read out before me by number how
many they destroy, and how many they
deliver over for destruction, that I may
have this as a testimony against them, and
know every deed of the shepherds, that I
may comprehend and see what they do,
whether or not they abide by my 64
command which I have commanded them.
But they shall not know it, and thou shalt
not declare it to them, nor admonish them,
but only record against each individual all
the destruction which 65 the shepherds
effect each in his time and lay it all before
me. And I saw till those shepherds
pastured in their season, and they began
to slay and to destroy more than they
were bidden, and they delivered 66 those
sheep into the hand of the lions. And the
lions and tigers eat and devoured the
greater part of those sheep, and the wild
boars eat along with them; and they burnt
that tower and demolished 67 that house.
And I became exceedingly sorrowful over
that tower because that house of the
sheep was demolished, and afterwards I
was unable to see if those sheep entered
that house. 68 And the shepherds and
their associates delivered over those
sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour
them, and each one of them received in
his time a definite number: it was written
by the other 69 in a book how many each
one of them destroyed of them. And each
one slew and destroyed many 70 more
than was prescribed; and I began to weep
and lament on account of those sheep.
And thus in the vision I saw that one who
wrote, how he wrote down every one that
was destroyed by those shepherds, day
by day, and carried up and laid down and
showed actually the whole book to the
Lord of the sheep-(even) everything that
they had done, and all that each one of
them had made 71 away with, and all that
they had given over to destruction. And
the book was read before the Lord of the
sheep, and He took the book from his
hand and read it and sealed it and laid it
down. 72 And forthwith I saw how the
shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and
behold three of those sheep turned back
and came and entered and began to build
up all that had fallen down of that 73
house; but the wild boars tried to hinder
them, but they were not able. And they
began again to build as before, and they
reared up that tower, and it was named
the high tower; and they began again to
place a table before the tower, but all the
bread on it was polluted and not pure. 74
And as touching all this the eyes of those
sheep were blinded so that they saw not,
and (the eyes of) their shepherds likewise;
and they delivered them in large numbers
to their shepherds for 75 destruction, and
they trampled the sheep with their feet and
devoured them. And the Lord of the
sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep
were dispersed over the field and mingled
with them (i.e. the 76 beasts), and they
(i.e. the shepherds) did not save them out
of the hand of the beasts. And this one
who wrote the book carried it up, and
showed it and read it before the Lord of
the sheep, and implored Him on their
account, and besought Him on their
account as he showed Him all the doings
77 of the shepherds, and gave testimony
before Him against all the shepherds. And
he took the actual book and laid it down
beside Him and departed.
Chapter 90
1 And I saw till that in this manner
thirty-five shepherds undertook the
pasturing (of the sheep), and they
severally completed their periods as did
the first; and others received them into
their 2 hands, to pasture them for their
period, each shepherd in his own period.
And after that I saw in my vision all the
birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the
vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the
eagles led all the birds; and they began to
devour those sheep, and to pick out their
eyes and to 3 devour their flesh. And the
sheep cried out because their flesh was
being devoured by the birds, 4 and as for
me I looked and lamented in my sleep
over that shepherd who pastured the
sheep. And I saw until those sheep were
devoured by the dogs and eagles and
kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin
nor sinew remaining on them till only their
bones stood there: and their bones too fell
5 to the earth and the sheep became few.
And I saw until that twenty-three had
undertaken the pasturing and completed in
their several periods fifty-eight times. 6
But behold lambs were borne by those
white sheep, and they began to open their
eyes and to see, 7 and to cry to the
sheep. Yea, they cried to them, but they
did not hearken to what they said to 8
them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their
eyes were very exceedingly blinded. And
I saw in the vision how the ravens flew
upon those lambs and took one of those
lambs, and dashed the sheep 9 in pieces
and devoured them. And I saw till horns
grew upon those lambs, and the ravens
cast down their horns; and I saw till there
sprouted a great horn of one of those
sheep, and their eyes 10 were opened.
And it looked at themand their eyes
opened
, and it cried to the sheep, and the 11
rams saw it and all ran to it. And
notwithstanding all this those eagles and
vultures and ravens and kites still kept
tearing the sheep and swooping down
upon them and devouring them: still the
sheep remained silent, but the rams
lamented and cried out. And those ravens
fought and battled with it and sought to lay
low its horn, but they had no power over
it. All the eagles and vultures and ravens
and kites were gathered together, and
there came with them all the sheep of the
field, yea, they all came together, and
helped each other to break that horn of
the ram. 19 And I saw till a great sword
was given to the sheep, and the sheep
proceeded against all the beasts of the
field to slay them, and all the beasts and
the birds of the heaven fled before their
face. And I saw that man, who wrote the
book according to the command of the
Lord, till he opened that book concerning
the destruction which those twelve last
shepherds had wrought, and showed that
they had destroyed much more than their
predecessors, before the Lord of the
sheep. And I saw till the Lord of the
sheep came unto them and took in His
hand the staff of His wrath, and smote the
earth, and the earth clave asunder, and all
the beasts and all the birds of the heaven
fell from among those sheep, and were
swallowed up in the earth and it covered
them. 20 And I saw till a throne was
erected in the pleasant land, and the Lord
of the sheep sat Himself thereon, and the
other took the sealed books and opened
those books before the Lord of the sheep.
