BOOK OF ENOCH WITH COMMENTARY - APOCRYPHOLOGY

When writing commentaries on the Book of Enoch, I seek to understand the truth in the stories told within. First, I am a staunch defender of the idea of the Nephilim, the hypothesis that giants lived on Earth in ancient times. I believe that celestial beings (angels) abandoned their posts in the heavens to live among us. From this mating of two species, giants were born, a hybrid species. Humanity was genetically corrupted, which led God to decide on the flood that killed that generation of hybrids and nearly wiped out humanity. But I don't believe the entire book was written by Enoch. I suppose there were alterations throughout history and that a considerable portion was added centuries before Christ. In any case, it is a very interesting read for those seeking to understand the origin of everything. This book was cursed by rabbis and some church fathers who believed that, because it was not part of the list of inspired Jewish books, it should be banned from Christian circles. This is all due to its profound mystery regarding the angelic question and the background to chapter 6 of the book of Genesis, which makes reading it somewhat intriguing.

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PURPOSE OF THIS WORK
This book, like the others I have published, aims
to lead people to become better, to love God above all
else and their neighbor as themselves. My works are not
intended to entertain, but to provoke reflection on our
existence. In God there is an answer for everything, but
the journey to knowledge is gradual, and we will not reach
answers for everything because our minds do not have
enough free space to support them. But in this book, you
will find some answers to some of the dilemmas of our
existence.

AUTHOR: SCRIBE OF CHRIST holds a degree in
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Paulo) and two diplomas from Harvard University in the
USA on Pauline Epistles and Medieval Manuscripts. He is
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BOOK OF ENOCH WITH COMMENTARY

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1. Teology 2. Bible 3. Apocriphology
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Sumário
INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 7
THE BOOK OF ENOCH .................................................... 23
CHAPTER 1 .......................................................................... 23
Chapter 5 ............................................................................... 27
Chapter 10 .............................................................................. 38
Chapter 15 .............................................................................. 54
Chapter 20 .............................................................................. 64
Chapter 25 .............................................................................. 73
Chapter 30 .............................................................................. 76
Chapter 35 .............................................................................. 81
Chapter 40 .............................................................................. 88
Chapter 45 .............................................................................. 94
Chapter 50 ............................................................................ 104
Chapter 55 ............................................................................. 114
Chapter 60 ............................................................................ 123
Chapter 65 ............................................................................ 135

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Chapter 70 ............................................................................ 149
Chapter 80 ............................................................................ 179
Chapter 85 ............................................................................ 193
Chapter 90 ............................................................................ 221
Chapter 95 ............................................................................ 233
Chapter 100 .......................................................................... 246
Chapter 105 .......................................................................... 256

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INTRODUCTION

When writing commentaries on the Book of
Enoch, I seek to understand the truth in the stories told
within. First, I am a staunch defender of the idea of the
Nephilim, the hypothesis that giants lived on Earth in
ancient times. I believe that celestial beings (angels)
abandoned their posts in the heavens to live among us.
From this mating of two species, giants were born, a
hybrid species. Humanity was genetically corrupted, which
led God to decide on the flood that killed that generation of
hybrids and nearly wiped out humanity. But I don't believe
the entire book was written by Enoch. I suppose there
were alterations throughout history and that a
considerable portion was added centuries before Christ. In
any case, it is a very interesting read for those seeking to
understand the origin of everything. This book was cursed
by rabbis and some church fathers who believed that,
because it was not part of the list of inspired Jewish
books, it should be banned from Christian circles. This is
all due to its profound mystery regarding the angelic

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question and the background to chapter 6 of the book of
Genesis, which makes reading it somewhat intriguing.
Thus, this book, once respected by Christians and
Jews, fell into disrepute precisely because of its claims
about fallen angels. Rabbi Simeon Ben Yohai, in the
second century, placed a curse on all who believed in it.
After being cursed, burned, banned, and lost for a
thousand years, the Book of Enoch returned to circulation
two centuries ago. In 1773, rumors of a copy of the book
led Scottish explorer James Bruce to Ethiopia. There, he
found a copy preserved by the Ethiopian church, which
places it alongside other books of the Bible. Christ
Examined Him
The current version of the Book of Enoch was
probably written sometime in the second century BC and
would have been popular for at least 500 years. The most
recent Ethiopian text was apparently written from a Greek
manuscript, which in turn was a copy of an even older
text. The original was likely written in the Semitic
languages (Aramaic, Hebrew). Although it was once
considered a post-Christian book due to its similarities
with Christian terminology and teachings, discoveries of

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copies of the book among the Dead Sea Scrolls at
Qumran prove that the book dates back to a period even
before the time of Jesus.
The book may not have been originally written by
Enoch, but may be the result of a set of traditions whose
origins have been lost to time. This is a conjecture, as the
true authorship of the book is a complete mystery. Many
first-century Christians considered it to be inspired
scripture.
Many concepts and terms used by Jesus himself
are directly related to the book, demonstrating that he not
only studied it but also respected it, to the point of
commenting on specific descriptions related to the coming
kingdom and the final judgment in which God's enemies
will participate. In 1891, the Reverend William J. Deane
protested the association between Jesus' teachings and
the recently published Book of Enoch, stating indignantly:
"We are compelled to believe that our Lord and
his apostles, consciously or unconsciously, added to their
speeches and writings ideas and expressions taken from
the book."

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In addition to the familiar Old Testament
quotations, Jesus may even have referred to prophecies
contained in apocryphal texts not included by the church
fathers and rabbis who selected the books that became
part of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Scriptures.
Many previously unknown texts discovered at Qumran
and Nag Hammadi (the Dead Sea Scrolls) indicate that
Jesus taught based on other, previously written sources.
Carbon-14 dating of manuscript copies of the book dates
back to 100/150 B.C. Charles Cutler Torrey, a professor at
Yale University, provides evidence that Jesus used
quotations from a lost apocryphal work. See Luke 11:49;
"Therefore the wisdom of God says: I will send
them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will
kill and some they will persecute."
The expression "wisdom of God" indicates that
Jesus is quoting directly from a source, likely an
apocryphal work, now lost. Furthermore, Torrey notes that
there are other references in the New Testament to
scriptures that are no longer extant and were known to the
apostles in the early years of the Christian era. One such
reference can be found in Matthew 27:9-10;

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“Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah
was fulfilled: They took thirty pieces of silver, the price set
by the Israelites, and gave them for the potter's field, as
the Lord commanded me.”
The text of Jeremiah from which Matthew took the
above quote is not in the prophet's current Old Testament
book. However, Jerome, a fourth-century church father,
wrote an account of how a member of the Nazarene sect
showed him an apocryphal text from Jeremiah in which
this Matthew quote appears in its exact form.
Apostles Were Influenced by the Book of Enoch
Dr. R. H. Charles, a scholar of the book, wrote at
the turn of the 20th century that the influence of the Book
of Enoch on the New Testament has been greater than
that of all the other apocryphal books combined. All New
Testament writers were familiar with the work, and their
styles and thinking were influenced by it in some way.
Expressions used by Paul appear in the book. John also
mentions some key expressions, such as: "Lord of lords,
King of kings, the evil angels being punished, the vision of
the seven spirits, the four beasts around the throne, and
the book of life."

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The similarities between Revelation and Enoch
are so great that they almost prevented it from being
considered canonical. In the third century, Dionysius of
Alexandria, along with many other bishops of the churches
of Syria and Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), rejected
Revelation as an authentic work. Acts 10:34 quotes Peter
stating that "God is no respecter of persons," a phrase
also used by Paul and found in the Book of Enoch, as well
as in Deuteronomy, Chronicles, and several passages in
the Old Testament. The Book of Enoch was the origin of
this quote.
Peter's letters can be traced to this book. He
speaks of the imprisonment and descent into hell of the
sinful angels. Greek scholars Rendel Harris and M. R.
James, among other scholars, argue that Peter's first
epistle originally contained an explicit reference to the
book.
Jude quotes Enoch directly and transcribes a
complete passage in verse 14. The term "elect" is very
significant in the Book of Enoch and influenced its usage
among the apostles. The expression “ancient of days” or
“of days”, as it appears in the book of the prophet Daniel,

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is also present in the book of Enoch, as is the expression
“son of man”, which indicates in an absolutely clear way
the influence of this work on the minds and hearts of the
apostles.

Church Fathers Agree with Enoch
Many loved and respected the book. Convinced
that evil angels were active in the world, the early church
fathers frequently cited the book.
Justin Martyr, in his "Second Apology," agrees
with the story told in the book.
Athenagoras, in his work "Legatio," written in 170,
presents Enoch as a true prophet.
Lactantius (260-330) and Tatian (110-171),
Christian apologists, speculated in detail about the
incarnation of fallen angels.
Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon in the third century,
references the story of Enoch.
Tertullian (160-230) was a strong defender of the
book.

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Clement of Alexandria (150-220) speaks of angels
who renounced God's beauty in exchange for the beauty
that fades, falling from heaven to earth.
Origine (186-255), a student of Clement and a
great thinker of his time, repeatedly called Enoch a
prophet and quoted freely from his book.

Rejection of the Book
The church fathers struggled to accept the
viewpoint of the book of Enoch and sought another
explanation to fit Genesis chapter 6. These church
teachers also believed that the prophet Isaiah, in chapter
14:12-15, is describing the fall of an archangel and his
allies. This fall was due to his pride; he wanted to be equal
to God.
Many did not understand that there was more than
one fall of angels.
To avoid the idea that angels had materialized
and had sexual contact with human women, they followed
the line of reasoning of a church teacher, Julius Africanus,
who accepted the term "sons of God" as a reference to
the sons of Seth who had taken the daughters of Cain as

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wives. In the fourth century, Ephraem, a Syrian
ecclesiastical authority, also followed this idea. Jerome
(348-420), a doctor of the church and Hebrew scholar,
classified Enoch's work as apocryphal and declared its
teachings to be the same as those of Manichaeism.

Manichaeism, a competing religion with the
church, was founded in 240 by the prophet Mani, who
declared himself an apostle of Jesus. He preached a
synthesis (Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity).
Chrysostom (346-407) concluded that accepting the "sons
of God" in Genesis 6 as angels is an absurd idea. Saint
Augustine (354-430) similarly rejected the idea that angels
could ever have assumed a body and had relations with
women, even though he affirmed that there are cases in
the Bible where angels appear to men in bodies that could
not only be seen but also touched. All these great sages
were wrong, because these "angelic aliens" did indeed
materialize.
Rabbi Simeon Ben Yohai placed a curse on those
who believed they were angels, "the sons of God," from
Genesis 6. This curse, issued in the second century AD,

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turned the Jewish world against the Book of Enoch.
Because he was aware of this issue, Origen (third century)
claimed this to be the main reason the book was no longer
accepted by the Jews.
Some passages from this book that bear
similarities to those in the Bible:
Enoch - "...and judgment will be for all, even for
the righteous." Enoch 1:6;
Bible - "For the time has come for judgment to
begin at the house of God..." 1 Peter 4:17;

Enoch - "The elect will possess light, joy, and
peace, and will inherit the earth." Enoch 6:9;

Bible - “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit
the earth.” Matthew 5:5;

Enoch - “When the sons of man multiplied in those
days, daughters were born to them, graceful and beautiful.
And when the angels, the sons of heaven, saw them, they
fell in love with them, saying to one another, ‘Come, let us
choose for ourselves wives from among the offspring of

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men, that we may bear children to them.’ So they took
wives, each man choosing his own... The women gave
birth to giants.” Enoch 7:1-2; 10, 11;
Bible - “And the sons of God saw that the
daughters of men were beautiful, and they took for
themselves wives of all whom they chose. There were
giants in the earth in those days, and also afterward, when
the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and
they bore children to them.” Genesis 6:2, 4;
Enoch - “...They then addressed the Lord, the
King, the Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings...”
Enoch 9:3;
Bible - “...for he is the Lord of lords and the King of
kings...” Rev. 17:4;
Enoch - “Among myriads upon myriads who stood
before him.” Enoch 14:24;
Bible - “Then I looked, and I heard the voice of
many angels around the throne and the living creatures
and the elders; and their number was ten thousand times
ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.” Rev. 5:11;

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Enoch - “Offering sacrifices to demons as to
gods.” Enoch 19:2;
Bible - “But I say that the things which the Gentiles
sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, not to God.” 1
Corinthians 10:20;

Enoch - “And that tree of sweet aroma, whose
odor has nothing carnal, shall not be touched until the time
of the great judgment... It shall be given to the righteous
and humble; the fruit of this tree shall be given to the
elect.” Enoch 24:9;
Bible - “In the midst of its street, on both banks of
the river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding
its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for
the healing of the nations.” Revelation 22:2;

Enoch - “...I have heard from the beginning and
understood the holy things which I proclaim in the
presence of the Lord of spirits.” Enoch 37:1;
Bible - “...Shall we not much longer be subject to
the Father of spirits and not live?” Hebrews 12:9;

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Enoch - “And what will be the resting place of
those who have rejected the Lord of spirits? It would have
been better for them if they had never been born.” Enoch
38:2;
Bible - "But woe to that man by whom the Son of
Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he
had not been born." Matthew 26:24;

Enoch - "Then I will make my chosen one to dwell
among them..." Enoch 45:4;
Bible - "Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my
chosen one...he will bring forth righteousness among the
nations." Isaiah 42:1;

Enoch - "In that day the chosen one will sit on a
throne of glory..." Enoch 45:3;
Bible - "...then he will sit on the throne of his
glory." Matthew 25:31;

Enoch - "...this is the Son of Man, to whom
righteousness belongs, and who will reveal the hidden
treasures." Enoch 46:2;

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Bible - "...for the knowledge of the mystery of
God—Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of
wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2:2;

Enoch - "Then I saw the Ancient of Days sitting on
the throne of his glory, opening the book of life before him,
and all the powers above the heavens stood around and
before him." Enoch 47:3;
Bible - "I kept looking until thrones were set up,
and the Ancient of Days sat... The judgment seat was set,
and the books were opened." Daniel 7:9;10;

Enoch - "...for the day of your salvation is near."
Enoch 50:2;
Bible - "...for your redemption draws near." Luke
21:28;

Enoch - "In the day of sinners, the day will be
shortened." Enoch 79:3;
Bible - "If those days had not been shortened..."
Matthew 24:22;

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Enoch - “Behold, the Lord is coming with ten
thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all,
and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds
which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all
the harsh words which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him.” Enoch 7;
Bible - “Concerning these, Enoch, the seventh
from Adam, prophesied, ‘Behold, the Lord is coming with
ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on
all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds
which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all
the harsh words which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him.’” Jude 14;
2. The Pseudepigrapha. Once again, the sacred
author does not directly quote the pseudepigrapha. But it
is clear that he incorporates certain ideas and phrases
from them, especially those taken from the books of the
Testament of Levi, 1 Enoch, and the Assumption of
Moses. In our verse-by-verse commentary, it will be
demonstrated that it is sometimes impossible to
understand the author's meaning unless there is some
allusion to ideas found in the pseudepigraphal works.

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Examples of this include the "cherubim" (see Rev. 4:6), a
"great sword" (see Rev. 6:3), the "martyrs as a sacrifice to
God" (see Rev. 6:9), the "altar in heaven" (see Rev. 6:9),
the "world to come" that will appear when the number of
martyrs is complete (see Rev. 6:11), the "white robes"
symbolizing spiritual bodies (see Rev. 6:11, etc.), all of
which are ideas borrowed from those ancient books. (See
some borrowings taken directly from the Jewish
pseudepigraphal books in Rev. 2:7 (Testament of Levi
18J.1), 2:17 (Testament of Levi 18:14), 4:1 (1 Enoch
14:15), 4:6 (2 Enoch 3:3 and Testament of Levi 2:7), 6:11
(1 Enoch 47:3,4), 6:12 (Assumption of Moses 10:5), 7:1 (a
general concept from the first book of Enoch), 8:8 (1
Enoch 18:13), 9:1 (1 Enoch 86:1), 9:20 (1 Enoch 99:7),
14:10 (1 Enoch 48:9), 14:14 (1 Enoch 46:1), 17:14 (1
Enoch 9:4), 19:15 (Psalms 17:26, 27), 20:8 (1 Enoch 56:5-
8; 4 Esdras 13:5, 8, 9, 28-35; Ber. 7b, Targum of Jer. on
Num. 11:26), 20:13 (1 Enoch 51:1), 22:2 (1 Enoch 62:3,
5). (Excerpt from Champlin's Verse-by-Verse Bible
Commentary, Book XIII, page 356)

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THE BOOK OF ENOCH
The Book of Enoch is an apocryphal text that is
mentioned in some letters of the New Testament (Jude,
Hebrews, and 2 Peter). Until the creation of the Vulgate,
around the year 400, the first followers of Christ openly
mentioned it in their texts and accepted it as authentic.
After the Vulgate, it fell into disuse. oblivion. However, the
book is very interesting and seems real. The Book of
Enoch has been preserved in only one copy, in its entirety,
in Ethiopic, and for this reason it is also called the Ethiopic
Enoch.
CHAPTER 1
1 The words of the blessings of Enoch, with which
he blessed the elect and the righteous, who must exist in
the times of tribulation, rejecting all iniquity and
worldliness. Enoch, a righteous man, who was with God,
answered and spoke to God while his eyes were open,
and while he saw a holy vision of heaven. This the angels
showed me.

