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 3 for to come. 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]
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]
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 2 them beautiful and comely
daughters. 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, Zaqiel,
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.
[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.
Section II. Chapters XXXVII-LXXI
The Parables
[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]
l 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 64]
1,2 And other forms I saw hidden in that place. I heard the voice of
the angel saying: ' These are the angels who descended to the earth, and
revealed what was hidden to the children of men and seduced the children
of men into committing sin.'
[Chapter 65]
1, 2 And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and
its destruction 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 Taba'et. 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.'
Section III. Chapters LXXII-LXXXII
The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries
[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
morning [in 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 sun's 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 three [after 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 there [and 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: 7 [the 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 days [her 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. 5 [And 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 father's 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: Milki'el,
Hel'emmelek, and Mel'ejal, 14 and Narel. And the names of those who lead
them: Adnar'el, and Ijasusa'el, and 'Elome'el- 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 Tam'aini 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: Berka'el, Zelebs'el, 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
Hel'emmelek, 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: Gida'ljal, Ke'el,
and He'el, and the name of the head of a thousand which is added to
them, Asfa'el: and the days of his dominion are at an end.
Section IV. Chapters LXXXIII-XC.
The Dream-Visions.
[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 Thee [for 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 them [amongst
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 them [which 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 them [and 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 hand [who 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.
Section V. XCI-CIV (i.e. XCII, XCI. 1-1O, 18-19,
XCIII. 1-1O, XCI. 12-17, XCIV-CIV.).
A Book of Exhortation and Promised Blessing for the Righteous and of
Malediction and Woe for the Sinners.
[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 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 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. 11 [For 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 91]
12 And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of
righteousness, And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous
judgement may be executed on the oppressors, And sinners shall be
delivered into the hands of the righteous. 13 And at its close they
shall acquire houses through their righteousness, And a house shall be
built for the Great King in glory for evermore, 14d And all mankind
shall look to the path of uprightness. 14a And after that, in the ninth
week, the righteous judgement shall be revealed to the whole world, b
And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the earth, c And
the world shall be written down for destruction. 15 And after this, in
the tenth week in the seventh part, There shall be the great eternal
judgement, In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels. 16 And
the first heaven shall depart and pass away, And a new heaven shall
appear, And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light. 17
And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever, And all
shall be in goodness and righteousness, And sin shall no more be
mentioned for ever.
[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 were [a 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 not [into 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 tortured [and 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.
Fragment of the Book of Noah
[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 man's 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 die [he 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 were 10 found pure so that they
should bless His name. And all the blessings destined for them I have
recounted in the books. And he hath assigned them their recompense,
because they have been found to be such as loved heaven more than their
life in the world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked
men, and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were put to shame,
11 yet they blessed Me. And now I will summon the spirits of the good
who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who
were born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed 12 with
such honour as their faithfulness deserved. And I will bring forth in
shining light those who 13 have loved My holy name, and I will seat each
on the throne of his honour. And they shall be resplendent for times
without number; for righteousness is the judgement of God; for to the
faithful 14 He will give faithfulness in the habitation of upright
paths. And they shall see those who were , 15 born in darkness led into
darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent. And the sinners
shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed will go where
days and seasons are prescribed for them.'