21 And the Lord called those men the
seven first white ones, and commanded
that they should bring before Him,
beginning with the first star which led the
way, all the stars whose privy members
22 were like those of horses, and they
brought them all before Him. And He said
to that man who wrote before Him, being
one of those seven white ones, and said
unto him: Take those seventy shepherds
to whom I delivered the sheep, and who
taking them on their own authority slew
more 23 than I commanded them. And
behold they were all bound, I saw, and
they all stood before Him. 24 And the
judgement was held first over the stars,
and they were judged and found guilty,
and went to the place of condemnation,
and they were cast into an abyss, full of
fire and flaming, and full 25 of pillars of
fire. And those seventy shepherds were
judged and found guilty, and they were
cast 26 into that fiery abyss. And I saw at
that time how a like abyss was opened in
the midst of the earth, full of fire, and they
brought those blinded sheep, and they
were all judged and found guilty and 27
cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned;
now this abyss was to the right of that
house. And I saw those sheep burning
and their bones burning. 28 And I stood
up to see till they folded up that old house;
and carried off all the pillars, and all the
beams and ornaments of the house were
at the same time folded up with it, and
they carried 29 it off and laid it in a place
in the south of the land. And I saw till the
Lord of the sheep brought a new house
greater and loftier than that first, and set it
up in the place of the first which had beer
folded up: all its pillars were new, and its
ornaments were new and larger than those
of the first, the old one which He had
taken away, and all the sheep were within
it. 30 And I saw all the sheep which had
been left, and all the beasts on the earth,
and all the birds of the heaven, falling
down and doing homage to those sheep
and making petition to and obeying 31
them in every thing. And thereafter those
three who were clothed in white and had
seized me by my handwho had taken me
up before
, and the hand of that ram also seizing
hold of me, they 32 took me up and set
me down in the midst of those sheep
before the judgement took place. And
those 33 sheep were all white, and their
wool was abundant and clean. And all
that had been destroyed and dispersed,
and all the beasts of the field, and all the
birds of the heaven, assembled in that
house, and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced
with great joy because they were all good
and had returned to 34 His house. And I
saw till they laid down that sword, which
had been given to the sheep, and they
brought it back into the house, and it was
sealed before the presence of the Lord,
and all the sheep 35 were invited into that
house, but it held them not. And the eyes
of them all were opened, and they 36 saw
the good, and there was not one among
them that did not see. And I saw that that
house was large and broad and very full.
37 And I saw that a white bull was born,
with large horns and all the beasts of the
field and all the 38 birds of the air feared
him and made petition to him all the time.
And I saw till all their generations were
transformed, and they all became white
bulls; and the first among them became a
lamb, and that lamb became a great
animal and had great black horns on its
head; and the Lord of the sheep 39
rejoiced over it and over all the oxen. And
I slept in their midst: and I awoke and saw
everything. 40 This is the vision which I
saw while I slept, and I awoke and
blessed the Lord of righteousness and 41
gave Him glory. Then I wept with a great
weeping and my tears stayed not till I
could no longer endure it: when I saw,
they flowed on account of what I had
seen; for everything shall come and 42 be
fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their
order were shown to me. On that night I
remembered the first dream, and because
of it I wept and was troubled-because I
had seen that vision.
Chapter 91
1 And now, my son Methuselah, call to
me all thy brothers
And gather together to me all the sons of
thy mother;
For the word calls me,
And the spirit is poured out upon me,
That I may show you everything
That shall befall you for ever.
2 And there upon Methuselah went and
summoned to him all his brothers and
assembled his relatives.
3 And he spake unto all the children of
righteousness and said:
Hear, ye sons of Enoch, all the words of
your father,
And hearken aright to the voice of my
mouth;
For I exhort you and say unto you,
beloved:
4 Love uprightness and walk therein.
And draw not nigh to uprightness with a
double heart,
And associate not with those of a double
heart,
But walk in righteousness, my sons.
And it shall guide you on good paths,
And righteousness shall be your
companion.
5 For I know that violence must increase
on the earth,
And a great chastisement be executed on
the earth,
And all unrighteousness come to an end:
Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,
And its whole structure be destroyed.
6 And unrighteousness shall again be
consummated on the earth,
And all the deeds of unrighteousness and
of violence
And transgression shall prevail in a
twofold degree.