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(True Christians must reject the way of life of the
world, the way they speak, dress, behave, entertain
themselves, etc.)
2 From them I heard all things and understood
what I saw—things that will not take place in this
generation, but in a generation that must take place in the
distant future, for the sake of the elect.
(The Book of Enoch is an apocalyptic book, with
eschatological revelations.)
3 Concerning them I have spoken and conversed
with Him, who will come from His dwelling, the Holy and
Mighty One, the God of the world:
(The coming of God on Mount Sinai for the Final
Judgment)
4 Who will tread upon Mount Sinai; He will appear
with His hosts and will manifest Himself with the strength
of His power from heaven.
5 Everyone will be afraid, and the Watchers will be
terrified.
(Watchers is a term used to designate what we
call angels, spiritual beings who control the order of the
world.)

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6 Great fear and trembling will seize them, even to
the ends of the earth. The heights of the mountains will be
shaken, and the high hills will be brought low, melting like
a honeycomb in the flame of fire. The earth will be
submerged, and everything in it will perish; while judgment
will come upon all, even upon all the righteous:
(This verse is quoted by the apostle Peter in his
universal letter. Planet Earth is reserved for a fiery
destruction. While the earth is destroyed, the Last
Judgment will occur. Even the righteous will undergo
some judgment at that time.)
7 But to them will be given peace: He will preserve
the elect and exercise mercy toward them.
(These righteous must be those who inhabit the
earth during the millennium.)
8 Then all will belong to God, will be happy and
blessed, and the splendor of Divinity will illuminate them.
(Here we see the restoration of all things; those
who overcome will be happy forever.)
Chapter 2
1Behold, He comes with ten thousands of His
saints to execute judgment on sinners and to destroy the

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lawless one, and to rebuke every fleshly and sinful and
worldly thing that has been done and committed against
Him. [2]
([2] Quoted by Jude, vss. 14, 15. The lawless one
is a reference to Christ's return to combat the Antichrist.)
Chapter 3
1 All who are in the heavens know what is
happening there.
2 They know that the heavenly lights do not
change their paths; that each rises and sets regularly,
each in its own time, without transgressing the
commandments they have received. They see the VISION
of the earth, and understand what must happen, from its
beginning to its end.
(It is understood that the heavenly bodies follow
their orbits as God predetermined.)
3 They see that all God's work is invariable in the
time of its appearance. They see summer and winter:
perceiving that the whole earth is full of water; and that the
cloud, the dew, and the rain refresh it.
Chapter 4

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1 They consider and see every tree, how it
appears and then withers, and every leaf, how it then falls,
except for fourteen trees, which are not ephemeral, and
wait for the appearance of new leaves for two or three
winters.
(I don't know which trees the author is referring to,
or whether the reference is to the entire planet or the local
biome.)
Chapter 5
1 Again they consider the days of summer, that
the sun has been upon the earth from the beginning; while
you seek shelter and a shady place because of the
blazing sun; while the earth is scorched with fervent heat,
and you are unable to walk on the earth or on the rocks
because of the heat.
(The earth could not exist if it were not in a
constant orbit around our sun. Life here depends on the
heat and the exact distance from the sun. Closer to the
sun, and we would roast, farther away, and we would be
frozen.)
Chapter 6

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1 They consider how the trees, when they put
forth their green leaves, are covered and bear fruit;
understanding everything, and knowing that He, who lives
forever, does all these things for your sake:
2 That the works from the beginning of every
existing year, that all His works are obedient to Him and
unchanging; just as God has ordained, so all things
happen.
(A reference to the universal laws that govern the
universe, such as physics and chemistry.)
3 They also see how the seas and rivers together
complete their respective operations:
(Various divine laws govern the seas, such as the
cycles of the tides, the currents, and the rivers that ebb
and flow, and their course, among countless rules. God
organized life on the planet.)
4 But you resist impatiently; you do not keep the
commandments of the Lord, but you transgress and
slander His greatness; and cursed are the words in your
polluted mouth against His majesty.
(The name Yahweh appears in the Book of
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who lived well after Enoch. This suggests that it was
written after Moses.)
5 You, withered in heart, peace will not be with
you!
6 Therefore your days will be cursed, and the
years of your life will perish; perpetual execration will be
multiplied, and you will obtain no mercy.
7 In these days you resign your peace to the
eternal curse of all the righteous, and sinners will
perpetually execrate you;
8 They will execrate you with everything that is not
divine.
9 The elect will possess light, joy, and peace; and
they will inherit the earth.
(The Bible teaches the doctrine of the destruction
of the earth, but that after being devastated by fire, it will
be rebuilt, and a new earth will arise in which the sea no
longer exists. This new earth will be inhabited by the
elect.)
10 But you, who are not holy, will be cursed.
11 Then wisdom will be given to the elect, all who
will live, and they will not transgress through impiety or

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pride, but will humble themselves, practicing prudence,
and will not repeat the transgression.

12 They will not condemn all their days, nor will
they die in torment and wrath; but their days will be
fulfilled, and they will grow old in peace; while the years of
their happiness will be multiplied with joy and peace
forever, throughout their entire existence.
(The text indicates that the elect will still die, only
they will die a peaceful death. In the book of Revelation
and in the eschatological doctrine of the Bible, this period
is not in eternity, but in a previous time, called the
Millennium, in which Christ will reign on earth for a
thousand years.)
Chapter 7
1 And it came to pass after the sons of men
multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to
them, elegant and beautiful.
(At this point in the book of Enoch, he begins to
portray in detail the facts narrated in the Bible in the book
of Genesis, chapter six, which explains the existence of
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Flood period. These giants were mutants, the result of a
union between materialized angels and women; they were
hybrid creatures.)
2 And when the angels, the sons of heaven, saw
them, they fell in love with them, saying to one another,
"Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the offspring
of men, and let us beget children."
(The angels are called "Watchers" in the Aramaic
text: J.T. Milik, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4
[Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976], p. 167.)
3 Then their leader Samyaza said to them, "I fear
that perhaps you may be unwilling to carry out this
enterprise;
4 And that I alone will suffer for so grievous a
crime."
5 But they answered him and said, "We have all
sworn;
6 (and they bound themselves by mutual oaths),
that we will not change our intention but carry out our
projected undertaking."
7 Then they all swore together, and all bound
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whole number was two hundred, who descended from
Ardis, which is the top of Mount Armon.
(from Ardis. Or, another translation says "in the
days of Jared": R.H. Charles, ed. and trans., The Book of
Enoch [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893], p. 63).
8 That mountain therefore was called Armon,
because they had sworn upon it, and bound themselves
by mutual oath.
(Mt. Armon, or Mount Hermon, derives its name
from the Hebrew herem, a curse; Charles, p. 63).
9 These are the names of their chiefs: Samyaza,
who was their leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel,
Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, Saraknyal, Asael, Armers,
Batraal, Anane, Zaveb, Samsaveel, Ertael, Turel,
Yomyael, Arazyal. These were the prefects of the two
hundred angels, and the rest were all with them.
(The Aramaic text preserves an earlier list of the
names of these Guardians or Watchers: Semihazah;
Artqoph; Ramtel; Kokabel; Ramel; Daniel; Zeqiel; Baraqel;
Asael; Hermoni; Matarel; Ananel; Stawel; Samsiel;
Sahriel; Tummiel; Turiel; Yomiel; Yhaddiel (Milik, p. 151).

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10 Then they took wives, each man choosing for
himself; and with them they began to approach, and with
whom they cohabited, teaching them sorceries,
enchantments, and the splitting of roots and trees.
(These "aliens" took human form, married women,
and began to teach the women magic and sorcery. As
everyone knows, witches often use many herbs in their
spells, because even today unclean spirits influence
humanity to practice magic.)
11 And the women conceived and bore giants,
The Greek text varies considerably from the
Ethiopic here. One Greek manuscript adds to this section,
"And they [the women] bore to them [the Watchers] three
races: the great giants. The giants brought forth [some say
"killed"] the Naphelim, and the Naphelim brought forth [or
"killed"] the Elioud. And they survived, growing in power
according to their greatness." See the record in the Book
of Jubilees.

12 Whose stature was three hundred cubits. They
devoured everything that men had labored to produce,
and it became impossible to feed them.

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13 Then they turned against men to devour them.

14 And they began to injure birds, animals,
reptiles, and fish, to eat their flesh one after another, (8)
and to drink their blood.
(Their flesh one after another. Or, "of other flesh."
R.H. Charles notes that this phrase may refer to the
destruction of one class of giants by another. Charles, p.
65.)

15 Then the earth reproved the wicked.

Chapter 8
1 Furthermore, Azazyel taught men to make
swords, knives, shields, armor (or breastplates), the
making of mirrors and bracelets, the use of paint, the
beautification of eyebrows, the use of every selected kind
of precious stones, and all kinds of dyes, so that the world
would be changed.
(Considering these true facts, we see that the
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technologies, and women's adornments so that they could
seduce rather than dress. Makeup is indeed an instrument
of seduction; this does not come from God. Only those
who do not want to understand do not understand.)
2 Wickedness increased, fornication multiplied;
and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways.
(Dishonesty and sexual impurity are clear
evidence that a society is under the strong influence of the
evil one.) 3 Amazarak taught all the sorceries and root-
dividers:
(As I said, herbs are very common tools in the
hands of witches, dating back to the days before the
flood).
4 Armers taught the solution of sorceries;
5 Barkayal taught the stargazers, the Stargazers.
(Astrologers; Charles, p. 67).
6 Akibeel taught signs;
7 Tamiel taught astronomy;
(Interestingly, these "alien" spirits, since they
came from outside planet Earth, also taught about the
influence of cosmic rays and other astronomical topics.)
8 And Asaradel taught the movement of the moon,

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9 And men, being destroyed, cried out, and their
voices rent the heavens.
Chapter 9
1 Then Michael and Gabriel, Radhael, Suryaal,
and Uriel, looked down from heaven and saw the
abundance of bloodshed on the earth and all the iniquity
committed upon it. They said to one another, "This is the
voice of their cries;
2 The earth, deprived of her children, has cried
out, even to the gates of heaven.
3 And now to you, O Holy One of heaven, the
souls of men complain, saying, 'Obtain justice for us with
the Most High.' Then they said to their YHWH, the King:
You are YHWH of YHWHs, God of gods, King of kings.
The throne of Your glory is forever and ever, and forever
be Your name hallowed and glorified. (Obtain justice for
us. Literally, "Bring judgment for us from..." Richard
Laurence, ed. and trans., The Book of Enok the Prophet
[London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883], p. 9).
4 You made all things; You possess power over
all things; and all things are open and manifest before
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5 You saw what Azazyel has done, how he has
taught every kind of iniquity on earth, and has revealed to
the world all the secret things that are done in the
heavens.
6 Samyaza also has taught sorceries, to whom
You gave authority over those who are associated with
You. They have gone in with the daughters of men, have
lain with them; they have defiled themselves;
7 And they have uncovered their crimes.
(Crimes Uncovered. Or, "These Signs Revealed,"
Charles, p. 70).
8 Women have also borne giants.
9 Thus the whole earth has been filled with blood
and iniquity.
10 And now you see the souls of those who are
dead crying out.
(Here we see evidence of the belief in the survival
of the soul after death.)
11 And they complain even to the gate of heaven.
12 Their groans ascend; nor can they escape the
injustice that is done on earth. You knew all things before
they existed.

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13 You know these things, and what has been
done for them; yet You do not speak to us.
14 What, because of these things, should we do
against them?
(The archangels claim not to know what to do, and
ask God to show them what they must do to stop these
two hundred angels who rebelled against God.)
Chapter 10

1Then the Most High, the Great and Holy One
spoke,
2And sent Arsayalalyur to the son of Lamech,
(Arsayalalyur. In the Greek text it reads "Uriel").
3Saying: Tell them in My name: Hide yourself.
4Then He explained to him the consummation that
is about to happen; for the whole earth will perish; the
waters of a flood will come over the whole earth, and all
who are in it will be destroyed.
5And now, teach him how he may escape, and
how his descendants may remain in all the earth.

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6Again the YHWH said to Raphael: Bind Azazyel
hand and foot; throw him into the darkness; and open the
wilderness that is in Dudael, and throw him into it.
(Here we understand the ritual of the goat sent
into the desert, which in the Law of Moses is called
Azaziel. Here we also understand why when Jesus cast
out demons, they begged him not to send them to the
abyss.)

7 Throw sharp stones at him, covering him with
darkness;
8 There he will remain forever; cover his face, so
that he cannot see the light.
9 And on the great day of judgment cast him into
the fire.
(We see that these angels of the second fall are
bound in eternal prisons, as it is written in the Epistle of
Peter, reserved for the Day of Judgment. The apostle
Peter was certainly quoting this verse from the Book of
Enoch literally.)
10 Restore the earth, which the angels corrupted;
and proclaim life to it, so that I may receive it.

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(We see that the reason for the flood was not the
sin of men, but the fall of this group of angels who
genetically corrupted humans.)
11 All the children of men, their offspring, will not
perish as a result of all the secret by which the Watchers
have destroyed, and what they taught;
12 The whole earth has been corrupted by the
effects of Azazyel's teachings. Therefore, every crime is
attributed to him.

13 To Gabriel also the Lord said: Go to the
bastards, (13) to the reprobate, the children of fornication;
and destroy the children of fornication, the offspring of the
Watchers, from among men; bring them and incite them
against each other. Make them perish by mutual
slaughter; for length of days will not be theirs.
("bastards"; Charles, p. 73; Michael A. Knibb, ed.
and trans., The Ethiopic Book of Enoch [Oxfo rd:
Clarendon Press, 1978], p. 88). God sent Gabriel to
instigate the giants, the children of the angels, to fight
among themselves, causing their own extinction. Our
civilization is constantly influenced by angels or demons.

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What we experience here on Earth is a game. We are not
masters of our destiny. God has the power to prevent evil,
but He doesn't. He plays along, pushing the situation until
His ultimate purposes are fulfilled. Not even the angels
can understand the mind of God, and we don't have to
understand it; we, as slaves, are only responsible for
obedience.
14 They will pray to you, but their fathers will not
obtain their wishes concerning them; for they hoped for
eternal life, that they might each live five hundred years.
15 To Michael, the Lord also said: Go and reveal
their own crimes to Samyaza and to the others who are
with him, who have associated with women so that they
defile themselves with all their impurity. And when all their
children are dead, when they see the destruction of their
beloved, bind them for seventy generations under the
earth, even until the day of judgment and consummation,
until the judgment, whose effect, which lasts forever, is
completed.
(Again we see that Satan and the demons, and
now the group of Azazyel and Samyaza, have associated
with women to bring misfortune on Earth. The female

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gender is largely to blame for the misfortunes of the
planet. They may accuse us of sexism, but that is what is
written in the Sexist Bible.)
16 Then they will be taken to the lowest depths of
the fire in torment; there they will be shut up in
confinement forever.
(From the beginning it was known that the center
of the earth, in the depths of the planet, is a fire continually
burning.)
17 Immediately after this, he, along with the
others, will burn and perish; they will be bound until the
end of many generations.
(He. I.e., Samyaza).
18 Destroy all souls addicted to lust, (15) and the
offspring of the Watchers, for they tyrannize over
humanity.
("Lust," Knibb, p. 90; cf. Charles, p. 76).
19 Let every oppressor perish from the face of the
earth;
20 Let every evil work be destroyed;
21 Let the seed of justice and righteousness
appear, and what is productive become a blessing.

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22 Justice and righteousness will be planted
forever with pleasure.
23 And then all the saints will give thanks, and live
until they have fathered thousands of children, while all
the period of their youth, and their Sabbaths, will be
completed in peace. In those days the whole earth will be
cultivated in righteousness; it will be fully cultivated with
trees, and will be full of blessings; every tree of delight will
be planted in it.
24 Vineyards will be planted; and the vineyard that
is planted in it will produce enough fruit; every seed that is
sown in it will produce a thousand by a measure; and a
measure of olives will produce ten presses of oil.
25 Cleanse the earth of all oppression, of all
injustice, of all crime, of all wickedness, and of all impurity
that is committed upon it. Exterminate them from the
earth.
(God has reserved a glorious future for planet
Earth; after the Last Judgment, humanity will live in peace
in the new world, but the promise for the church is eternal
life in heaven.)

