Section I. Chapters I-XXXVI
Introduction
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.
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.
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.
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 glowing heat, and so you cannot tread on the
earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.
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.
VI-XI. The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralization
of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced
by God on the Angels of the Messianic Kingdom-- (a Noah fragment).
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 Semjâzâ, 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: Samîazâz, their leader,
Arâkîba,
Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl,
Tâmîêl,
Râmîêl, Dânêl,
Êzêqêêl,
Barâqîjâl,
8
Asâêl, Armârôs,
Batârêl, Anânêl,
Zaqîêl,
Samsâpêêl, Satarêl,
Tûrêl,
Jômjâêl, Sariêl. These are their
chiefs of
tens.
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.
8
1
And Azâzêl 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. Semjâzâ
taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armârôs the resolving
of enchantments, Barâqîjâl (taught) astrology,
Kôkabêl the constellations, Êzêqêêl the
knowledge of the clouds, Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl
the signs of the sun, and Sariêl the course of the moon. And as men
perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven...
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
Azâzêl 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 Semjâzâ, 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.'
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
Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him
into the darkness: and make
an opening
5
in the desert, which is in
Dûdâêl, 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 Azâzêl: 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
Semjâzâ 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 sonshave 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.
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.'
XII-XVI. Dream-Vision of Enoch: his Intercession for
Azâzêl
and the Fallen Angels: and his Announcement of their
first and final Doom.
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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."'
13
1
And
Enoch went and said: 'Azâzêl, 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) 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
'Abelsjâîl, which is between Lebanon and
Sênêsêr,
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.
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 gat 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.
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.
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."'
XVII-XXXVI. Enoch's Journeys through the
Earth and Sheol.
XVII-XIX.
The First Journey.
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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.
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, one 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
15
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.'
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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.
XX. Names and Functions of the Seven
Archangels.
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. Saraqâêl,
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.
XXI-XXXVI. The Second
Journey of Enoch.
XXI.
Preliminary and final Place of Punishment of the fallen Angels
(stars).
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.'
XXII.
Sheol or the Underworld.
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.'
XXIII. The fire that
deals with the Luminaries of Heaven.
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.'
XXIV-XXV. The Seven Mountains in the North-West and the Tree of Life.
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.
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.
XXVI. Jerusalem and the Mountains, Ravines, and Streams.
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
5
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.
XXVII. The Purpose of the Accursed Valley.
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.
XXVIII-XXXIII. Further Journey to the
East.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
XXXIV-XXXV. Enoch's Journey to
the North.
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.
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.
XXXVI. The Journey to the South.
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.
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.
XXXVIII-XLIV. The First Parable.
XXXVIII. The Coming Judgement of the
Wicked.
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.
XXXIX. The Abode of the Righteous and the Elect One: the Praises of the Blessed.
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 extolthe 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
13
spirits."' And here my eyes saw all those who sleep
not: they stand before Him
and bless and say:
14
'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.
XL-XLI. 2. The Four
Archangels.
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.
XLI. 3-9. Astronomical
Secrets.
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.
XLII. The Dwelling-places of Wisdom
and of Unrighteousness.
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.
XLIII-XLIV. Astronomical
Secrets.
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.'
44
1
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.
XLV-LVII. The Second Parable.
XLV. The Lot of the Apostates: the
New Heaven and the New Earth.
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.
XLVI. The Head of Days and the Son of Man.
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.
XLVII. The Prayer
of the Righteous for Vengeance and their Joy at its coming.
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
Shallunite 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.
XLVIII. The Fount of Righteousness:
the Son of Man -the Stay of the Righteous:
Judgement of the Kings and the
Mighty.
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.
9
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.
XLIX. The Power and Wisdom of the
Elect One.
49
1
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 standethbefore 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.
L. The
Glorification and Victory of the Righteous: the Repentance of
the
Gentiles.
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.
LI. The Resurrection of the Dead, and
the Separation by the Judge of the
Righteous and the Wicked.
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.
LII. The Seven Metal Mountains
and the Elect One.
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.'
LIII-LIV. The Valley of Judgement: the Angels of Punishment:
the
Communities of the Elect One.
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.'
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
Azâzêl, 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.'
LIV.7.-LV.2.
Noachic Fragment on the first World Judgement.
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.
LV.3.-LVI.4.
Final Judgement of Azazel, the Watchers and their children.
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
Azâzêl, and all his associates, and all his hosts in the
name of the
Lord of Spirits.'
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.
LVI.5-8. Last
Struggle of the Heathen Powers against Israel.
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.'
LVII. The Return from the Dispersion.
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.
LVIII-LXXI. The Third Parable.
LVIII. The Blessedness of the
Saints.
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.
LIX. The
Lights and the Thunder.
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.]
Book of Noah -a
Fragment
LX. Quaking of the
Heaven: Behemoth and Leviathan: the Elements.
60
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
19
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,
23
and the angels take it in charge. And
these things I saw towards the Garden
of the Righteous.
24
And the angel of peace who was with me said to me:
'These two monsters,
prepared conformably to the greatness of God, shall
feed...
LXI. Angels go off
to measure Paradise: the Judgement of the Righteous by
the Elect One: the
Praise of the Elect One and of God.
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,
11
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.'
LXII. Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty: Blessedness of
the Righteous.
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.
5
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.
LXIII. The unavailing Repentance of the Kingsand the
Mighty.
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.
9
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.'
LXIV.
Vision of the Fallen Angels in the Place of Punishment.
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.'
LXV.
Enoch foretells to Noah the Deluge and his own Preservation.
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.
LXVI. The Angels of the Waters bidden
to hold them in Check.
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.
LXVII. God's Promise
to Noah: Places of Punishment of the Angels and of the Kings.
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.
LXVIII. Michael and Raphael astonied
at the Severity of the Judgement.
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.
LXIX. The Names and Functions of the
(fallen Angels and) Satans: the secret Oath.
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
Samjâzâ, the second Artâqîfâ, and the
third
Arm$ecirc;n, the fourth Kôkabêl, the
fifth
Tûrâêl, the sixth Rûmjâl, the
seventh
Dânjâl, the eighth Nêqâêl, the
ninth
Barâqêl, the tenth Azâzêl, the
eleventh
Armârôs, the twelfth Batarjâl, the thirteenth
Busasêjal,
the fourteenth Hanânêl, the fifteenth
Tûrêl, and the
sixteenth
Sîmâpêsîêl, the seventeenth Jetrêl,
the
eighteenth Tûmêêl, the nineteenth
Tûrêl,
3
the twentieth
Rûmâêl, the twenty-first Azâzêl.
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 Jeqôn: 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 Asbeêl: 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
Gâdreêl: 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
Pênêmûe: 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 Kâsdejâ: 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
Tabâ'et. And this is the task of
Kâsbeêl, the chief of the oath which he showed to the holy ones
when he dwelt high
14
above in glory, and its name is Bîqâ. 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
15
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 Akâe 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.
19
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.
This is the third parable of Enoch.
LXX. The Final Translation of Enoch.
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.
LXXI. Two earlier Visions of Enoch.
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
13
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.'
LXXII. The Sun.
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 t