7 And when sin and unrighteousness and
blasphemy
And violence in all kinds of deeds
increase,
And apostasy and transgression and
uncleanness increase,
A great chastisement shall come from
heaven upon all these,
And the holy Lord will come forth with
wrath and chastisement
To execute judgement on earth.
8 In those days violence shall be cut off
from its roots,
And the roots of unrighteousness together
with deceit,
And they shall be destroyed from under
heaven.
9 And all the idols of the heathen shall be
abandoned,
And the temples burned with fire,
And they shall remove them from the
whole earth,
And they (i.e. the heathen) shall be cast
into the judgement of fire,
And shall perish in wrath and in grievous
judgement for ever.
10 And the righteous shall arise from their
sleep,
And wisdom shall arise and be given unto
them.
And after that the roots of unrighteousness
shall be cut off, and the sinners shall be
destroyed by the sword . . . shall be cut
off from the blasphemers in every place,
and those who plan violence and those
who commit blasphemy shall perish by the
sword.
18 And now I tell you, my sons, and
show you
The paths of righteousness and the paths
of violence.
Yea, I will show them to you again
That ye may know what will come to
pass.
19 And now, hearken unto me, my sons,
And walk in the paths of righteousness,
And walk not in the paths of violence;
For all who walk in the paths of
unrighteousness shall perish for ever.
Chapter 92
1 The book written by Enoch-Enoch
indeed wrote this complete doctrine of
wisdom, (which is) praised of all men and
a judge of all the earth
for all my children who shall dwell on the
earth. And for the future generations who
shall observe uprightness and peace.
2 Let not your spirit be troubled on
account of the times;
For the Holy and Great One has
appointed days for all things.
3 And the righteous one shall arise from
sleep,
Shall arise
and walk in the paths of righteousness,
And all his path and conversation shall be
in eternal goodness and grace.
4 He will be gracious to the righteous and
give him eternal uprightness,
And He will give him power so that he
shall be (endowed) with goodness and
righteousness.
And he shall walk in eternal light.
5 And sin shall perish in darkness for
ever,
And shall no more be seen from that day
for evermore.
Chapter 93
1,2 And after that Enoch both gave and
began to recount from the books. And
Enoch said:
Concerning the children of righteousness
and concerning the elect of the world,
And concerning the plant of uprightness, I
will speak these things,
Yea, I Enoch will declare (them) unto
you, my sons:
According to that which appeared to me
in the heavenly vision,
And which I have known through the
word of the holy angels,
And have learnt from the heavenly tablets.
3 And Enoch began to recount from the
books and said:
I was born the seventh in the first week,
While judgement and righteousness still
endured.
4 And after me there shall arise in the
second week great wickedness,
And deceit shall have sprung up;
And in it there shall be the first end.
And in it a man shall be saved;
And after it is ended unrighteousness shall
grow up,
And a law shall be made for the sinners.
And after that in the third week at its close
A man shall be elected as the plant of
righteous judgement,
And his posterity shall become the plant
of righteousness for evermore.
6 And after that in the fourth week, at its
close,
Visions of the holy and righteous shall be
seen,
And a law for all generations and an
enclosure shall be made for them.
7 And after that in the fifth week, at its
close,
The house of glory and dominion shall be
built for ever.
8 And after that in the sixth week all who
live in it shall be blinded,
And the hearts of all of them shall
godlessly forsake wisdom.
And in it a man shall ascend;
And at its close the house of dominion
shall be burnt with fire,
And the whole race of the chosen root
shall be dispersed.
9 And after that in the seventh week shall
an apostate generation arise,
And many shall be its deeds,
And all its deeds shall be apostate.
10 And at its close shall be elected
The elect righteous of the eternal plant of
righteousness,
To receive sevenfold instruction
concerning all His creation.
11For who is there of all the children of
men that is able to hear the voice of the
Holy One without being troubled ? And
who can think His thoughts ? and who is
there that can behold all the works 12 of
heaven ? And how should there be one
who could behold the heaven, and who is
there that could understand the things of
heaven and see a soul or a spirit and
could tell thereof, or ascend and see 13 all
their ends and think them or do like them
? And who is there of all men that could
know what is the breadth and the length
of the earth, and to whom has been
shown the measure of all of them ? 14 Or
is there any one who could discern the
length of the heaven and how great is its
height, and upon what it is founded, and
how great is the number of the stars, and
where all the luminaries rest ?
Chapter 94
1 And now I say unto you, my sons, love
righteousness and walk therein;
For the paths of righteousness are worthy
of acceptation,
But the paths of unrighteousness shall
suddenly be destroyed and vanish.
2 And to certain men of a generation shall
the paths of violence and of death be
revealed,
And they shall hold themselves afar from
them,
And shall not follow them.