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26 Then all the children of men will be righteous,
and all nations will pay me divine honor and bless me; and
all will worship me.
27 The earth will be cleansed of all corruption, of
all punishment, and of all suffering; I will never again send
a flood upon it, from generation to generation forever.
28 In those days I will open the treasures of
blessings in heaven, so that I may bring them down upon
the earth, and upon all the works and labors of man.
29 Peace and equity will be with the children of
men all the days of the world, in every generation.
Chapter 11
(not)
Chapter 12
1 Before all these things happened, Enoch was
hidden; and none of the children of men knew where he
was, where he had been, or what had happened.
2 He was fully engaged with the saints, and with
the Watchers in his days.
3 I, Enoch, have been blessed by the great YHWH
and King of peace.

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4 And behold, the Watchers called me Enoch the
scribe.

5 Then the Lord said to me: Enoch, scribe of
righteousness, go and tell the Watchers of the heavens,
who have deserted the high heavens and their holy and
eternal estate, and who have defiled themselves with
women.
(The name Yahweh was only revealed to Moses,
but we see that in the book of Genesis, from the first
chapters, God is already called by this name in the
Hebrew texts. This raises doubts about the date of the
book of Enoch, suggesting that it was written not in the
days of Noah, but after Moses. It may be that its history
was an oral tradition, written down many centuries later to
perpetuate it to our day.)
6 And they did as the sons of men do, taking
wives for themselves, and they have been greatly
corrupted on the earth;

7 That on earth they will never obtain peace and
remission of sins. For they will not rejoice in their offspring;

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they will see the slaughter of their loved ones; they will
mourn over the destruction of their children and will make
supplication forever; but they will not obtain mercy and
peace.
(The quotation in 2 Peter 2:4: "For if God did not
spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell
and delivered them to chains of darkness, to be reserved
for judgment," is a reference to this passage from the
Book of Enoch.)
Chapter 13
1 Then Enoch, passing by, said to Azazyel, "You
will not obtain peace. A great sentence is against you. He
will bind you;
2 Help, mercy, and supplication will not be with
you because of the oppression you have taught;
3 And because of all the blasphemy, tyranny, and
sin you have revealed to the sons of men.

4 Then I went away and spoke to them all
together.
5 And they were all terrified and trembled.

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(This passage is similar to the story contained in
the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian tale that tells
of beings from the stars who descended and had
intercourse with women, and that the god Anu, when he
destroyed the earth with a flood, would not forgive them
for abandoning their posts. Therefore, the biblical story of
the Nephilim, the story told in the Book of Enoch, and the
ancient Sumerian tale are all consistent and coincidental
about ancient events that occurred during the flood
period.)
6 Blessing me for writing for them a memorial of
supplication, that they might obtain forgiveness; and that I
would make a memorial of their prayers ascending before
the God of heaven; for they, of themselves, from that time
onward, could not address Him nor raise their eyes to
heaven because of the infamous offense with which they
were judged. 7 Then I wrote a memorial of their prayers
and supplications, for their spirits, for all they had done,
and for the matter of their petition, that they might obtain
remission and rest.

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8 Proceeding in this, I continued on the waters of
Danbadan, which are on the right side of Armon, reading
the memorial of their prayers, until I fell asleep.
(Danbadan. Dan in Dan Knibb, p. 94).
9 And behold, a dream came to me, and visions
appeared above me. And I fell and saw a vision of
punishments, so that I might report it to the sons of
heaven, and reprove them. When I awoke, I went to them.
All were gathered together weeping in Oubelseyael, which
is situated between Lebanon and Seneser, (17) with their
faces hidden.
(Lebanons and Seneser. Lebanon and Senir; near
Damascus).
10 And I related in his presence all the visions I
had seen, and my dream; 11 And I began to speak these
words of righteousness, rebuking the Watchers of heaven.
(This entire chapter is very similar to the Sumerian
tale of Gilgamesh; I recommend reading this other book to
complement this understanding.)
Chapter 14
1 This is the book of the words of righteousness,
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according to what He, who is holy and great, commanded
in the vision. I perceived in my dream that I was then
speaking with the tongue of the flesh, and with my breath,
which the Mighty One put in the mouths of men, so that
they could converse with Him.
(Who belong to the world. Or, "who (are) from
eternity"; Knibb, p. 95.)
2 I understood with my heart. Just as He had
created and given men the power to understand the word
of understanding, so He created and gave me the power
to reprove the Watchers, the offspring of heaven. And I
wrote their petition; and in my vision it was shown to me
that their request would not be granted to them as long as
the world endures.
(While the world endures, it should not be
understood that later in the new heaven and new earth,
they will be forgiven. The entire context in this book and in
the Bible indicates that there will be no forgiveness
forever.)
3 Judgment has passed over you; your request
will not be granted.

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4 From now on, you will never ascend to heaven;
He has said that He will bind you on earth as long as the
world exists.
(These angels are bound in the abyss that is deep
within the earth. At the Last Judgment, these angels will
be transferred from the abyss to Gehenna, along with
Satan and his demons and the humans who lived in
rebellion against God.)
5 But before these things, you will see the
destruction of your beloved children; you will not possess
them, but they will fall before you by the sword.
6 You will neither pray for them nor for yourselves;
7 But you will weep and plead in silence. The
words of the book that I have written.(19)
(But you will weep… I wrote. Or, "So also, despite
your tears and prayers, you will receive nothing of all that
is contained in the records I have written"; Charles, p. 80).
8 A vision then appeared to me.
9 Behold, in that vision, clouds and mist invited
me; stirring stars and flashes of lightning propelled and
pressed me forward, while winds in the vision assisted my
flight, hastening my progress.

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(Lights, mist, even a feeling of wind are
perceptions that people have when they are in the spirit. I
once had a major experience in which I left my body and
was gone for more than an hour—a thing only those who
have experienced it know.)
10 They lifted me high into the sky. I continued
until I came near a wall built of crystal stones. A vibrant
flame of fire surrounded it, which began to strike me with
terror.

(A vibrant flame of fire. Literally, "a tongue of fire").
11 Into this vibrant flame of fire I entered;
12 And I approached a spacious dwelling, also
built of crystal stones. Its walls, as well as its pavement,
were made of crystal stones, and the floor was also of
crystal. Its roof had the appearance of moving stars and
flashes of lightning; and between them were fiery
cherubim in a stormy sky. A flame burned around the
walls; and its portal burned with fire. When I entered this
dwelling, it was hot as fire and cold as ice. No trace of
charm or life was there. Terror overcame me, and a
trembling of fear seized me.

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(Into a stormy sky. Literally, "and its sky was
water" Charles, p. 81).
13 Violently shaken and trembling, I fell on my
face. In the vision I looked.
14 And I saw another dwelling there, more
spacious than the first, every entrance of which was open
before me, elevated in the midst of vibrating flame.
15 It surpassed it in every respect in glory, in
magnificence, in magnitude, that it is impossible to
describe to you its splendor or extent.
16 Its floors were of fire, above were flashes of
lightning and stars flashing, while the roof displayed a
blazing fire.
17 I examined it closely and saw that it contained
an exalted throne;
18 Its appearance was like frost, while its
circumference resembled the orbit of the shining sun; and
there was the voice of a cherub.
19 From beneath this mighty throne issued rivers
of flaming fire.
20 It was impossible to look at it.
21 One great in glory sat upon it,

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22 Whose robe was brighter than the sun and
whiter than snow. 23 No angel could penetrate to look
upon His face, the Glorious and Resplendent One; nor
could any mortal see Him. A flaming fire surrounded Him.
24 A fire of great extent continued to rise before
Him, so that none of those who were around Him could
approach Him, among the myriads of myriads who stood
before Him. For Him, holy consultation was unnecessary.
Yet the Holy One, who was near Him, did not depart from
Him night or day; nor were they removed from His
presence. I also was so far ahead, with a veil over my
face, and trembling. Then the Lord called to me with His
own mouth, saying, "Come near here, Enoch, to my holy
word."
(Myriads of myriads. Ten thousand times ten
thousand; Knibb, p. 99).
25 And He lifted me up, and brought me near,
even to the entrance. My eyes were fixed on the ground.
(This chapter almost entirely describes Enoch's
visit to the heavenly city, which is called the New
Jerusalem in Revelation. Enoch's experience is also very
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chapters 1 and 4. The heavenly city is described with
walls, gates, and a river, just as it is described in
Revelation 21 and 22.)
Chapter 15

1 Then He turned to me and said, "Hear, do not
be afraid, righteous Enoch, you scribe of righteousness:
draw near here and listen to My voice. Go, tell the
Watchers of heaven, whom I have sent you to pray for
them; You must pray for men, not men for you.
(God is the Lord of all; he is at the top, but he
created the hierarchy, a system in which those of lower
rank or nature must obey higher beings. In contrast,
beings superior in the universal hierarchy must intercede
for inferior beings. In this order, angels are superior to
men, and therefore angels must pray for men, not vice
versa. However, all prayers must be directed only to God
and not to other entities, as Catholics do when praying to
the saints; this is paganism.)
2 Therefore, you must abandon the sublime and
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women; you have committed fornication with the
daughters of men; you have taken wives; you have acted
like the sons of the earth, and have begotten an unholy
offspring.
(An unholy offspring. Literally, "giants" according
to Charles, p. 82; Knibb, p. 101).
3 You are spiritual, holy, and possessors of a life
that is eternal; you defiled yourselves with women, you
procreated in carnal blood; you lusted after the blood of
men; and you did as those who are flesh and blood do.
(These heavenly beings sinned because they had
sexual relations with women, creating a transgenic race.
We constantly see stories of women being abducted by
"aliens" and being sexually abused. This indicates that
some rebellious angels continue to defy God and have
sexual relations with women.)
4 These, however, die and perish.
5 Therefore, from now on I give you wives, that
you may cohabit with them and have children born to
them; and this may be transacted on earth.

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6 But from the beginning you were made spiritual,
possessing a life that is eternal, and not subject to death
forever.
7 Therefore I did not make wives for you,
because, being spiritual, your home is in heaven,
(Angels do not reproduce sexually, nor should
they unite with another angel).
8 Now the giants, who are born of spirit and flesh,
will be called evil spirits on the earth, and their dwelling
will be on the earth. Evil spirits will proceed from their
flesh, for they were created from above, from the holy
ones. Watchers were their beginning and their first
foundation. They will be evil spirits on the earth, and they
will be called spirits of wickedness. The dwelling of the
spirits of heaven will be in heaven, but on the earth will be
the dwelling of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth.
(Note the many implications of verses 3 -8
regarding the offspring of evil spirits. This text suggests
that the children of the angels became demons. The
angels who sinned are bound, but their children are
disembodied and live tormenting the earth.)

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9 The spirits of the giants will be like clouds, which
oppress, corrupt, fall, contend, and confuse on the earth.
(The Greek word for "cloud" here, nephelas, may
conceal the older reading, Napheleim [Nephilim].)
10 They will cause lamentation. They will eat no
food; they will thirst; they will hide themselves and will not
rise up against the sons of men and against women; for
they will come during the days of slaughter and
destruction.
No. Almost all manuscripts contain this negative,
but Charles, Knibb, and others believe the "not" should be
deleted so that the phrase reads "shall rise up."
Chapter 16
1 And as for the death of the giants, wherever
their spirits depart from their bodies; let their flesh, which
is perishable, be without judgment. Thus they will perish,
until the day of the great consummation of the world. A
destruction of the Watchers and the wicked will take place.
(Let their flesh… be without judgment. Or, "their
flesh will be destroyed before the judgment" [Knibb, p.
102]).

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2 And then to the Watchers, whom I sent you to
pray for them, who were in heaven in the beginning,
3 Say: You have been in heaven; secret things,
however, have not been revealed to you; yet you have
known a reprehensible mystery.
4 And you have reported this to women in the
hardness of your hearts, and by that mystery women and
mankind have multiplied evils on the earth.
5 Say to them: Therefore, you will never obtain
peace.
Chapter 17
1 They took me to a certain place, where there
was (28) the appearance of a boiling fire; and when they
pleased themselves, they took the likeness of men.
(Where there was. Or, "where they [the angels]
were in the likeness." Knibb, p. 103.)
2 They took me to a high place, to a mountain, the
top of which reached to heaven.
(Several mountains in the world reach to heaven.
This means that the top is occasionally covered with
clouds.)

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3 And I saw the receptacles of light and thunder at
the ends of the place, where it was deep. There was a
bow of fire, and arrows in its vibrating, a sword of fire, and
all kinds of lightning.
4 Then they brought me to a babbling brook, (29)
and to a fire in the west, which received every sunset. I
came to a river of fire, which flowed like water, and
emptied into the great sea to the west.
(To a babbling brook. Literally, "to the water of life,
which speaks." Laurence, p. 23.)
5 I saw every broad river, until I came to the great
darkness. I went to where all flesh migrates; and I saw the
mountains of darkness which constitute winter, and the
place from which water flows into every abyss.
6 I also saw the mouths of all the rivers in the
world, and the mouths of the deep.
(It cannot be understood literally, because there is
no single source of water for the world's rivers.)
Chapter 18
1 Then I examined the receptacles of all the
winds, realizing that they contribute to adorning all
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(There is also no receptacle for all the winds,
unless they are specific places of divine creation in the
spiritual world.)
2 I examined the stone that supports the corners
of the earth.
(There is also no stone that supports the corners
of the earth, because the earth is round and has no
corners. Perhaps texts like these helped sustain the myth
of the flat earth. It is no wonder that the Book of Enoch
was not considered canonical.)
3 I also saw the four winds, which support the
earth, and the expanse of the sky.
4 And I saw the winds occupying the exalted sky,
5 Arising in the midst of heaven and earth, and
constituting the pillars of heaven.
6 I saw the winds that revolve in the sky, which
cause and determine the orbit of the sun and all the stars;
and on the earth I saw the winds that hold the clouds.
(Winds do not determine the orbit of the sun.
Rough texts on knowledge of geography, physics, and
astronomy. Unless they are figuratively speaking.)
7 I saw the path of the angels.

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8 I perceived at the end of the earth the firmament
of the sky above it. Then I passed toward the south,
9 Where six mountains formed of glorious stones
burn both day and night, three toward the east, and three
toward the south.
10 Those toward the east were of multicolored
stone, one of which was margarite, and the other of
antimony. Those toward the south were of a red stone.
The middle one approached heaven like the throne of
God—a throne composed of alabaster, the top of which
was sapphire. I also saw a flaming fire suspended over all
the mountains.
(Often people have experiences in the spiritual
world, and their visions are so real that they believe the
physical world is exactly as they see it. I do not doubt
these and other visions. But in the spiritual world, things
are not always what they seem.)
11 And there I saw a place across a vast territory,
where waters were collected.
12 I also saw earthly springs, deep in flaming
columns from the sky.

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13 And in the columns of the sky I saw fires
descending without number, neither from above nor from
below. Above these springs I also perceived a place
where there was neither the firmament of the sky above
nor the solid ground beneath; nor was there any water
above; nor was there any wind; but the place was
desolate.
(A desolate place is a reference to emptiness. The
above text suggests a concept from the ancient world in
popular imagination.)
14 And there I saw seven stars, like great
mountains, and like spirits pleading with me.
15 Then the angel said, "This place, until the
consummation of heaven and earth, will be the prison of
the stars, and of the host of heaven."
(Tartarus, or the abyss, is the prison of the fallen
angels.)

16 The stars that roll over fire are those who
transgressed God's commandment before their time
came; for they did not come in their proper season.
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until the time of the consummation of their crimes in the
secret year.

(Secret year is a reference to the time God has
set for the Last Judgment.)

Chapter 19
1 Then Uriel said, "Behold, the angels who
cohabited with women chose their leaders;
2 And being numerous in appearance (30), they
defiled men and caused them to err; thus they sacrificed
to demons as to gods. For on the great day there will be a
judgment, in which they will be judged, until they are
consumed; and their wives will also be judged, who led
the angels of heaven astray to greet them.
They sacrificed to the devil as to the gods. I think
the author meant that they sacrificed to the demons who
had already fallen with Lucifer with the same intensity as
they had previously sacrificed to the triunity of God, who in
the Old Testament is called Elohim.
(Being numerous in appearance. Or, "assuming
many forms" (Knibb, p. 106).

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3 And I, Enoch, only saw the appearance of the
end of all things. Having seen no man while I saw things.
Chapter 20

1 These are the names of the Watcher angels:
2 Uriel, one of the holy angels, who presides over
clamor and terror.
3 Raphael, one of the holy angels, who presides
over the spirits of men.
4 Raguel, one of the holy angels, who inflicts
punishment on the world and the luminaries.
(I advocate a hypothesis that the universe is
teeming with life and various forms of life, unimaginable.
Planets, comets, stars, and constellations are living
beings, something like the Gaia Theory that the Earth is
indeed a living being. This angel (Raguel) would be a
president of the stars.
5 Michael, one of the holy angels, who, presiding
over human virtue, commands actions.
6 Sarakiel, one of the holy angels, who presides
over the spirits of the children of men who transgress.