3 And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor
in the paths of death,
And draw not nigh to them, lest ye be
destroyed.
4 But seek and choose for yourselves
righteousness and an elect life,
And walk in the paths of peace,
And ye shall live and prosper.
5 And hold fast my words in the thoughts
of your hearts,
And suffer them not to be effaced from
your hearts;
For I know that sinners will tempt men to
evilly-entreat wisdom,
So that no place may be found for her,
And no manner of temptation may minish.
6 Woe to those who build
unrighteousness and oppression
And lay deceit as a foundation;
For they shall be suddenly overthrown,
And they shall have no peace.
7 Woe to those who build their houses
with sin;
For from all their foundations shall they be
overthrown,
And by the sword shall they fall.
And those who acquire gold and silver in
judgement suddenly shall perish.
8 Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted
in your riches,
And from your riches shall ye depart,
Because ye have not remembered the
Most High in the days of your riches.
9 Ye have committed blasphemy and
unrighteousness,
And have become ready for the day of
slaughter,
And the day of darkness and the day of
the great judgement.
10 Thus I speak and declare unto you:
He who hath created you will overthrow
you,
And for your fall there shall be no
compassion,
And your Creator will rejoice at your
destruction.
11 And your righteous ones in those days
shall be
A reproach to the sinners and the godless.
Chapter 95
1 Oh that mine eyes werea cloud of
waters
That I might weep over you,
And pour down my tears as a cloud of
waters:
That so I might rest from my trouble of
heart!
2 who has permitted you to practice
reproaches and wickedness ?
And so judgement shall overtake you,
sinners.
3 Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;
For again will the Lord deliver them into
your hands,
That ye may execute judgement upon
them according to your desires.
4 Woe to you who fulminate anathemas
which cannot be reversed:
Healing shall therefore be far from you
because of your sins.
5 Woe to you who requite your neighbour
with evil;
For ye shall be requited according to your
works.
6 Woe to you, lying witnesses,
And to those who weigh out injustice,
For suddenly shall ye perish.
7 Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute
the righteous;
For ye shall be delivered up and
persecuted because of injustice,
And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.
Chapter 96
1 Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly
shall the sinners perish before you,
And ye shall have lordship over them
according to your desires.
2 And in the day of the tribulation of the
sinners,
Your children shall mount and rise as
eagles,
And higher than the vultures will be your
nest,
And ye shall ascend and enter the
crevices of the earth,
And the clefts of the rock for ever as
coneys before the unrighteous,
And the sirens shall sigh because of
you-and weep.
3 Wherefore fear not, ye that have
suffered;
For healing shall be your portion,
And a bright light shall enlighten you,
And the voice of rest ye shall hear from
heaven.
4 Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your
riches make you appear like the righteous,
But your hearts convict you of being
sinners,
And this fact shall be a testimony against
you for a memorial of (your) evil deeds.
5 Woe to you who devour the finest of
the wheat,
And drink wine in large bowls,
And tread under foot the lowly with your
might.
6 Woe to you who drink water from
every fountain,
For suddenly shall ye be consumed and
wither away,
Because ye have forsaken the fountain of
life.
7 Woe to you who work unrighteousness
And deceit and blasphemy:
It shall be a memorial against you for evil.
8 Woe to you, ye mighty,
Who with might oppress the righteous;
For the day of your destruction is coming.
In those days many and good days shall
come to the righteous-in the day of your
judgement.
Chapter 97
1 Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners
will become a shame
And perish in the day of unrighteousness.
2 Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that
the Most High is mindful of your
destruction,
And the angels of heaven rejoice over
your destruction.
3 What will ye do, ye sinners,
And whither will ye flee on that day of
judgement,
When ye hear the voice of the prayer of
the righteous ?
4 Yea, ye shall fare like unto them,
Against whom this word shall be a
testimony:
" Ye have been companions of sinners."
5 And in those days the prayer of the
righteous shall reach unto the Lord,
And for you the days of your judgement
shall come.
6 And all the words of your
unrighteousness shall be read out before
the Great Holy One,
And your faces shall be covered with
shame,
And He will reject every work which is
grounded on unrighteousness.
7 Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the
mid ocean and on the dry land,
Whose remembrance is evil against you.
8 Woe to you who acquire silver and gold
in unrighteousness and say:
" We have become rich with riches and
have possessions;
And have acquired everything we have
desired.
9 And now let us do what we purposed:
For we have gathered silver,
9c And many are the husbandmen in our
houses."
9d And our granaries are (brim) full as
with water,
10 Yea and like water your lies shall flow
away;
For your riches shall not abide
But speedily ascend from you;
For ye have acquired it all in
unrighteousness,
And ye shall be given over to a great
curse.
Chapter 98
1 And now I swear unto you, to the wise
and to the foolish,
For ye shall have manifold experiences on
the earth.
2 For ye men shall put on more
adornments than a woman,
And coloured garments more than a
virgin:
In royalty and in grandeur and in power,
And in silver and in gold and in purple,
And in splendour and in food they shall be
poured out as water.
3 Therefore they shall be wanting in
doctrine and wisdom,
And they shall perish thereby together
with their possessions;
And with all their glory and their
splendour,
And in shame and in slaughter and in great
destitution,
Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace
of fire.
4 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a
mountain has not become a slave,
And a hill does not become the handmaid
of a woman,
Even so sin has not been sent upon the
earth,
But man of himself has created it,
And under a great curse shall they fall
who commit it.
5 And barrenness has not been given to
the woman,
But on account of the deeds of her own
hands she dies without children.
6 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by
the Holy Great One,
That all your evil deeds are revealed in the
heavens,
And that none of your deeds of
oppression are covered and hidden.
7 And do not think in your spirit nor say in
your heart that ye do not know and that
ye do not see 8 that every sin is every day
recorded in heaven in the presence of the
Most High. From henceforth ye know that
all your oppression wherewith ye oppress
is written down every day till the day of
your judgement. 9 Woe to you, ye fools,
for through your folly shall ye perish: and
ye transgress against the wise, 10 and so
good hap shall not be your portion. And
now, know ye that ye are prepared for
the day of destruction: wherefore do not
hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall
depart and die; for ye know no ransom;
for ye are prepared for the day of the
great judgement, for the day of tribulation
and great shame for your spirits. 11 Woe
to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work
wickedness and eat blood: Whence have
ye good things to eat and to drink and to
be filled ? From all the good things which
the Lord the Most High has placed in
abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall
have no peace. 12 Woe to you who love
the deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore
do ye hope for good hap unto yourselves?
know that ye shall be delivered into the
hands of the righteous, and they shall cut 3
off your necks and slay you, and have no
mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice
in the tribulation of the righteous; for no
grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you
who set at nought the words of 5 the
righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life.
Woe to you who write down lying and
godless words; for they write down their
lies that men may hear them and act
godlessly towards (their) 6 neighbour.
Therefore they shall have no peace but die
a sudden death.
Chapter 99
1 Woe to you who work godlessness,
And glory in lying and extol them:
Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be
yours.
2 Woe to them who pervert the words of
uprightness,
And transgress the eternal law,
And transform themselves into what they
were notinto sinners:
They shall be trodden under foot upon the
earth.
3 In those days make ready, ye righteous,
to raise your prayers as a memorial,
And place them as a testimony before the
angels,
That they may place the sin of the sinners
for a memorial before the Most High.
4 In those days the nations shall be stirred
up,
And the families of the nations shall arise
on the day of destruction.
5 And in those days the destitute shall go
forth and carry off their children,
And they shall abandon them, so that their
children shall perish through them:
Yea, they shall abandon their children
(that are still) sucklings, and not return to
them,
And shall have no pity on their beloved
ones.
6, 7 And again I swear to you, ye sinners,
that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing
bloodshed. And they who worship stones,
and grave images of gold and silver and
wood (and stone) and clay, and those
who worship impure spirits and demons,
and all kinds of idols not according to
knowledge, shall get no manner of help
from them.
8 And they shall become godless by
reason of the folly of their hearts,
And their eyes shall be blinded through
the fear of their hearts
And through visions in their dreams.
9 Through these they shall become
godless and fearful;
For they shall have wrought all their work
in a lie,
And shall have worshiped a stone:
Therefore in an instant shall they perish.
10 But in those days blessed are all they
who accept the words of wisdom, and
understand them,
And observe the paths of the Most High,
and walk in the path of His righteousness,
And become not godless with the godless;
For they shall be saved.
11 Woe to you who spread evil to your
neighbours;
For you shall be slain in Sheol.
12 Woe to you who make deceitful and
false measures,
And (to them) who cause bitterness on
the earth;
For they shall thereby be utterly
consumed.
13 Woe to you who build your houses
through the grievous toil of others,
And all their building materials are the
bricks and stones of sin;
I tell you ye shall have no peace.
14 Woe to them who reject the measure
and eternal heritage of their fathers
And whose souls follow after idols;
For they shall have no rest.
15 Woe to them who work
unrighteousness and help oppression,
And slay their neighbours until the day of
the great judgement.
16 For He shall cast down your glory,
And bring affliction on your hearts,
And shall arouse His fierce indignation
And destroy you all with the sword;
And all the holy and righteous shall
remember your sins.
Chapter 100
1 And in those days in one place the
fathers together with their sons shall be
smitten
And brothers one with another shall fall in
death
Till the streams flow with their blood.
2 For a man shall not withhold his hand
from slaying his sons and his sons sons,
And the sinner shall not withhold his hand
from his honoured brother:
From dawn till sunset they shall slay one
another.