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7 Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who presides
over Ikisat, over paradise, and over the cherubim.
(31) Ikisat. The Serpents (Charles, p. 92; Knibb, p.
107).
Chapter 21
1 Then I made a circuit to a place where nothing
was complete.
2 And there I saw neither the tremendous works of
an exalted heaven nor of an established earth, but a
desolate, prepared, and terrible place.
3 There I also saw seven stars of heaven bound
together, like great mountains, and like boiling fire. I
exclaimed, "For what crime have they been bound, and
why have they been removed from their place?" Then
Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me and who
led me, answered, "Enoch, why do you ask? Why do you
reason with yourself and anxiously inquire? These are
those stars that transgressed the commandment of the
most high God; and they are bound here, until the infinite
number of the days of their crimes is completed." (Are
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4 From there I passed on to another terrible place;
5 Where I saw the operation of a great, flaming,
and resplendent fire, in the midst of which was a division.
Pillars of fire striving together toward the end of the abyss,
and deep was their descent. But their measure and
magnitude I was unable to discover, nor could I perceive
their source. Then I exclaimed, "How terrible is this place,
and how difficult to explore it!"
6 Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me,
answered and said: Enoch, why are you alarmed and
amazed at this terrible place, at the sight of this place of
suffering? This, he said, is the prison of the angels; and
here they will be kept forever.
(This place appears to be Tartarus, or the abyss—
the eternal prison of the fallen angels; at the Last
Judgment, Tartarus itself will be thrown into the Lake of
Fire, or Gehenna.) Chapter 22
1 From there I went to another place, where I saw
to the west a great and lofty mountain, a strong rock, and
four pleasant places.
2 Within it was deep, spacious, and level; it was
deep and dark to look at.

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3 Then Raphael, one of the holy angels who was
with me, answered and said: These are the pleasant
places where the spirits, the souls of the dead, will be
gathered; for them it was formed, and here all the souls of
the sons of men will be gathered.
(This description seems to be of the upper Sheol,
which in biblical theology is the resting place of the souls
of the saved dead until the resurrection of Christ, after
which they were transferred to the heavenly paradise.)
4 These places, in which they dwell, they will
occupy until the day of judgment, and until their chosen
period.
(The dead have undergone a judgment.)
5 Their chosen period will be long, even until the
great judgment. And I saw the spirits of the sons of men
who are dead; and their voices break through the sky as
they are accused.
(Here we see the souls of the dead who died
without salvation.)
6 Then I inquired of Raphael, the angel who was
with me, and said, "What spirit is this, whose voice
reaches to heaven and accuses?"

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7 He answered, saying, "This is the spirit of Abel,
who was slain by his brother Cain; who will accuse that
brother until his descendants are destroyed from the face
of the earth.
(The biblical writer of the book of Hebrews refers
to this text from the book of Enoch: "By faith Abel offered
to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of
his gifts; and by it he, being dead, still speaks." [Hebrews
11:4])
8 Until his descendants disappear from the seed
of the human race.
9 At that time therefore I inquired about him, and
about the general judgment, saying, "Why is one
separated or the other? He replied: Three separations
were made among the spirits of the dead, and thus the
spirits of the righteous were separated,
(Here we see a description of what Christian
theology emphasizes: that there is an upper sheol and a
lower sheol. In the upper sheol are the souls of the saved,
in the lower sheol are the souls of the damned.)

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10 Namely, by a cleft in the earth, by water, and
by light above it.
11 And in the same way sinners are separated
when they die, and are buried in the earth; judgment will
not overtake them in their lifetime.
12 Here their souls are separated. Moreover, their
suffering is abundant until the time of the great judgment,
the punishment and torment of those who eternally
execrated, whose souls are equipped and bound there
forever.
(The Book of Enoch supports Christian theology
that the souls of the damned are already suffering until the
Day of Judgment.)

13 And so it has been since the beginning of the
world. Thus there is a separation between the souls of
those who utter complaints and those who watch for their
destruction, for their slaughter on the day of sinners.
14 Such a receptacle has been formed for the
souls of the unrighteous and sinners, of those who have
committed crime and associated with the wicked, with
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annihilated on that day of judgment, nor will they rise from
this place. Then I blessed God,
(The doctrine of annihilation advocated by
Jehovah's Witnesses has no support in either the Bible or
the Book of Enoch.)
15 And I said: Blessed be my YHWH, the YHWH
of glory and righteousness, whose kingdom will last
forever and ever.
Chapter 23
1 From there I went to another place, toward the
west, to the ends of the earth,
2 Where I saw a blazing fire running along without
ceasing, with a course not intermittent, neither day nor
night; but always the same, continually.
3 I inquired, saying, "What is this, that never
ceases?"
4 Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was
with me, answered,
5 And said: This flaming fire that you see running
toward the west is that of all the luminaries of the sky.
(The description that the stars are celestial bodies
that are emitting fire is consistent with our scientific

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knowledge today. We know that the sun and stars are in
constant eruption.)
Chapter 24
1 I went from there to another place, and saw a
mountain of fire that shines both day and night. I went
toward it and noticed seven splendid mountains, each of
which was different from the other.
2 Its stones were bright and beautiful; all were
bright and splendid to the eye, and their surface was
beautiful. Three mountains were toward the east,
established and strengthened by being placed one upon
the other; three were toward the south, similarly
established. Three were likewise deep valleys, which did
not approach one another. The seventh mountain was in
the midst of them. In length they all resembled the seat of
a throne, and fragrant trees surrounded them.
3 Among these was a tree of unceasing fragrance;
none of the trees in Eden had a fragrance like it. Its leaves
and its blossoms never withered, and its fruit was
beautiful.
4 Its fruit resembled the clusters of a palm tree. I
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leaves are pleasant, and the appearance of its fruit is
delightful to the eye." Then Michael, one of the holy angels
who was with me, and one of those who presided over
them, answered,
5 And said, "Enoch, why do you inquire about the
odor of this tree?"
6 Why are you inquiring to know it?"
7 Then I, Enoch, answered him, and said,
"Concerning everything I am desirous of instruction, but
especially concerning this tree."
8 He answered me, saying, "The mountain which
you see, the extension of which resembles the seat of the
Lord, will be the seat on which the Holy and great Lord of
glory, the eternal King, will sit when He comes and
descends to visit the earth with goodness.
9 And that tree is of pleasant aroma, not of carnal
odor; there no one will have power to touch it until the time
of the great judgment, when all will be punished and
consumed forever; this will be conferred on the righteous
and humble. The fruit of the tree will be given to the elect.
For toward the north, life will be planted in the holy place,
toward the dwelling of the eternal King.

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10 Then they will greatly rejoice and be glad in the
Holy One. A sweet aroma will enter their bones; and they
will live a long life in the land like their ancestors; in their
days there will be no sorrow, no anguish, no trouble, no
punishment will afflict them.
11 And I blessed the LORD of glory, the eternal
King, because he prepared this tree for the holy ones,
formed it, and declared that he would give it to them.
(The entire description in this chapter seems to
refer to the tree of life.)

Chapter 25

1 From there I went to the middle of the land and
saw a happy and fertile place, which contained branches
continually spreading from the trees that were planted
there. There I saw a holy mountain, and beneath it the
water from behind flowed toward the south. I saw in the
east another mountain as high as that; and between them
was a deep but not wide valley.

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2 Water flowed toward the mountain to the west of
it; and beneath it was likewise another mountain.
3 There was a valley, but not a wide valley, below;
and in the middle of them was another deep and dry valley
toward the end of the tree. All these valleys, which were
deep but not sloping, consisted of a strong rock, with the
tree that was planted in it. And I marveled at the rock and
the valley, being greatly astonished.
(A likely reference to the river of the water of life.
We can see many parallels with Revelation in the book of
Enoch.)
Chapter 26
1 Then I said, "What does this blessed land mean,
and all these tall trees, and the cursed valley between
them?"
2 Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with
me, answered, "This valley is the cursed of the cursed
forever. Here will be gathered all who have spoken with
their mouths unbecomingly against God and spoken
harshly of His glory. Here they will be gathered. Here will
be their territory.
(This valley is hell.)

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3 In the last days an example of judgment will be
made in righteousness before the saints, while those who
have received mercy will forever and ever bless God, the
eternal God.
4 And in the time of judgment they will bless Him
for His mercy, as He has distributed it to them. Then I
blessed God, addressing Him, and making mention, as
was recognized, of His greatness.
Chapter 27
1 From there I went eastward to the middle of the
mountain in the desert, of which I perceived only the
surface level.
2 It was full of trees of the seed alluded to; and
water gushed over it.
3 There appeared a cataract composed of many
waterfalls facing both east and west. On one side were
trees; on the other water and dew.
Chapter 28
1 Then I went to another part of the desert, toward
the east of that mountain I had approached.

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2 There I saw choice trees, particularly those that
yield the sweet-smelling opium, frankincense, and myrrh;
and trees different from one another.
(Choice trees. Literally "trees of judgment";
Laurence, p. 35; Knibb, p. 117).
3 And above them was the elevation of the
western mountain, not far away.
Chapter 29
1 Likewise I saw another place with valleys of
water that never ceases,
2 Where I noticed a pleasant tree, whose scent
resembles Zasakinon.
(Zasakinon. The Mastic Tree; Knibb, p. 118).
3 Toward the valley I noticed the sweet-smelling
cinnamon tree. Above them I advanced toward the east.
Chapter 30

1 Then I saw another mountain with trees, from
which water flowed like Neketro. Their names were Sarira
and Kalboneba. And above this mountain I saw another
mountain, on which were Alva trees.

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(Neketro. The Nectar according to Knibb, p. 119.
Sarira and Kalboneba. Styrax and Galbanium according to
Knibb, p. 119). Alva would be Aloe according to Knibb, p.
119). 2 These trees were as full as almond trees, and
strong; and when they bore fruit, they surpassed all the
surrounding land.
Chapter 31
1 After these things, surveying the northern
entrances above the mountains, I saw mountains and
noticed seven mountains full of pure spikenard, fragrant
trees, and papyrus.
2 From there I passed over the peaks of those
mountains some distance to the east, and I went over the
Erythraean Sea. And when I had advanced far beyond it, I
passed along, above the angel Zateel, and came to the
garden of righteousness. In this garden I saw other trees,
which were numerous and large, and flourished there.

(Erythraean Sea. The Red Sea. The Book of
Enoch names the Sinai Peninsula as the site of the
Garden of Eden.)

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3 Its fragrance was pleasant and powerful, and its
appearance was both pleasant and elegant. The tree of
knowledge was also there, from which if anyone ate, he
became endowed with great wisdom.
4 It was like the date palm, bearing fruit like an
extremely fine grape, and its fragrance spread a
considerable distance. I exclaimed, "How beautiful is this
tree, and how delightful is its appearance!"
(Contrary to the current secular tradition that
depicts the fruit of the tree of knowledge as resembling an
apple, here in the Book of Enoch it is said to resemble a
grape.)
5 Then the holy Raphael, an angel who was with
me, answered and said, "This is the tree of knowledge,
from which your ancient father and mother ate, who were
before you and who, having obtained knowledge, had their
eyes opened, and discovered that they were naked, were
driven out of the garden."
Chapter 32
1 From there I went toward the ends of the earth,
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birds varied in appearance and shape, as well as with
different notes of sound.
2 To the right of these beasts I perceived the ends
of the earth, where the heavens cease. The gates of
heaven were open, and I saw the heavenly stars coming. I
numbered them as they proceeded from the gate and
wrote them all down as they came out one by one,
according to their number. I wrote their names in full, their
times and seasons, while the angel Uriel, who was with
me, showed them to me.
(This astronomical description is completely
without credit. It was believed that the sky ended touching
the corners of the earth, a gate through which the stars
passed... It is hypothesized that the original book
underwent several alterations or that oral tradition was
incorporated to reinforce ancient beliefs of primitive
astronomy.)
3 He showed them all to me, and I wrote an
account of them.

4 He also wrote for me their names, their
regulations, and their operations.

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(Their operations, an indication that the stars
influence people's lives. This does not match modern
science.)
Chapter 33
1 From there I advanced northward to the ends of
the earth.
2 And there I saw the great and glorious wonder
of the ends of the whole earth.
3 There I saw celestial gates open to heaven,
three of which were distinctly separated. The north winds
came from them, blowing cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and
rain.
4 From one gate they blew gently, but when they
blew from the other two gates, they were violent and
strong. They blew heavily upon the earth.
(This description of climatology is completely
unrelated to science.)
Chapter 34
1 From there I went westward to the ends of the
earth;

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2 There I perceived three gates open, as I was
looking north; the gates and passages through them were
of equal magnitude.
(I defend the historicity of the Book of Enoch, but
that it underwent additions to endorse astrological beliefs
and astronomical superstitions of the time.)
Chapter 35

1 Then I proceeded to the ends of the earth to the
south, where I saw three gates open to the south, from
which came dew, rain, and wind.
2 From there I went to the ends of the eastern sky,
where I saw three celestial gates open to the east, which
had smaller gates within them. Through each of these
smaller gates the stars of heaven passed, and they
passed westward by a path that was seen by them, and
the entire period of their appearance.
(We can also assume that the descriptions in
many places have spiritual meanings rather than physical
descriptions.)

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3 When I saw them, I blessed them each time
they appeared, and I blessed the LORD of glory who had
performed these great and splendid signs, so that they
might display the magnificence of his works to the angels
and to the souls of men, and so that they might glorify all
his works and operations, might see the effects of his
power; might glorify the great work of his hands and bless
him forever.
Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
1 The vision that he saw, the second vision of
wisdom, which Enoch saw, the son of Jared, the son of
Mahalaleel, the son of Canaan, the son of Enosh, the son
of Seth, the son of Adam. This is the beginning of the
word of wisdom, which I have received to declare and to
speak to those who dwell on the earth. Hear from the
beginning, and understand to the end, the holy things that
I utter in the presence of the LORD of spirits. Those who
were before us thought them good to pronounce;
(Hypothetically, someone may have written it
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does not imply the book's value, since Jesus and the
apostles make implicit and explicit references to it.)
2 And we who came after have obstructed the
beginning of wisdom. Until now, it has not happened that
what I have received has been given before the Lord of
Spirits—wisdom according to the ability of my intellect and
according to the pleasure of the Lord of Spirits—and what
I have received from Him—a portion of eternal life.
3 And I obtained three parables, which I declared
to the inhabitants of the world.
Chapter 38
1 The first parable. When the congregation of the
righteous is revealed, and sinners are judged for their
transgressions, and are afflicted in the sight of the world;
2 When the righteous are revealed in the
presence of the righteous themselves, who will be chosen
by their good works, rightly weighed by the Lord of spirits,
and when the light of the righteous and the elect who
dwell on earth is revealed, where will be the dwelling of
sinners? And what will be the resting place of those who
have rejected the Lord of spirits? It would be better for
them if they had never been born.

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(When the righteous are revealed. Or, "when the
Righteous One appears"; Knibb, p. 125; cf. Charles, p.
112).
3 When the secrets of the righteous are also
revealed, then sinners will be judged and the wicked will
be afflicted in the presence of the righteous and the elect.
4 From that time on, those who possess the earth
will no longer be powerful and exalted. Nor will they be
able to look upon the countenance of the holy one, for the
light of the countenances of the holy ones, the righteous,
and the elect, will have been seen by the YHWH of spirits.
(For the light… YHWH of spirits. Or, "for the light
of the YHWH of spirits will have appeared in the face of
the holy ones, the gathered ones, and the chosen ones"
(Knibb, p. 126).
5 Then the mighty kings of that time will be
destroyed, but they will be delivered into the hands of the
righteous and holy ones.
(Battle of Armageddon)

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6 From that time on, no one will obtain mercy from
the Lord of spirits, because their lives in this world will be
completed.
Chapter 39
1 In those days the chosen and holy race will
descend from heaven, and their seed will be with the sons
of men. Enoch received books of indignation and wrath,
and books of haste and agitation.
(This description from the book of Enoch speaks
of the church returning with Christ for the millennial
kingdom. This proves that the rapture before the Great
Tribulation is indeed true.)
2 They will never obtain mercy, says the Lord of
spirits.
(Against the theory of universalism that says that
in the end everyone will be saved.)
3 Then a cloud snatched me away, and the wind
lifted me above the surface of the earth, placing me at the
very edge of the heavens.
4 There I saw another vision, and I saw the
dwellings and resting places of the saints. My eyes saw
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with the saints. They were entering, pleading and praying
for the children of men; while justice flowed like water
before them, and mercy spread over the earth like dew.
And so it will be with them forever and ever.
(The Book of Enoch proves that the church's
destiny is indeed heavenly and not earthly, as Jehovah's
Witnesses proclaim.)
5 At that time my eyes saw the dwelling of the
elect, of truth, faith, and righteousness.
6 The number of the holy and elect will be without
number in the presence of God forever and ever.
(This text also disputes the doctrine of the
144,000 who will exclusively go to heaven, as proclaimed
by Jehovah's Witnesses.)
7 I saw his dwelling under the wings of the Lord of
Spirits. All the holy and elect sang before him, their
appearance resembling a flame of fire; their mouths were
filled with blessings, and their lips glorified the name of the
Lord of Spirits. And righteousness dwelled before him
unceasingly.