3 And the horse shall walk up to the
breast in the blood of sinners,
And the chariot shall be submerged to its
height.
4 In those days the angels shall descend
into the secret places
And gather together into one place all
those who brought down sin
And the Most High will arise on that day
of judgement
To execute great judgement amongst
sinners.
5 And over all the righteous and holy He
will appoint guardians from amongst the
holy angels
To guard them as the apple of an eye,
Until He makes an end of all wickedness
and all sin,
And though the righteous sleep a long
sleep, they have nought to fear.
6 And (then) the children of the earth shall
see the wise in security,
And shall understand all the words of this
book,
And recognize that their riches shall not be
able to save them
In the overthrow of their sins.
7 Woe to you, Sinners, on the day of
strong anguish,
Ye who afflict the righteous and burn them
with fire:
Ye shall be requited according to your
works.
8 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
Who watch in order to devise
wickedness:
Therefore shall fear come upon you
And there shall be none to help you.
9 Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of
the words of your mouth,
And on account of the deeds of your
hands which your godlessness as wrought,
In blazing flames burning worse than fire
shall ye burn.
10 And now, know ye that from the
angels He will inquire as to your deeds in
heaven, from the sun and from the moon
and from the stars in reference to your
sins because upon the earth ye execute 11
judgement on the righteous. And He will
summon to testify against you every cloud
and mist and dew and rain; for they shall
all be withheld because of you from
descending upon you, and they 12 shall
be mindful of your sins. And now give
presents to the rain that it be not withheld
from descending upon you, nor yet the
dew, when it has received gold and silver
from you that it may descend. When the
hoar-frost and snow with their chilliness,
and all the snow-storms with all their
plagues fall upon you, in those days ye
shall not be able to stand before them.
Chapter 101
1 Observe the heaven, ye children of
heaven, and every work of the Most
High, and fear ye Him 2 and work no evil
in His presence. If He closes the windows
of heaven, and withholds the rain and 3
the dew from descending on the earth on
your account, what will ye do then? And if
He sends His anger upon you because of
your deeds, ye cannot petition Him; for ye
spake proud and insolent 4 words against
His righteousness: therefore ye shall have
no peace. And see ye not the sailors of
the ships, how their ships are tossed to
and fro by the waves, and are shaken by
the winds, and are 5 in sore trouble ? And
therefore do they fear because all their
goodly possessions go upon the sea with
them, and they have evil forebodings of
heart that the sea will swallow them and
they will 6 perish therein. Are not the
entire sea and all its waters, and all its
movements, the work of the Most 7 High,
and has He not set limits to its doings, and
confined it throughout by the sand ? And
at His reproof it is afraid and dries up, and
all its fish die and all that is in it; But ye
sinners that are 8 on the earth fear Him
not. Has He not made the heaven and the
earth, and all that is therein ? Who has
given understanding and wisdom to
everything that moves on the earth and in
the sea. 9 Do not the sailors of the ships
fear the sea ? Yet sinners fear not the
Most High.
Chapter 102
1 In those days when He hath brought a
grievous fire upon you,
Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find
deliverance ?
And when He launches forth His Word
against you Will you not be affrighted and
fear ?
2 And all the luminaries shall be affrighted
with great fear,
And all the earth shall be affrighted and
tremble and be alarmed.
3 And all the angels shall execute their
commandst
And shall seek to hide themselves from
the presence of the Great Glory,
And the children of earth shall tremble and
quake;
And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever,
And ye shall have no peace.
4 Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,
And be hopeful ye that have died in
righteousness.
5 And grieve not if your soul into Sheol
has descended in grief,
And that in your life your body fared not
according to your goodness,
But wait for the day of the judgement of
sinners
And for the day of cursing and
chastisement.
6 And yet when ye die the sinners speak
over you:
" As we die, so die the righteous,
And what benefit do they reap for their
deeds ?
7 Behold, even as we, so do they die in
grief and darkness,
And what have they more than we ?
From henceforth we are equal.
8 And what will they receive and what will
they see for ever ?
Behold, they too have died,
And henceforth for ever shall they see no
light."
9 I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to
eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip
men naked, and 10 acquire wealth and
see good days. Have ye seen the
righteous how their end falls out, that no
manner 11 of violence is found in them till
their death ? " Nevertheless they perished
and became as though they had not been,
and their spirits descended into Sheol in
tribulation."
Chapter 103
1 Now, therefore, I swear to you, the
righteous, by the glory of the Great and
Honoured and 2 Mighty One in dominion,
and by His greatness I swear to you.
I know a mystery
And have read the heavenly tablets,
And have seen the holy books,
And have found written therein and
inscribed regarding them:
3 That all goodness and joy and glory are
prepared for them,
And written down for the spirits of those
who have died in righteousness,
And that manifold good shall be given to
you in recompense for your labours,
And that your lot is abundantly beyond
the lot of the living.
4 And the spirits of you who have died in
righteousness shall live and rejoice,
And their spirits shall not perish, nor their
memorial from before the face of the
Great One
Unto all the generations of the world:
wherefore no longer fear their contumely.
5 Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have
died,
If ye die in the wealth of your sins,
And those who are like you say regarding
you:
Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all
their days.
6 And how they have died in prosperity
and in wealth,
And have not seen tribulation or murder in
their life;
And they have died in honour,
And judgement has not been executed on
them during their life."
7 Know ye, that their souls will be made
to descend into Sheol
And they shall be wretched in their great
tribulation.
8 And into darkness and chains and a
burning flame where there is grievous
judgement shall your spirits enter;
And the great judgement shall be for all
the generations of the world.
Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.
9 Say not in regard to the righteous and
good who are in life:
" In our troubled days we have toiled
laboriously and experienced every
trouble,
And met with much evil and been
consumed,
And have become few and our spirit
small.
10 And we have been destroyed and
have not found any to help us even with a
word:
We have been torturedand destroyed,
and not hoped to see life from day to
day.
11 We hoped to be the head and have
become the tail:
We have toiled laboriously and had no
satisfaction in our toil;
And we have become the food of the
sinners and the unrighteous,
And they have laid their yoke heavily
upon us.
12 They have had dominion over us that
hated us and smote us;
And to those that hated us we have
bowed our necks
But they pitied us not.
13 We desired to get away from them
that we might escape and be at rest,
But found no place whereunto we should
flee and be safe from them.
14 And are complained to the rulers in
our tribulation,
And cried out against those who
devoured us,
But they did not attend to our cries
And would not hearken to our voice.
15 And they helped those who robbed us
and devoured us and those who made us
few; and they concealed their oppression,
and they did not remove from us the yoke
of those that devoured us and dispersed
us and murdered us, and they concealed
their murder, and remembered not that
they had lifted up their hands against us.
Chapter 104
1 I swear unto you, that in heaven the
angels remember you for good before the
glory of the Great 2 One: and your names
are written before the glory of the Great
One. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were
put to shame through ill and affliction; but
now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven,
3 ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and
the portals of heaven shall be opened to
you. And in your cry, cry for judgement,
and it shall appear to you; for all your
tribulation shall be visited on the 4 rulers,
and on all who helped those who
plundered you. Be hopeful, and cast not
away your hopes for ye shall have great
joy as the angels of heaven. What shall ye
be obliged to do ? Ye shall not have to
hide on the day of the great judgement
and ye shall not be found as sinners, and
the eternal 6 judgement shall be far from
you for all the generations of the world.
And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye
see the sinners growing strong and
prospering in their ways: be not
companions with them, 7 but keep afar
from their violence; for ye shall become
companions of the hosts of heaven. And,
although ye sinners say: " All our sins shall
not be searched out and be written
down," nevertheless 8 they shall write
down all your sins every day. And now I
show unto you that light and darkness, 9
day and night, see all your sins. Be not
godless in your hearts, and lie not and
alter not the words of uprightness, nor
charge with lying the words of the Holy
Great One, nor take account of your 10
idols; for all your lying and all your
godlessness issue not in righteousness but
in great sin. And now I know this mystery,
that sinners will alter and pervert the
words of righteousness in many ways, and
will speak wicked words, and lie, and
practice great deceits, and write books
concerning 11 their words. But when they
write down truthfully all my words in their
languages, and do not change or minish
ought from my words but write them all
down truthfully -all that I first testified 12
concerning them. Then, I know another
mystery, that books will be given to the
righteous and the 13 wise to become a
cause of joy and uprightness and much
wisdom. And to them shall the books be
given, and they shall believe in them and
rejoice over them, and then shall all the
righteous who have learnt therefrom all the
paths of uprightness be recompensed.
Chapter 105
1 In those days the Lord bade (them) to
summon and testify to the children of earth
concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto
them; for ye are their guides, and a
recompense over the whole earth. 2 For I
and My son will be united with them for
ever in the paths of uprightness in their
lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye
children of uprightness. Amen.