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8 I desired to remain there, and my soul longed for
that dwelling. There was my former inheritance, for thus I
prevailed before the Lord of spirits.
9 At that time I glorified and exalted the name of
the Lord of spirits with praise and exaltation, for He has
established it with blessing and with exaltation, according
to His own good pleasure.
10 My eyes beheld that spacious place. I blessed
it and said: Blessed be He, blessed from the beginning
and forevermore. In the beginning, before the world was
created, and without end is His knowledge.
11 What is this world? Of every existing
generation, they will bless him who does not sleep
spiritually, but remains before Your glory, blessing,
glorifying, and exalting You, and saying: Holy, holy, the
Lord of spirits has filled the whole world with spirits.
12 There my eyes saw all who, without sleep,
stood before him and blessed him, saying, "Blessed are
you, and blessed be the name of God forever and ever."
Then my countenance was changed, until I could no
longer see.

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Chapter 40

1 After this I saw thousands upon thousands and
myriads upon myriads, and an infinite number of people,
standing before the Lord of Spirits.
2 Likewise, on the four wings of the Lord of Spirits,
on the four sides, I perceived others beside those who
stood before him. Their names I also know, because the
angel who was with me declared them to me, revealing to
me every secret.
3 Then I heard the voices of those on the four
sides, magnifying the Lord of Glory.
4 The first voice blessed the Lord of Spirits forever
and ever.
5 The second voice I heard blessing the Elect and
the elect who suffer for the sake of the Lord of Spirits.
(The Chosen One, a reference to the Messiah.
These four sides of God seem to be a reference to the
four beasts in the book of Revelation. They are different
figures of the same spiritual symbolism.)

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6 The third voice I heard begging and praying for
those who dwell on the earth, and supplicating in the
name of the Lord of Spirits.
(These voices are of spirit creatures standing
before the throne of God. Here we see the analogy with
the four beasts that stand before God, described in
Revelation.)
7 The fourth voice I heard driving out the wicked
angels, and forbidding them to enter into the presence of
the Lord of Spirits to bring accusations against those who
dwell on the earth.
(Wicked angels. Literally "the Satans"; Laurence,
p. 45; Knibb, p. 128. Ha-satan in Hebrew ("the adversary")
was originally the title of an office, not the name of an
angel. (To utter accusations against. Or, "to accuse";
Charles, p. 119, noting that in the comparative study of the
book of Enoch with Revelation, let us remember that in
Rev. 12 the Devil is called the Accuser of our brothers.)
8 After this I asked the angel of peace, who went
with me, to explain all that was hidden. I said to him: Who
are those whom I had seen on the four sides, and what
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answered: The first is the merciful, the patient, holy
Michael.
9 The second is he who presides over all the
suffering and affliction of the children of men, holy
Raphael. The third, who presides over all The one who is
powerful is Gabriel. And the fourth, who presides over the
repentance and hope of those who will inherit eternal life,
is Phanuel. These are the four angels of the Most High
God and their four voices, which I heard at that moment.
(The four angels mentioned are related to
humans; they are angels focused on earthly missions. The
Book of Enoch is highly interesting for the study of
angelology.)
Chapter 41
1 After this I saw the secrets of heaven and
paradise, according to their divisions, and of human
actions as they weighed them in scales. I saw the
dwellings of the elect and the dwellings of the saints. And
there my eyes saw all the sinners who had denied the
YHWH of glory and how they were expelled from there
and dragged out, as they had been there; no punishment
proceeded against them from the YHWH of spirits.

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2 There also my eyes saw the secrets of lightning
and thunder and the secrets of the winds, how they are
distributed when they blow over the earth: the secrets of
the winds, the dew, and the clouds. There I saw the place
from which they come and become saturated with the dust
of the earth.
3 There I saw the wooden receptacles into which
the winds are separated, the receptacle of hail, the
receptacle of snow, the receptacle of clouds, and the
cloud itself, which continued over the earth before the
creation of the world.
(The text seems to say that the weather elements
are kept in wooden boxes... Let us remember that the
Book of Enoch may have undergone alterations to
reinforce ancient beliefs. But it may be a symbolic and
spiritualized message.)
4 I also saw the receptacles of the moon, where
they come from, where they go, their glorious returns, and
how one becomes more splendid than the other. I have
marked their rich progress, their unchanging progress,
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of mutual fidelity by a stable oath; their conduct before the
sun and their adherence to the path allotted to them, in
obedience to the command of the Lord of spirits. Mighty is
his name forever and ever.
(Their conduct... allotted path. Or, "the sun goes
first and completes its journey"; Knibb, p. 129; cf. Charles,
p. 122).
5 Then I saw that the path of the moon, both
hidden and manifest, and also the progress of that path,
were completed day by day, and by night; while each,
together with the other, looked to the Lord of spirits,
magnifying and exalting Him without ceasing, since
exalting Him, for them, is rest; for in the splendid sun there
is a frequent change of blessing and curse.
6 The course of the moon is light for the upright,
but for sinners it is darkness. In the name of the Lord of
spirits, who has made a division between light and
darkness, and has separated the spirits of m en,
strengthening the spirits of the righteous for the sake of
his own righteousness.

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7 The angel does not prevent this, nor is he
endowed with the power to prevent it, for the Judge sees
all and judges them all in their very presence.
Chapter 42
1 Wisdom did not find a place on earth to dwell;
therefore her dwelling is in heaven.
2 Wisdom went out to dwell among the sons of
men, but she found no dwelling. Wisdom returned to her
place and sat among the angels. But after her return,
wickedness came out, which reluctantly found a dwelling
and dwelt among them like rain in the desert and like dew
on dry ground.
(We see here that the text speaks of symbolism
and spiritual elements. The book cannot be interpreted
literally. Indeed, this observation, so ancient and yet so
current, is sad. Humanity has knowledge, but no wisdom.
But here, sin has shelter; any sinful and criminal idea
tends to thrive.)
Chapter 43
1 I saw another splendor, and the stars of heaven.
I observed that he called them all by their respective
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in a just balance according to their light and the amplitude
of their places, the day of their appearance, and their
conversions. Splendor produced splendor; and their
conversion was the number of the angels, and of the
faithful.

2 Then I asked the angel who went with me, and
he explained to me secret things, and what their names
were. He answered, "The Lord of Spirits showed you a
likeness of this. They are the names of the righteous who
have lived on earth, who believe in the name of the Lord
of Spirits forever and ever."
Chapter 44
1 Another thing I also saw concerning the
splendor: that it ascends because of the stars and
becomes splendor, being unable to leave them.
Chapter 45

1 The second parable, concerning those who
deny the name of the dwelling place of the holy ones and
of the Lord of Spirits.

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2 They will not ascend to heaven or come upon
the earth. This will be the portion of the sinners who deny
the name of the Lord of Spirits and who are thus reserved
for the day of punishment and affliction.
3 On that day the Elect One will sit upon a throne
of glory and choose their estates and their countless
dwellings, while their spirits in them will be strengthened
when they see my Elect One, for they have fled for
protection to my holy and glorious name.
4 On that day I will cause my Elect One to dwell
among them; I will change the face of the heavens; I will
bless them and illuminate them forever.
5 I will also change the face of the earth; I will
bless it; and I will cause those I have chosen to dwell upon
it. But those who have committed sin and iniquity will not
dwell there, for I have marked their ways. I will satisfy my
righteous ones with peace, placing them before me; but
the condemnation of sinners will draw near, so that I may
destroy them from the face of the earth.
(The Book of Enoch foretells much about the
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of the eternal punishment of the wicked and that the elect
will dwell on earth after the Last Judgment.)
Chapter 46
1 There I saw the Ancient of Days, whose head
was like white wool, and with him another, whose
countenance resembled that of a man. His countenance
was full of grace, like that of the holy angels. Then I
inquired of the angels who were with me, who showed me
every secret thing concerning this Son of Man, who was
he, where he was from, and why he accompanied the
Ancient of Days.
2 He answered me and said: This is the Son of
Man, with whom righteousness belongs, and with whom
righteousness dwells, and who has revealed all the
treasures of what is hidden: for the Lord of Spirits has
chosen him, and his portion has exceeded all before the
Lord of Spirits in eternal ascension.
(Ancient of Days and Son of Man are two titles
that we see in the book of Enoch and that in the book of
the prophet Daniel and in the biographical books of Jesus
refer to the same person. In verse one of this chapter the
description of white hair like that also appears in the book

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of Revelation in reference to Jesus. Therefore, the book of
Enoch has a strong connotation with the revelation of the
New Testament).
3 This Son of Man, whom you see, will raise up
kings and mighty men from their dwelling places, and
mighty men from their thrones; he will loosen the reins of
the mighty, and he will break the teeth of sinners.
(Jesus will come to reign and he will break the
teeth of sinners, imagine that violent blows cause teeth to
break... The Messiah's rule will be with a rod of iron, says
the book of Revelation).
4 He will cast down kings from their thrones and
from their dominions because they will not exalt or praise
Him, nor humble themselves before Him, through whom
their kingdoms were given to them. Likewise, he will cast
down the countenance of the mighty, filling them with
confusion. Darkness will be their dwelling, and worms will
be their bed; from this their bed they will not hope to rise
again, because they do not exalt the name of the Lord of
spirits.
(Jesus will return as king and overthrow all
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zealously preach the coming of the future kingdom of
Christ.)
5 They will condemn the stars of heaven and raise
their hands against the Most High. They will walk and
dwell on the earth, displaying all their acts of iniquity, even
their works of iniquity. Their strength will be in their riches,
and their faith in the goods they have formed with their
own hands. They will deny the name of the YHWH of
spirits and will expel him from their temples, where they
assemble;
(The book of Enoch speaks of the persecution of
the Church, which in fact continues to this day in many
parts of the world.)
6 And with him the faithful one (they will expel),
who suffers in the name of the YHWH of spirits.
(They will cast out… the faithful. Or, "they will cast
out of the causes of their congregation and of the faithful"
[Knibb, p. 132; cf. Charles, p. 131]).
CHAPTER 47
1 In that day the prayer of the saints and of the
righteous and the blood of the righteous will ascend from
the earth before the presence of the Lord of spirits.

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2 In that day the saints who dwell in heaven will
gather together, and with united voices of petition,
supplication, prayer, praise, and blessing upon the name
of the Lord of spirits, because of the blood of the righteous
that has been shed, so that the prayer of the righteous
may not cease before the Lord of spirits, so that judgment
may be executed on their behalf; and so that their
patience may endure forever. (This text above resembles
Revelation 9:6, which speaks of the prayer of the dead for
the living. That their patience… may endure forever. Or,
"(that) their patience may not have to endure forever"
[Knibb, p. 133]).
3 At that time I saw the Ancient of Days as he sat
upon the throne of his glory, while the book of the living
was opened in his presence, and while all the powers that
are above the heavens stood around and before him.
(Another narrative from the book of Enoch similar
to the book of Revelation in which Jesus, the Ancient of
Days, opens the book with seven seals.)
4 Then the hearts of the saints were filled with joy
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the supplication of the saints was heard, and the blood of
the righteous was appreciated by the Lord of spirits.
(See Revelation chapter 5. The book of Enoch
and Revelation complement each other.)
Chapter 48
1 In that place I saw a fountain of righteousness,
which never fails, surrounded by many springs of wisdom.
From it all who were thirsty drank and were filled with
wisdom, dwelling with the righteous, the elect, and the
holy.
2 At that hour the Son of Man was invoked before
the Lord of Spirits, and his name was invoked in the
presence of the Ancient of Days.
(In this text, three entities are distinguished in
heaven: Yahweh, the Son of Man, and the Ancient of
Days. This would be a reference to the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.)
3 Before the sun and the signs were created,
before the stars of heaven were formed, his name was
invoked in the presence of the Lord of Spirits. He will be a
support for the righteous and the holy to lean on without
fail; and he will be the light of the nations.

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(Light of the Nations is a terminology used for
Jesus in the book of the prophet Isaiah.)
4 He will be the hope of those whose hearts are
afraid. All who dwell on earth will fall down before Him;
they will bless and glorify Him, and sing prayers to the
name of the Lord of Spirits.
(I consider it barbaric for Christians to stop
invoking God's sacred name: Yahweh – YHWH.)
5 Therefore, the Chosen and Hidden One existed
in His presence, before the world was formed, and
forevermore.
6 In His presence He existed, and revealed to the
holy and righteous the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits; for
He preserved the place of the upright, because they were
angry and rejected this world of iniquity, and detested all
its works and ways, in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7 For in His name they will be preserved, and His
will be life. In those days the kings of the earth and the
mighty men, who gained the world by their deeds, will
become humble in their countenances.

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(The physical and material kingdom of Christ is
preached in both the books of the Bible and the book of
Enoch.)
8 For in the day of their anxiety and distress, their
souls will not be saved, and they will be in subjection to
the one I have chosen.
9 I will throw them like straw into the fire and like
lead into the water. So they will burn in the presence of
the righteous and sink in the presence of the holy; not a
tenth of them will be found.
10 But in the day of tribulation the world will find
tranquility.
11 In their presence they will fail and will not be
raised again; nor will there be anyone to take them by the
hand and raise them up, because they have denied the
Lord of spirits and his Messiah. The name of the Lord will
be blessed.
(The doctrine of universal salvation is not
preached in either the Bible or the Book of Enoch; those
who deny Christ will not be raised, that is, restored.)
Chapter 48
A

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(Two consecutive chapters are numbered "48".)
1 Wisdom has poured down like water, and glory
does not fail before Him forever and ever, for He is
powerful in all the secrets of righteousness.
2 But iniquity passes away like a shadow and has
no fixed season, for the Elect One abides before the Lord
of spirits, and His glory is forever and ever, and His power
from generation to generation.
3 With Him dwell the spirits of intellectual wisdom,
the spirit of instruction and power, and the spirits of those
who sleep in righteousness; He will judge secret things.
(This passage recalls the text from Isaiah about
the seven spirits of God dwelling in the Messiah.)
4 No one will be able to utter a single word before
Him, for the Chosen One stands in the presence of the
YHWH of spirits according to His own pleasure.
Chapter 49
1 In those days the saints and the elect will
undergo a change. The light of day will rest upon them,
and the splendor and glory of the saints will be
transformed.

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(Our greatest hope is to undergo the
transformation of our nature; everything else is
meaningless in this life.)
2 On that day of tribulation, evil will be heaped
upon sinners, but the righteous will triumph in the name of
the Lord of Spirits.
3 Others will be led to see that they must repent
and desist from the works of their hands, and that glory
does not await them in the presence of the Lord of Spirits,
since through His name they can be saved. The Lord of
Spirits will have compassion on them, for great is His
mercy, and righteousness is in His judgment; in the
presence of His glory, in His judgment, iniquity will not
stand. He who does not repent will perish in His presence.
4 From now on I will not have mercy on them,
says the Lord of Spirits.
(A portion of humanity will be screwed; let no one
be foolish enough to believe that God will be kind and not
send people to hell...)
Chapter 50

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1 In those days the earth will give up its womb,
and Hades will give up those it has received, and
destruction will restore those to whom it owes.
(The above text is explicit about the resurrection
to eternal damnation.)
2 He will select the righteous and holy from
among them, for the day of their salvation has drawn near.
3 And in those days the Elect One will sit on his
throne, and every secret of intellectual wisdom will
proceed from his mouth, for the Lord of spirits has given
and glorified him.
4 In those days the mountains will leap like frogs
and the hills will skip like young sheep satisfied with milk;
and all the righteous will be made like the angels in
heaven.
(See Psalm 114:4. Jesus said that in the
resurrection we will not marry, but will be like the angels,
that is, sexless.)
5 Their countenances will light up with joy, for in
those days the Chosen One will be exalted. The earth will
rejoice; the righteous will dwell in it and possess it.

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(We must admit that some will have eternal life in
heaven, and another portion of the saved will inhabit the
earth forever. In a sense, Jehovah's Witnesses are right.)
Chapter 51
1 After that time, in the place where I had seen
every secret vision, I was snatched away in a whirlwind
and transported westward.
2 There my eyes saw the secrets of heaven and
everything on earth: a mountain of fire, a mountain of
copper, a mountain of silver, a mountain of gold, a
mountain of molten metal, and a mountain of lead.
3 Then I asked the angel who went with me,
"What are these things I saw in secret?"
4 He said, "All the things you saw will be for the
dominion of the Messiah, so that he may rule and be
powerful on the earth."
(The meaning of these mountains is uncertain. Is
it literal or figurative? I think figurative.)
5 And that angel of peace answered me, saying,
"Wait a little while, and you will understand, and every
secret thing will be revealed to you, which the Lord of
spirits has decreed. Those mountains that you saw—the

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mountain of iron, the mountain of copper, the mountain of
silver, the mountain of gold, the mountain of liquid metal,
and the mountain of lead—all these will be like a
honeycomb before the fire in the presence of the Elect
One, and like water flowing down from above upon these
mountains, and they will become weak before his feet.