Chapter 106
1 And after some days my son
Methuselah took a wife for his son
Lamech, and she became 2 pregnant by
him and bore a son. And his body was
white as snow and red as the blooming of
a rose, and the hair of his head and his
long locks were white as wool, and his
eyes beautiful. And when he opened his
eyes, he lighted up the whole house like
the sun, and the whole house 3 was very
bright. And thereupon he arose in the
hands of the midwife, opened his mouth,
and conversed with the Lord of
righteousness. 4 And his father Lamech
was afraid of him and 5 fled, and came to
his father Methuselah. And he said unto
him: I have begotten a strange son,
diverse from and unlike man, and
resembling the sons of the God of heaven;
and his nature is different and he is not like
us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun,
and his 6 countenance is glorious. And it
seems to me that he is not sprung from me
but from the angels, and I fear that in his
days a wonder may be 7 wrought on the
earth. And now, my father, I am here to
petition thee and implore thee that thou
mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn
from him the truth, for his dwelling-place
is 8 amongst the angels. And when
Methuselah heard the words of his son, he
came to me to the ends of the earth; for
he had heard that 1 was there, and he
cried aloud, and I heard his voice and I
came to him. And 1 said unto him:
Behold, here am I, my son, wherefore
hast 9 thou come to me ? And he
answered and said: Because of a great
cause of anxiety have I come to thee, and
because of a disturbing vision 10 have I
approached. And now, my father, hear
me: unto Lamech my son there hath been
born a son, the like of whom there is
none, and his nature is not like mans
nature, and the colour of his body is
whiter than snow and redder than the
bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head
is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are
like the rays of the sun, and he opened his
eyes and 11 thereupon lighted up the
whole house. And he arose in the hands
of the midwife, and opened 12 his mouth
and blessed the Lord of heaven. And his
father Lamech became afraid and fled to
me, and did not believe that he was
sprung from him, but that he was in the
likeness of the angels of heaven; and
behold I have come to thee that thou
mayest make known to me the truth. And
I, Enoch, answered and said unto him:
The Lord will do a new thing on the earth,
and this I have already seen in a vision,
and make known to thee that in the
generation of my father Jared some of the
angels of heaven transgressed the word of
the Lord. And behold they commit sin and
transgress the law, and have united
themselves with women and commit sin
with them, and have married some of
them, and have begot children by them.
And they shall produce on the earth giants
not according to the spirit, but according
to the flesh, and there shall be a great
punishment on the earth, and the earth
shall be cleansed from all impurity. Yea,
there shall come a great destruction over
the whole earth, and there shall be a
deluge and 16 a great destruction for one
year. And this son who has been born
unto you shall be left on the earth, and his
three children shall be saved with him:
when all mankind that are on the earth 8
shall diehe and his sons shall be saved
. And now make known to thy son
Lamech that he who has been born is in
truth his son, and call his name Noah; for
he shall be left to you, and he and his sons
shall be saved from the destruction, which
shall come upon the earth on account of
all the sin and all the unrighteousness,
which shall be consummated on the earth
in his days. And after that there shall be
still more unrighteousness than that which
was first consummated on the earth; for I
know the mysteries of the holy ones; for
He, the Lord, has showed me and
informed me, and I have read (them) in
the heavenly tablets.
Chapter 107
1 And I saw written on them that
generation upon generation shall
transgress, till a generation of
righteousness arises, and transgression is
destroyed and sin passes away from the
earth, and all 2 manner of good comes
upon it. And now, my son, go and make
known to thy son Lamech that this 3 son,
which has been born, is in truth his son,
and that (this) is no lie. And when
Methuselah had heard the words of his
father Enoch-for he had shown to him
everything in secret-he returned and
showed (them) to him and called the name
of that son Noah; for he will comfort the
earth after all the destruction.
Chapter 108
1 Another book which Enoch wrote for
his son Methuselah and for those who will
come after him, 2 and keep the law in the
last days. Ye who have done good shall
wait for those days till an end is made of
those who work evil; and an end of the
might of the transgressors. And wait ye
indeed till sin has passed away, for their
names shall be blotted out of the book of
life and out of the holy books, and their
seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their
spirits shall be slain, and they shall cry and
make lamentation in a place that is a
chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall
they burn; for there is no earth there. And
I saw there something like an invisible
cloud; for by reason of its depth I could
not look over, and I saw a flame of fire
blazing brightly, and things like shining 5
mountains circling and sweeping to and
fro. And I asked one of the holy angels
who was with me and said unto him: What
is this shining thing? for it is not a heaven
but only the flame of a blazing 6 fire, and
the voice of weeping and crying and
lamentation and strong pain. And he said
unto me: This place which thou seest-here
are cast the spirits of sinners and
blasphemers, and of those who work
wickedness, and of those who pervert
everything that the Lord hath spoken
through the mouth 7 of the
prophets-(even) the things that shall be.
For some of them are written and
inscribed above in the heaven, in order
that the angels may read them and know
that which shall befall the sinners, and the
spirits of the humble, and of those who
have afflicted their bodies, and been
recompensed 8 by God; and of those
who have been put to shame by wicked
men: Who love God and loved neither
gold nor silver nor any of the good things
which are in the world, but gave over their
bodies to torture. Who, since they came
into being, longed not after earthly food,
but regarded everything as a passing
breath, and lived accordingly, and the
Lord tried them much, and their spirits