6 In those days men will not be saved by gold or
silver.
7 Nor will they have it in their power to secure
themselves and fly.
8 There will be no iron there, nor a coat of mail for
the breast.
9 Copper will be useless; useless will be that
which does not rust or consume; and carrying will not be
desired.
10 All these things will be rejected and perish from
the earth, when the Elect One appears in the presence of
the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 52
1 There my eyes saw a deep valley, and its
entrance was wide.

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2 All who dwell on the earth, in the sea, and on
the islands will bring gifts, presents, and offerings to him;
yet that deep valley will not be filled. Their hands will
commit iniquity. All that they produce by labor will be
devoured by sinners for their crime. But they will perish
from the presence of the Lord of Spirits and from the face
of his earth. They will rise up and will not fail forever.
3 I saw angels of punishment dwelling there,
preparing all the instruments of Satan.
4 Then I asked the angel of peace who was with
me, for whom these instruments were prepared.
5 He said, "These are prepared for the kings and
mighty men of the earth, so that they may perish in this
way."
6 Afterward, the righteous and the chosen house
of their congregation will appear, and from that time on
they will be unchangeable in the name of the Lord of
spirits.
7 Neither will those mountains exist in his
presence as the earth and hills do, as springs of water do.
And the righteous will be relieved from the vexation of
sinners.

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(Chapter that portrays the preservation of the
saints and the punishment of the wicked. On this is our
eternal hope.)
Chapter 53
1 Then I looked and turned to another part of the
earth, where I saw a deep valley of blazing fire.
2
Into this valley they brought the monarchs and the
mighty men.
3 There my eyes saw the instruments they had
made, weightless iron chains.
(Weightless. Or, "of immeasurable weight" -
Knibb, p. 138.)
4 Then I asked the angel of peace who was with
me, saying, "For whom are these chains prepared?"
5 He answered, "These are prepared for the hosts
of Azazeel, so that they may be handed over and judged
to a lesser condemnation, and so that his angels may be
subdued with hurled stones, as the Lord of spirits
commanded."
6 Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, will
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into a furnace of blazing fire so that the Lord of spirits may
be avenged for the crimes they have committed; because
they have become ministers of Satan and have deceived
those who dwell on the earth.
(The doctrine of the eternal furnace as vengeance
against those who rebelled against God is a peaceful
doctrine. Whoever doesn't believe it will have to pay to
see.)
7 In those days punishment will come from the
Lord of spirits, and the water wells in the heavens above
will be opened, and likewise the springs under the earth.
(Enoch speaks of two punishments: one with fire,
and the other with water. The universal flood that would
occur soon in those days.)
8 All the waters in the heavens and below will be
gathered together and mixed together.

9 The water that is in the sky above will be the
agent;
(Agent. Literally, "male" - Laurence, p. 61).

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10 And the water that is under the earth will be the
container, (49) and all who dwell on the earth will be
destroyed, and those who dwell under the ends of the sky.
(Vessel. Literally, "female" - Laurence, p. 61).
11 By these means they will understand the
iniquity they have committed on the earth, and by these
means they will perish.
Chapter 54
1 After this the Ancient of Days repented, and
said: In vain have I destroyed all the inhabitants of the
earth.
(Genesis 6 also says that God repented, but of
having made man. In both cases, we understand that the
word repentance means to be saddened, not to regret
having made a mistake, since God is infallible.)
2 And he swore by his great name, saying: From
now on I will not do this to any of those who dwell on the
earth.
3 But I will set a sign in heaven; and it will be a
faithful witness between me and them forever, as long as
the days of heaven are upon the earth.

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(Cf. Gen. 9:13, "I will set my bow in the cloud, and
it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the
earth.")
4 After that, according to this my decree, when I
am disposed to bind them beforehand, by the
instrumentality of angels, in the day of distress and
trouble, my wrath and my punishment will remain on them,
my punishment and my anger, says God, the YHWH of
spirits.
5 O you kings, you mighty ones who inhabit the
world, you will see my Chosen One, seated on the throne
of my glory. And He will judge Azazeel and all his
associates, in the name of the Lord of spirits.
6 There too I saw the hosts of angels moving in
punishment, confined in a net of iron and bronze. Then I
asked the angel of peace, who was with me, "To whom
are these under confinement going?"
7 He said, "To all your elect and your beloved, that
they may be cast into the fountains and deep chasms of
the abyss."
(For each of… your beloved. Or, "For each of your
chosen and for your beloved" - Knibb, p. 139.)

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8 And that valley will be filled with your elect and
beloved; the days of their life will be fulfilled, but the days
of their error will be innumerable.
9 Then princes will combine and conspire
together. The chiefs of the east, among the Parthians and
Medes, will remove kings, among whom a spirit of
disturbance will enter. He will cast them from their thrones,
leaping like lions from their hiding places, and like
ravenous wolves among the flock.
(Princes. Or, "angels" - Charles, p. 149; Knibb, p.
140.)

10 They will go up and trample the land of their
chosen ones. The land of their chosen ones will be before
them. The threshing floor, the path, and the city of my
righteous people will be ruled by the progress of their
horses. They will rise up to destroy one another; their right
hand will be stretched out; a man will not know his friend
or his brother;
11 Nor a son his father or his mother, until the
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their death and punishment. Nor will this happen without
cause.
12 In those days the mouth of hell will be opened,
into which they will be immersed; hell will destroy and
swallow up those who take the face of the chosen ones.
Chapter 55

1 After this I saw another army of chariots with
men driving them.
2 And they came upon the wind from the east,
from the west, and from the south.
(From the south. Literally "from the middle of the
day." - Laurence, p. 63).
3 The sound of their chariots was heard.
4 And when that commotion occurred, the holy
ones outside of heaven heard it; the pillar of the earth
shook from its foundation, and the sound was heard from
the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven at the same
time.
5 Then they fell down and worshiped the Lord of
Spirits.

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6 This is the end of the second parable.
Chapter 56
1 Then I began to speak the third parable,
concerning the holy ones and the elect.
2 Blessed are you, O holy ones and the elect, for
your place is glorious.
3 The holy ones will exist in the light of the sun,
and the elect in the light of eternal life, whose days will
never end, nor will the days of the holy ones be
numbered, who seek light and obtain righteousness with
the Lord of Spirits.
(The saved are called saints in the Bible and in
the Book of Enoch, because saints mean people
separated from the world of sin to serve God. As we see,
in our day I think there are very few of them...)
4 Peace be to the saints with the Lord of the
world.
5 From now on, the saints are told to seek in
heaven the secrets of righteousness, the portion of faith;
like the sun rising upon the earth while the darkness
disappears. There will be endless light; they will not enter
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destroyed beforehand, and the light will increase before
the Lord of spirits; before the Lord of spirits the light of
righteousness will increase forever.
Chapter 57
1 In those days my eyes saw the secrets of the
lightnings and their splendor, and the judgment that
belongs to them.
2 They shine by blessing and by cursing,
according to the will of the Lord of spirits.
3 There I saw the secrets of thunder when it roars
in the sky above, and its sound is heard.
4 The dwellings of the earth were also shown to
me. The sound of thunder is for peace and for blessing,
both for good and for curse, according to the word of the
Lord of spirits.
5 After that, every secret of the splendors and the
thunders was seen by me. For blessing and for fertility
they illuminate.
Chapter 58

1 In the fiftieth year, in the seventh month, on the
fourteenth day of the life of Enoch, in that parable I saw

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the heaven of heavens tremble, that it shook violently, and
that the powers of the Most High and of the angels,
thousands upon thousands, and myriads upon myriads,
were shaken with great agitation. And when I looked, the
Ancient of Days was seated on the throne of his glory, and
the angels and saints were standing around him. A great
trembling came upon me. My loins were bowed and
loosed, my kidneys were dissolved; and I fell upon my
face. Holy Michael, another holy angel, one of the saints,
was sent, who lifted me up.
(This passage reminds me of John in the book of
Revelation chapter one.)
2 And when he lifted me up, my spirit returned, for
I was unable to bear this sight of violence, its shaking, and
the shock of heaven.
3 Then holy Michael said to me, "Why are you
troubled by this sight?"
4 Since then there has been a day of mercy; He
has been merciful and bountiful to all who dwell on the
earth.
5 But when that time comes, then the power,
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of Spirits has prepared for those who bow down to the
judgment of righteousness, for those who renounce that
judgment, and for those who take His name in vain.
(Worse than taking a name in vain is making
God's name a vain name, which no one even cares
about...)
6 That day was prepared for the elect as a day of
covenant and for sinners as a day of inquisition.
7 On that day two monsters will be distributed as
food: a female monster, whose name is Leviathan,
dwelling in the depths of the sea, above the springs of
water;
(Distributed as food. Or, "separated one from the
other" - Knibb, p. 143).
8 And a male monster, whose name is Behemoth,
who possesses, moving in his belly, the invisible desert.
9 His name was Dendayen. East of the garden,
where the elect and the righteous will dwell, where he
received from my ancestor, from Adam the first of men,
whose man the Lord of spirits made.
(He received him… first of men. Or, "my great-
grandfather was taken, the seventh from Adam" - Charles,

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p. 155. This implies that this section of the book was
written by Noah, a descendant of Enoch. Scholars have
speculated that this part of the book may contain
fragments of the lost Apocalypse of Noah.)
10 Then I asked another angel to show me the
power of those monsters, how they separated that same
day, one being in the depths of the sea, and the other in
the dry desert.
(This sounds like Revelation chapter 13, the two
monsters or Beasts. One coming out of the sea and the
other out of the earth.)
11 And he said, "You, son of man, are here
desirous of understanding the secret things."
12 And the angel of peace who was with me said,
"These two monsters are prepared by the power of God to
become food, so that God's punishment will not be in
vain."
13 Then children will be killed with their mothers,
and sons with their fathers.
14 And when the punishment of the Lord of spirits
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punishment of the Lord of spirits will not be in vain. After
that, judgment will exist with mercy and longsuffering.
(The Beasts will arise at the time of the End.)

Chapter 59
1 Then another angel, who was with me, spoke to
me,
2 And showed me the first and the last of the
secrets in heaven above, and in the depths of the earth:
3 In the ends of heaven and in its foundations,
and in the recesses of the heavens.
4 He showed me how their spirits were divided;
how they were shaken, and how both the springs and the
winds were numbered according to the strength of their
spirit.
5 He showed me the power of the light of the
moon, that its power is just; as well as the divisions of the
stars, according to their respective names;
6 That each division is separate; that the lightning
flashes;
7 That their troops immediately obey, and that a
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sound. Thunder and lightning are not separated; nor do
they move with one spirit, since they are not separate.
8 For when the lightning flashes, the thunder
sounds, and the spirit pauses at its own period, making an
equal division between them, for the receptacle on which
their periods depend is loose like sand. Each of them at its
own station is restrained with a bridle and turned by the
power of the spirit, which thus impels them according to
the spacious expanse of the earth.
9 The spirit of the sea is equally powerful and
strong, and such a strong power makes it pour out; thus it
is driven forward and spreads against the mountains of
the earth. The spirit of frost has its angel; in the spirit of
hail he is a good angel; the spirit of snow ceases in its
strength, and a solitary spirit is in it, which ascends from it
like vapor, and is called refrigeration.
(The Book of Enoch constantly mentions that
there are spirits related to each force of nature. Broadly
speaking, it seems almost an animistic belief, that the
elements of nature have spirits, but suddenly there are
even secrets that we always attribute to superstition.)

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10 The spirit of the mist also dwells with them in
its receptacle, but it has a receptacle for itself, for its
progress is in splendor,
11 In light and darkness, in winter and summer. Its
receptacle is brightness, and an angel is in it.
12 The spirit of the dew has its home in the
extremities of heaven, in connection with the receptacle of
the rain, and its progress is in winter and summer. The
cloud produced by it and the cloud in the middle become
united, one giving to the other; and when the spirit of the
rain is moving from its receptacle, angels come and,
opening its receptacle, bring it forth.
13 When it is sprinkled over the whole earth, it
forms a union with all kinds of water on the ground; for the
waters remain on the earth, because they provide
nourishment for the earth from the Most High, who is in
heaven.

14 Regarding this report, therefore, there is a
regulation for the quality of the rain the angels receive.
15 I saw all these things, all the way to Paradise.

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Chapter 60

1 In those days I saw long robes given to those
angels, who took their wings and fled toward the north.
2 I asked the angel, saying, "Where did they take
those long robes, and where did they go?" He said, "They
went to measure."
3 The angel, who continued with me, said, "These
are the measures of the righteous, and ropes will be
brought so that they may trust in the name of the YHWH
of spirits forever and ever."
(The Book of Enoch cannot be considered entirely
from the time of Enoch and has probably undergone
several alterations. For it is not reasonable that the name
Yahweh was known to Enoch, since God revealed himself
thus only centuries later to Moses.)
4 The elect will begin to dwell with the elect.

5 These are the measures that will be given by
faith, which will strengthen the words of righteousness.

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6 These measures will reveal all the secrets in the
depths of the earth.
7 And it will come to pass that those who were
destroyed in the wilderness and those who were devoured
by the fish of the sea and the beasts of the field will return
and trust in the day of the Elect One, for no one will perish
in the presence of the YHWH of spirits, nor will anyone be
able to perish.
8 Then they received the commandment, all who
were in heaven above, to whom was given a combined
power, voice, and splendor, similar to fire.
9 And first, with their voices they blessed him,
exalted him, glorified him with wisdom, and attributed to
him wisdom with the word and with the breath of life.
10 Then the YHWH of spirits seated on the throne
of his glory, the Elect One,
11 Who will judge all the works of the Holy One in
heaven above, and in a scale He will weigh their actions.
And when He lifts up His countenance to judge their
secret ways in the word of the name of the Lord of Spirits,
and their progress in the path of the righteous judgment of
the Most High God;

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12 They will speak with one voice; they will bless,
glorify, extol, and pray in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
13 He will call upon all the power of the heavens,
all the holy ones above, and upon the power of God—the
Cherubim, the Seraphim, the Ophanim, all the angels of
power, and all the angels of the Lord, namely, the Elect
One, and the other Power, which was upon the water that
day.
(Yahweh is in the plural, a reference to the triunity
and plurality of persons in God.)
14 And they will raise their voices together; They
will bless, glorify, pray, and exalt with the spirit of faith,
with the spirit of wisdom and patience, with the spirit of
mercy, with the spirit of justice and peace, and with the
spirit of kindness; all will say with one voice: Blessed is
He! And the name of the Lord of spirits will be blessed
forever and ever; all who do not sleep will bless him in
heaven above.
15 Every saint in heaven will bless him; every
elect who dwells in the garden of life and every spirit of
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name; and every mortal man, more than the powers of
heaven, will glorify and bless his name forever and ever.
.
(Every mortal man. Literally, "all flesh" - Laurence,
p. 73).
16 For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits; He
is magnanimous; and all His works, all His power, great as
are the things He has done, He has revealed to the holy
and elect, in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
Chapter 61
1 Then the Lord commanded the kings, the
princes, the exalted ones, and those who dwell on the
earth, saying: Open your eyes, and lift up your trumpets, if
you are able to comprehend the Elect One.
2 The Lord of Spirits sat upon the throne of His
glory.
3 And the spirit of righteousness was placed upon
Him.
4 The word of His mouth will destroy all sinners
and all worldly people, who will perish before Him.
5 On that day all the kings, the princes, the
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and perceive Him who sits on the throne of His glory, that
before Him the saints will be judged in righteousness,
6 and that nothing spoken before Him will be
spoken in vain.
7 Trouble will come upon them, as upon a woman
in labor, whose labor is severe, when her child comes to
the mouth of her womb and she is in difficulty in giving
birth.
8 One portion of them will look at another. They
will be astonished and will downcast their faces,
9 and distress will seize them when they see the
Son of the woman sitting on His throne of glory.

(This passage about the woman and her son
recalls the text in Revelation chapter 12, in John's vision of
the woman and the dragon.)
10 Then the kings, the princes, and all who
possess the earth will glorify Him who holds dominion over
all, the One who has been in council. For from the
beginning the Son of Man existed in secret, whom the
Most High preserved in the presence of His power and
was revealed to the elect.

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11 He will sow the congregation of the saints and
the elect, and all the elect will stand before Him on that
day.
12 All kings, princes, the exalted One, and those
who rule over all the earth will fall on their faces before
Him and worship Him.
(An indication of the kingdom of the Antichrist.)
13 They will place their hope in this Son of Man
and pray to Him and beg for mercy.
14 Then the Lord of spirits will hasten to expel
them from His presence. Their faces will be filled with
confusion, and their faces will be covered with darkness.
The angels will take them for punishment, that vengeance
may be inflicted on those who have oppressed His
children and His elect. And they will become an example
to the saints and His elect. Through them, they will be
made joyful, for the wrath of the Lord of spirits will rest
upon them.
15 Then the sword of the Lord of spirits will be
drunk with their blood, but the saints and the elect will be
saved on that day; the faces of sinners and the worldly
from that time on they will not see.

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(Will the elect be saved on that day because they
will be raptured beforehand, or because God will preserve
their lives?)

16 The Lord of Spirits will remain over them:
17 And with this Son of Man they will dwell, and
eat, and lie down, and rise up, forever and ever.
18 The holy and elect have risen from the earth.
They have ceased to be dejected in their countenances,
and have been clothed with the garments of life. Those
clothed with life are with the Lord of Spirits, in whose
presence their garments will not grow old, nor will their
glory be diminished.

Chapter 62
1 In those days the kings who possessed the
earth will be punished by the angels of His wrath,
wherever they are delivered to them, so that He may give
them rest for a short time; and so that they may fall down
before Him and worship the Lord of Spirits, confessing
their sins before Him.

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2 They will bless and glorify the Lord of spirits,
saying: Blessed is the Lord of spirits, the Lord of kings, the
Lord of spirits, the Lord of riches, the Lord of glory, and
the Lord of wisdom.
3 He will illuminate every secret thing.
4 His power is from generation to generation, and
His glory forever and ever.
5 Deep are all His secrets and countless; His
righteousness is incalculable.
6 Now we know that we must glorify and bless the
Lord of kings, who is King over all.
7 They will also say: Who has allowed us to stand
to glorify, praise, bless, and confess in the presence of His
glory?
8 And now is the rest we desire small, but we
have not found it; we have rejected it and have not
possessed it. Light has passed before us, and darkness
has covered our thrones forever.
9 For we have not confessed before Him; We
have not glorified the name of the Lord of kings; we have
not glorified the Lord in all His works, but we have trusted
in the scepter of our own dominion and our glory.

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10 On that day of our suffering and anguish, He
will not save us, nor will we find rest. We confess that our
Lord is faithful in all His works, in all His judgments and in
His righteousness.
11 In His judgments, He shows no respect for
persons; and we must depart from His presence because
of our evil deeds.
12 All our sins are truly without number.
13 Then they will say to themselves, "Our souls
are filled with the instruments of crime;
14 But that does not prevent us from descending
into the flaming belly of hell."
15 From that time on, their faces will be filled with
darkness and confusion before the Son of Man, from
whose presence they will be driven out, and before whom
the sword will stand, driving them out.
16 Thus says the Lord of spirits: This decree and
judgment against the princes, the kings, the exalted ones,
and those who possess the earth, in the presence of the
Lord of spirits.

Chapter 63

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1 I saw other faces in that secret place. I heard
the voice of an angel saying, "These are the angels who
came down from heaven to earth and revealed secrets to
the sons of men and seduced the sons of men to commit
sin."
(The Nephilim are angels who rebelled against
God after the fall of Lucifer.)

Chapter 64
(Chapters 64, 65, 66, and the first verse of 67
evidently contain Noah's version, not Enoch's - Laurence,
p. 78).
1 In those days Noah saw that the earth bowed,
and that destruction was approaching.
2 Then he lifted up his feet and went to the ends
of the earth, to the dwelling of his great-grandfather
Enoch.
3 And Noah cried with a bitter voice, "Hear me,
hear me, hear me, three times." And he said, "Tell me
what is happening on the earth, for the earth is torn and
shaken violently. I will surely perish with it."

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4 After this there was a great disturbance on the
earth, and a voice was heard from heaven. I fell on my
face, and my great-grandfather Enoch came and stood
beside me.
5 He said to me, "Why do you cry to me with a
bitter cry and lamentation?"
6 A commandment has gone forth from the Lord
against those who dwell on the earth, that they should be
destroyed, for they know every secret of the angels, every
oppressive work, the secret power of the demons, and all
the power of those who perform sorceries, as well as of
those who make molten images throughout the earth.
(The demons. Literally, "the Satans" - Laurence,
p. 78).
7 They know how silver is produced from the dust
of the earth and how the metallic drop exists in the earth,
since lead and tin are not produced from the earth as their
primary source of production.
8 There is an angel placed over it, and the angel
struggles to prevail.
(I do not know whether the Book of Enoch
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concept of angel in the mind of the writer refers to a much
broader form of essence than we have from traditional
angelology.)
9 After this, my great-grandfather Enoch took me
by the hand, lifted me up, and said to me, "Go, for I have
inquired of the Lord of spirits concerning this disturbance
of the earth." He answered, "Because of their wickedness
their innumerable judgments have been accomplished
before me. Concerning the moons they have inquired, and
they know that the earth will perish with those who dwell
upon it, and that they will have no place of refuge forever."
(Concerning the moons… they dwell upon it. Or,
"Because of the sorceries they have sought and learned,
the earth and those who dwell upon it will be destroyed" -
Knibb, p. 155).
10 They have discovered secrets, and they are
the ones who have been judged; but not you, my son. The
YHWH of spirits knows that you are pure and good, free
from the reproach of uncovering secrets.
11 He, the Holy One, will establish His name
among the holy ones and will preserve you from those
who dwell on the earth. He will establish your offspring in

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righteousness with dominion and great glory, and from
your offspring righteousness will spread, and holy men
without number forever.

(With dominion… glory. Literally, "for kings, and
for great glory" - Laurence, p. 79).
Chapter 65

1 After this he showed me the angels of
punishment, who are ready to come and open all the
mighty waters under the earth:
2 That they may be for judgment and for the
destruction of all those who remain and dwell on the earth.
3 The YHWH of spirits commanded the angels
who went out, not to take men, and to preserve them,
4 for those angels preside over all the mighty
waters. Then I went out from the presence of Enoch.

(Angels preside over the elements of nature, and
this suggests that certain natural behaviors such as rain,
rising temperatures, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions

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can be triggered by beings linked to these phenomena.
Perhaps this is why humans will never understand and
accurately predict climatic effects.)
Chapter 66
1 In those days the word of God came to me and
said: See, Noah, your lot has ascended to Me, a lot
immune from crime, a lot beloved and superior.
2 Now then the angels will work the trees, (61) but
while they do this, I will lay my hand on them and preserve
them.
(They will work on the trees. Or, "they are making
a (structure of) wood" - Knibb, p. 156.)
3 The seed of life will arise from it, and a change
will take place so that the dry land will not be left empty. I
will establish your seed before Me forever and ever, and
the seed of those who dwell with you on the face of the
earth. It will be blessed and multiplied in the presence of
the earth, in the name of the Lord.
4 They will confine those angels who have
revealed wickedness. They will be confined in that fiery
valley, which my great-grandfather first showed me in the

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west, where there are mountains of gold and silver, iron,
melting metal, and tin.
5 I saw that valley where there is great
disturbance and where the waters are agitated.
6 And when all this was done, from the fluid mass
of fire and in the disturbance that prevailed in that place, a
strong smell of sulfur arose and mingled with the waters;
and the valley of the angels who had been guilty of
seduction was burned to the ground.
(The disturbance that prevailed. Literally,
"disturbed them" - Laurence, p. 81; Fluid mass of fire,
refers to the earth's magma. The Bible and the Book of
Enoch and other ancient writings refer to a hellish
underworld beneath the earth, which is made of
incandescent lava.)
7 Through that valley rivers of fire were also
flowing, into which those angels who deceived the
inhabitants of the earth will be condemned.
8 And in those days these waters will be for kings,
for princes, for the exalted, and for the inhabitants of the
earth, for the healing of soul and body, and for the
judgment of the spirit.

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.
9 Their spirits will be filled with feasting so that
they may be judged in their bodies; because they denied
the Lord of spirits, and though they perceive their
condemnation day after day, they have not believed in his
name.
(Feast. Or, "lust" - Knibb, p. 157).
10 And as the inflammation of their bodies will be
great, so their spirits will undergo a transformation forever.
11 For no word that is spoken before the Lord of
spirits will be in vain.
12 Judgment has come upon them because they
trusted in their fleshly lust, and denied the Lord of spirits.
13 In those days the waters of that valley will be
transformed, for while the angels are being judged, the
heat of those springs undergoes a change.
14 And while the angels ascend, the waters of the
springs again undergo a change and freeze. Then I heard
holy Michael answer and say: This judgment, with which
the angels will be judged, will bear witness against kings,
princes, and those who possess the earth.

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15 For these waters of judgment will be for their
healing and for the death of their bodies. But they will not
perceive and will not believe that the waters will be
transformed and become like fire, which will burn forever.
(Death. Or, "Lust" - Charles, p. 176; Knibb, p.
158).
Chapter 67
1 After this he gave me the characteristic marks of
all the secret things in the book of my great-grandfather
Enoch, and in the parables that had been given to him,
inserting them for me among the words of the book of
parables.
2 At that moment holy Michael answered and said
to Raphael: The power of the spirit hurls me from here and
drives me out. The severity of the judgment, the secret
judgment of the angels—who can observe the endurance
of that severe judgment that took place and became
permanent without being dissolved in its place? Again,
holy Michael answered and said to holy Raphael: Who is
there whose heart has not been softened by this, and
whose minds have not been grieved by this thing?

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3 Judgment has come against them by those who
thus dragged them out; and who departed, while they
were in the presence of the YHWH of spirits.
4 In the same way, holy Rakael also said to
Raphael: They will not be before the eye of the YHWH,
since the YHWH of spirits has been offended by them, for
as YHWH has behaved, He brings upon them a secret
judgment forever and ever.
5 For neither angel nor man receives a portion of
it, but they will only receive their own judgment forever
and ever.
Chapter 68
1 After this judgment they will be astonished and
angered, for they will be displayed to the inhabitants of the
earth.

2 These are the names of these angels. These
are their names: The first is Samyaza; the second is
Arstikapha; the third is Armen; the fourth, Kakabael; the
fifth, Turel; the sixth, Rumyel; the seventh, Danyal; the
eighth, Kael; the ninth, Barakel; the tenth, Azazel; the
eleventh, Armers; the twelfth, Bataryal; the thirteenth,

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Basasael; the fourteenth, Ananel; the fifteenth, Turyal; the
sixteenth, Simapiseel; the seventeenth, Yetarel; the
eighteenth, Tumael; the nineteenth, Tarel; the twentieth,
Rumel; the twenty-first, Azazyel
. 3 These are the chiefs of the angels, and the
names of the leaders of their hundreds, their leaders of
fifties, and the leaders of their tens.
(The universe is hierarchical. Anyone who dislikes
leadership is rebellious. God created the role of leader,
patriarch, and alpha male. Democracy is an attack on the
authority of the father. A home cannot be democratic. The
father rules. The universe was created this way. The
angels were organized this way.)
4 The name of the first is Yekun: he was the one
who seduced all the children of the holy angels and made
them descend to earth, leading the offspring of men
astray.
(Yekun can simply mean "the rebel" - Knibb, p.
160).
5 The name of the second is Kezabel, who gave
bad advice to the children of the holy angels and led them
to corrupt their bodies by fathering humans.

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6 The name of the third is Gadrel: he discovered
every blow of death to the children of men.
7 He deceived Eve and revealed to the children of
men the instruments of death, the coat of mail, the shield,
and the sword for slaughter—every instrument of death to
the children of men.
8 These things came from his hand to those who
dwell on the earth from that time onward forever.
9 The name of the fourth is Penemue: he
discovered to the children of men bitterness and
sweetness,
10 And showed them every secret of his wisdom.
11 He taught men to understand writing and the
use of ink and paper.
(The Book of Enoch portrays the world and human
civilization as being strongly influenced by evil angelic
beings.)
12 Therefore, numerous have been those who
have gone astray in every period of the world, even to this
day.
13 Men were not born for this, thus with pen and
ink, to confirm their faith;

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(I very much doubt the originality of this text. It is
likely that an extremist who defended an idea contrary to
the study inserted this text. We cannot defend the
inspiration of the Book of Enoch.)
14 Since then they have not created, except that,
like the angels, they can remain upright and pure.
15 Nor could they die, which destroys everything,
has affected them;
16 But by this knowledge they perish, and by this
also their power consumes them.
17 The name of the fifth is Kasyad: he has
revealed to the sons of men every wicked blow of spirits
and demons:
18 The blow of the embryo in the womb, to
diminish it; the blow of the spirit by the bite of the serpent,
and the blow that is inflicted at noon by the offspring of the
serpent, whose name is Tabaet.
(The blow… to diminish it. Or, "the blow 'with
attack, aggression' to the embryo in the womb so that it is
aborted" - Knibb, p. 162; Tabaet. Literally, "male" or
"strong" - Knibb, p. 162).

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19 This is the number of Kasbel; the main part of
the oath that the Most High, dwelling in glory, revealed to
the holy ones.
20 His name is Beka. He spoke to holy Michael so
that he would reveal the sacred name to them, so that
they might understand the sacred name and thus
remember the oath; and so that those who have revealed
every secret thing to the sons of men might tremble at that
name and oath.
(I believe this text is also later than Enoch, post-
Mosaic, as evidenced by the emphasis on the name
Yahweh. A divine name that was only revealed to
humanity through Moses.)
21 This is the power of the oath; for it is powerful
and strong.
22 And this oath of Akae was established by the
instrumentality of holy Michael.
23 These are the secrets of this oath, and by it
they were confirmed.
24 The heavens were suspended by him before
the world was made, forever.

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25 By him the earth was flooded in the flood, while
from the hidden parts of the mountains the waters flowed,
from the creation to the end of the world.
26 By this oath the sea was formed and its
foundation.
27 During the period of this fury he established the
sand against it, which continues unchanging forever, and
by this oath the deep was made strong; it is not removed
from its station forever and ever.
28 By this oath the sun and the moon complete
their progress, never deviating from the command given to
them forever and ever.
(In primitive language, Enoch speaks of the orbits
that the sun and moon follow.)
29 By this oath the stars complete their progress,
30 And when their names are called, they will
return in response, forever and ever.
31 Then the blasts of the winds take place in the
heavens: they all have breath and perform a complete
combination of breaths.
(We must understand primitive language to
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Perhaps here Enoch is referring to the exchange of gases
that occurs in the atmosphere.)
32 There the treasures of thunder are kept and
the splendor of lightning.
33 There are stored the treasures of hail and mist,
the treasures of snow, the treasures of rain and dew.
(These treasures are daily revealed by science,
but much remains to be revealed.)
34 All these confess and praise before the YHWH
of spirits.
(When I was young I thought that all forms of life
are those that biology recognizes, but after I graduated in
biology and began to contemplate the cosmos in its
fullness, I think that celestial bodies are unconventional
living beings that do not fit the profile of life according to
traditional biology)
35 They glorify Him with all their power of
supplication; and He sustains them in all that act of
thanksgiving as they praise, glorify, and exalt the name of
the YHWH of spirits forever and ever.

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36 And with them He establishes this oath, by
which they and their ways are preserved, and their
progress does not perish.
37 Great was their joy.
38 They blessed, glorified, and exalted Him
because the name of the Son of Man was revealed to
them.
39 He sat upon the throne of His glory, and the
chief part of the judgment was appointed to Him, the Son
of Man. Sinners will perish and disappear from the face of
the earth, while those who deceived them will be bound
with chains forever.
(Bound in chains forever, this indicates that the
torment is eternal. The belief of Jehovah's Witnesses and
Adventists in the annihilation of the wicked does not match
the biblical framework and the Judeo-Christian apocalyptic
writings such as the Book of Enoch.)
40 According to their degrees of corruption, they
will be imprisoned, and all their works will disappear from
the face of the earth; from then on, there will be no one to
corrupt, for the Son of Man was seen seated on His throne
of glory.

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(Here we see that the condemnation of God's
judgment is individual and proportional; not all will suffer
equally in hell. Hell will keep the wicked isolated from the
other spiritual inhabitants of the universe.)
41 All iniquity will disappear and depart from
before His face; the word of the Son of Man will become
powerful in the presence of the YHWH of spirits.
42 This is the third parable of Enoch.

Chapter 69
1 After this, the name of the Son of Man, living
with the Lord of Spirits, was exalted among the inhabitants
of the earth.
(The Book of Enoch is essentially Christological.
There is much emphasis on the Messiah.)
2 He was exalted in the chariots of the Spirit, and
his name was among them.
3 From that time on, I was not torn away from
them; but He sat between two spirits, between the north
and the west, where the angels received their cords to
measure out the place for the elect and the righteous.

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4 There I saw the fathers of the first men and the
holy ones who dwell in that place forever.
Chapter 70

1 After this, my spirit was hidden, ascending to
heaven. I saw the sons of the holy angels walking in
flaming fire, whose garments and robes were white and
whose faces were transparent as crystal.
(This is the first description I've seen of children of
the holy angels. In fact, the Bible says that angels do not
marry, but they can have children by means other than
mating, for example, by cloning.)
2 I saw two rivers of fire shining like a hyacinth.
3 Then I fell facedown before the Lord of Spirits.
4 And Michael, one of the archangels, took me by
the right hand and lifted me up, and brought me to where
all the secret of mercy and righteousness was.
5 He showed me all the hidden things of the ends
of the heavens, all the receptacles of the stars and their
splendor, ever since they came forth from the face of the
Holy One.

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6 He hid the spirit of Enoch in the heaven of
heavens.

7 There I saw in the midst of that light a building
raised with stones of ice,
8 And in the midst of these stones I saw vibrations
of living fire. My spirit saw around the circle of this flaming
dwelling at one end; that there were rivers full of living fire,
which surrounded it.
(Vibrations. Literally, "tongues" - Laurence, p. 90).
9 Then the Seraphim, the Cherubim, and the
Ophanim (73) surrounded it: these are those who never
sleep, but watch over the throne of His glory.
(Ophanim. The "wheels" Ezekiel 1:15 -21 -
Charles, p. 162).
10 I saw innumerable angels, thousands upon
thousands, and myriads upon myriads, surrounding that
dwelling.
11 Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Phanuel, and the
holy angels who were in heaven above went and came
out of it. Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel came out of that
dwelling, and holy angels without number.

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12 With them was the Ancient of Days, whose
head was white as cotton and pure, and his robe was
indescribable.
13 Then I fell on my face while all my flesh was
dissolved, and my spirit became transformed.
14 I cried out with a loud voice with a mighty spirit,
blessing, glorifying, and exalting.
15 And those blessings that proceeded from my
mouth became acceptable in the presence of the Ancient
of Days.
16 The Ancient of Days came with Michael and
Gabriel, and Raphael and Phanuel, with thousands upon
thousands, and myriads upon myriads, which could not be
numbered.
17 Then that angel came to me, with his voice
saluted me, saying: You are the Son of Man, who was
born for righteousness, and righteousness has rested
upon you.
(Son of man. Laurence's original translation
changes this phrase to "offspring of man," Knibb - p. 166;
and Charles - p. 185 - indicate that it should be "Son of

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man" consistent with other occurrences of that term in the
book of Enoch.)
18 The righteousness of the Ancient of Days will
not forget you.
19 He said: In you He will bestow peace on behalf
of the existing world; therefore there has been peace
since the world was created.
20 And so it will be with you forever and ever.
21 All who will exist and walk in your ways of
righteousness will not forget you forever.
22 Their dwellings will be with you, their destiny
with you; they will not be separated from you forever and
ever.
23 And so the length of days will be with the Son
of Man. (Son of man. Literally, "offspring of man," or "the
Christ who comes from the offspring of man.")
24 Peace will be for the righteous, and the upright
will possess the way of integrity, in the name of the Lord of
spirits, forever and ever.

Chapter 71

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1 The book of the revolutions of the luminaries of
the heavens, according to their respective classes, their
respective powers, their respective periods, their
respective names, the places where they begin their
progress, and their respective months, which Uriel, the
holy angel who was with me, explained to me; he who
administers them. Their entire account according to the
exact year of the world forever, until a new work is
accomplished, which will be eternal.
(The Book of Enoch is considered a Kabbalistic
book and contains narratives that hint at the influence of
stars on life on earth.)
2 This is the first law of the luminaries. The sun
and light arrive at the gates that are to the east, to the
west, and to the west of it, at the western gates of heaven.
3 I saw the gates where the sun rises and the
gates where the sun sets,
(Enoch's exposition suggests the planetary view of
flat-earthers, that is, those who believe the earth is round.)
4 At whose gates also the moon rises and sets; I
saw the conductors of the stars, among those who

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precede them; six gates are in the rising, and six in the
setting of the sun.
5 All these, respectively, one after the other, are
level; and numerous windows are on the right and left
sides of these gates.
6 First advances that great luminary, which is
called the sun, whose orbit is the orbit of the heavens, and
its entire being is filled with splendid and flaming fire.
7 Its chariot, where it ascends, the wind blows.
8 The sun sets in the sky and returns from the
north to go toward the east, being thus driven as it enters
that gate and illuminates the face of the heavens. (Flat-
Earther view, not globalist. I think the influence of the
environment led the author astray. Globalist evidence
cannot be refuted by the childish superstitions of flat-
Earthers.)
9 In the same way, he leaves in the first month
through the great gate.
10 He leaves through the fourth of those six gates,
which are at the rising of the sun.
11 And in the fourth gate, through which the sun
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open windows from which flame issues when they are
open at their proper times.
(Twelve windows may refer to the 12 houses of
the zodiac.)
12 When the sun rises in the sky, he leaves
through this fourth gate for three days, and through the
fourth gate in the west of the sky at the level where he
sets.
13 During that period, the day is lengthened
during the day, and the night shortened during the night
for thirty days. And so the day is longer than the night by
two parts.
14 The day is precisely ten parts, and the night is
eight.
15 The sun rises through this fourth gate, sets
there, and returns to the fifth gate for thirty days, after
which it proceeds and sets there, the fifth gate.
16 Then the day becomes lengthened by a
second portion so that it is twelve parts, while the night
becomes shortened, and is only seven parts.

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17 The sun then returns eastward, entering the
sixth gate, and rises and sets in the sixth gate thirty-one
days, counting its signs.
18 During that period the day is longer than the
night, being twice as long as the night, and becomes
twelve parts;
19 But the night is shortened and becomes six
parts. Then the sun rises so that the day can be shortened
and the night lengthened.

(The ancient writers, as well as here in the Book
of Enoch, consider every astronomical concept from the
perspective of the earthly observer. The texts above refer
to the seasons in which the day is longer than the night in
summer and the opposite in winter. The simple language
and analogy of gateways should be understood by those
of us who are ahead of our time. Modern man is often very
harsh and likes to mock the men of the past, but we
should have reverence for those who went before us.
Remember, they didn't even have the internet.)

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20 And the sun returns to the east, entering
through the sixth gate, where it rises and sets for thirty
days.
21 When that period is completed, the day is
shortened by precisely one part, so that it is twelve parts,
while the night is seven parts.
22 Then the sun goes from the west, from that
sixth gate, and continues eastward, rising in the fifth gate
for thirty days and setting again in the west in the fifth gate
from the west.
23 At that time the day becomes two parts shorter,
and is ten parts, while the night is eight parts.
24 Then the sun goes from the fifth gate, while it
sets in the sixth gate from the west and rises in the fourth
gate for thirty-one days, according to its signs, setting in
the west.
25 At that time the day is made equal to the night,
and, being equal to it, the night becomes nine parts, and
the day nine parts.
26 Then the sun goes from that gate while it sets
in the west, and returning by the east, proceeds through

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the third gate for thirty days, setting in the west in the third
gate.
27 At that time the night is lengthened from the
day for thirty mornings, and the day is shortened from the
day for thirty days; the night being precisely ten parts, and
the day eight parts.
28 The sun then leaves the third gate, while it sets
in the third gate in the west, but returning to the east, it
proceeds through the second gate from the east for thirty
days.
29 Likewise, it also sets in the second gate in the
western direction of the sky.
30 At that time, the night is eleven parts, and the
day is seven parts.
31 Then the sun rises at that time through the
second gate, while it sets in the second gate in the west,
but returns to the east, continuing through the first gate,
for thirty-one days.
32 And it sets in the west in the first gate.
33 At that time, the night is again as long as the
day.

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34 It is precisely twelve parts, while the day is six
parts.
35 The sun thus completes its beginnings and
returns a second time from these beginnings.
36 It enters that first gate for thirty days and sets
in the west, facing the sky.
37 In that period, the night is shortened by a
quarter, that is, a portion, and becomes eleven parts.
38 The day is seven parts.
39 Then the sun returns and enters the second
gate to the east.
40 It returns through these beginnings for thirty
days, rising and setting.
41 In that period, the night is shortened in length.
It becomes ten parts, and the day eight parts. Then the
sun leaves the second gate and sets in the west; but
returns by the east and rises in the east, in the third gate,
thirty-one days, setting in the west of the sky.
42 In that period, the night becomes shortened; it
is nine parts. And the night is equal to the day. The year is
precisely three hundred and sixty-four days.

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(We can conclude that Enoch's chronological
notion of the time of a year was very well defined and
similar to ours, with little variation.)
43 The lengthening of day and night, and the
contraction of day and night, are made different from each
other by the progress of the sun.
44 By this progress the day is daily lengthened,
and the night greatly shortened.
45 This is the law and progress of the sun, and its
revolutions, when it returns, returning for sixty days, and
going onward. This is the great perpetual luminary, which
he calls the sun forever and ever.
46 This also is the great luminary, and which is
called according to its peculiar type, as God commanded.
47 And thus it goes in and out, neither slackening
nor resting, but running in its chariot day and night. It
shines with a seventh part of the light of the moon; but the
dimensions of both are equal.
(By stating that the dimensions of the moon and
the sun are the same, the Book of Enoch is obviously
making a false statement. Even though visually, from the
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size. It shines with…the moon. Or, "Its light is seven times
brighter than that of the moon" - Knibb, p. 171. The
Aramaic text more clearly describes how the moon's light
increases and decreases by half a seventh part each day.
Here in the Ethiopic version, the moon is considered to
have two halves, each half being divided into seven parts.
Hence, "fourteen portions" of 72:9-10 - Knibb, p. 171.)
Chapter 72
1 After this I saw another law, a lesser light,
whose name is the moon, and whose orbit is like the orbit
of the sky.
2 Its chariot, which ascends secretly, the wind
blows; and light is given to it by measure.
3 Each month, in its coming and going, it becomes
transformed; and its periods are like the periods of the
sun. And when its light is to exist, its light is a seventh part
of the light of the sun.
(And when it is to exist. That is, when the moon is
full - Knibb, p. 171. The light emitted by the sun is
incomparable to the light the moon emits on earth. While
the sun emits light, the moon actually reflects the light of
the sun. As we know, the Book of Enoch is not sacred, nor

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is it all divine revelation. We also do not know how many
insertions were made throughout history and who may
have added false claims to these astronomical texts.)

4 Thus it rises, and its beginning toward the east
goes out for thirty days.

5 At that time it appears, and becomes for you the
beginning of the month. Thirty days it is with the sun at the
gate from which the sun rises.

6 Half of it is in extension seven portions, a half;
and the whole of its orbit is without light, except a seventh
portion of fourteen portions of its light. And by day it
receives a seventh portion, or half of that portion, of its
light. Its light is by sevens, by a portion, and by half a
portion. Its sunsets with the sun.

7 And when the sun rises, the moon rises with it;
and receives half a portion of its light.

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8 On that night, when it begins its period, prior to
the day of the month, the moon sets with the sun.

9 And on that night it is dark in its fourteenth
portions, that is, in each half; But it rises on that day with
approximately a seventh portion, and in its progress it
declines from sunrise.
10 During the remainder of its period its light
increases by fourteen portions.
Chapter 73
1 Then I saw another progress and regulations
that He made in the law of the moon. The progress of the
moons, and everything related to it, Uriel, the holy angel
who administers them all, showed me.
2 I wrote down its seasons as he showed them to
me.
3 I wrote down your months, how they occur, and
the appearance of their light, until it is completed in fifteen
days.
4 In each of its two-seventh portions it completes
its full light by rising and setting.

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5 In certain months it changes its twilights; and in
certain months it makes its progress through each gate. In
two gates the moon sets with the sun. In those two gates
that are in the middle, in the third and in the fourth gates.
From the third gate it goes out for seven days and makes
its circuit.
6 Again it returns to the gate from which the sun
rises, and in that it completes all its light. Then it declines
from the sun and enters the sixth gate for eight days, and
returns in seven days to the third gate, where the sun
rises.
7 When the sun proceeds to the fourth gate, the
moon goes out for seven days, until it passes the fifth
gate.
8 Again it returns in seven days to the fourth gate,
and completing all its light, it declines and passes through
the first gate in eight days;
9 And it returns in seven days to the fourth gate,
from which the sun rises.
10 Thus I saw its seasons, how according to the
fixed order of the months the sun rises and sets.

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11 In these times there is an excess of thirty days
belonging to the sun in five years; all the days belonging
to each year of five years, when completed, amount to
three hundred and sixty-four days; and to the sun and the
stars; of them in each of the five years; thus thirty days
belong to them;
12 So the moon has thirty days less than the sun
and the stars.
13 The moon brings every year exactly, so that its
seasons may come neither too far ahead nor too far back
a single day, but that the years may be changed with
correct precision in the three hundred and sixty-four days.
In three years the days are one thousand ninety-two; in
five years they are one thousand eight hundred and
twenty; and in eight years two thousand nine hundred and
twenty days.
(I suspect that this part of the book that talks so
much about astronomy is an insertion. It is pure
speculation on my part, but I do not see why Enoch would
stop talking about his true message about the angels and
the pre-Flood days and start talking about astronomy
according to this outdated view of the cosmos.)

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14 For the moon, only one thousand sixty-two
days corresponds in three years; in five years it has fifty
days less than the sun, for an addition being made to one
thousand and sixty-two days, in five years there are one
thousand seven hundred and seventy days; and the days
of the moon in eight years are two thousand eight hundred
and thirty-two days
15 For their days in eight years are less than
those of the sun by eighty days, which eighty days are its
decrease in eight years.
16 The year then becomes truly complete
according to the season of the moon, and the season of
the sun; which rises at different gates; which rises and
sets in them in thirty days.
Chapter 74
1 These are the leaders of the chiefs of
thousands, who preside over all creation, and over all the
stars; with the four days that are added and never
separate from their assigned place, according to the
complete calculation of the year.
2 And these serve four days, which are not
counted in the calculation of the year.

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3 Concerning them, men greatly err, for these
luminaries truly serve, in the dwelling place of the world,
one day in the first gate, one day in the third gate, one day
in the fourth gate, and one day in the sixth gate.
4 And the harmony of the world becomes
complete in every three hundred and sixty-four states of it.
For the signs.
5 The seasons,
6 The years,
7 And Uriel showed me the days, the angel whom
the Lord of glory chose above all the luminaries.
8 From heaven to heaven, and in the world; that
he might rule on the face of the sky, and appearing on the
earth, they become 9 Conductors of the days and nights:
the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the luminaries of the
sky, which make their circuit with all the chariots of the
sky.
10 Then Uriel showed me twelve gates open to
the circuit of the sun's chariots in the sky, into which the
sun's rays beat.
11 From them proceeds heat upon the earth,
when they are opened in their appointed seasons. They

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are for the winds, and the spirit of the mist, when in their
seasons they are opened; opened in the sky at their
extremities.

12 I saw twelve gates in heaven, at the ends of
the earth, through which the sun, moon, and stars, and all
the works of heaven, proceed in their rising and in their
setting.
13 Many windows are also open on the right and
on the left.
14 A window in a certain season becomes
extremely hot. So too are gates from which the stars come
out when they are commanded, and in which they set
according to their number.
(Even today, people do not understand all the
intricacies of climatology, despite technological
developments, much less could they explain to ancient
men how the system that makes summers hot works.
Surely someone invented this part of the book to impose
their vision of the world as something of divine origin. I
cannot believe the parts of the Book of Enoch when it
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do not hold science as a dogma, especially since its
concepts are reevaluated and constantly altered from time
to time, but this vision of a “little door,” a “little window”
through which the stars pass in the celestial dome cannot
prosper in the mind of a wise man.)
15 I also saw the chariots of heaven, running
through the world above those gates in which the stars
move, which never set. One of them is the greatest of all,
which goes around the whole world.
Chapter 75
1 And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve gates
open to all the winds, from which they come and blow
upon the earth. Earth.
(Another aberration in the scientific language of
the book trying to explain the origin of the wind.)
2 Three of them face the sky: three in the west,
three on the right side of the sky, and three on the left.
The first three face east, three face north, three behind
those on the left, facing south, and three face west.
3 From four of them come winds of blessing and
healing; and from eight come winds of punishment, or
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the sky above it, all its inhabitants, and everything in the
waters, or on dry land.
4 The first of these winds comes from the eastern
gate, through the first gate to the east, which slopes south.
From this gate come destruction, drought, heat, and
perdition.
5 From the second gate, the middle one, comes
justice. From it come rain, abundance, health, and dew;
and from the third gate to the north come cold and
drought.
6 After these come the south winds through three
main gates; through their first gate, which faces east,
comes a hot wind.
7 But from the middle gate comes a pleasant
aroma, dew, rain, health, and life.
8 From the third gate, which faces west, comes
dew, rain, destruction, and destruction.
9 After these come the north winds, which is
called the sea. They come from the three gates. The first
gate is the one facing east, facing south; from it come
dew, rain, destruction, and destruction. Directly from the
middle gate comes rain, dew, life, and health. And from

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the third gate, which faces east, facing south, comes mist,
frost, snow, rain, dew, and destruction. (No matter how
hard I try, I can't even give a symbolic explanation for
these astronomical and climatic passages. I think these
statements are false. Not to spiritualize such bizarre
teachings as these...)
10 After these, in the fourth quarter are the west
winds. From the first gate, inclining to the north, come
dew, rain, frost, snow, and cold; from the middle gate
come rain, health, and blessing;
11 And from the last gate, which is to the south,
come drought, destruction, burning, and perdition.
12 The account of the twelve gates of the four
quarters of heaven is finished.
13 All their laws, all their inflictions of punishment,
and the health produced by them, I have explained to you,
my son Methuselah.
(Methuselah. Son of Enoch, Cp. Gen. 5:21.)
Chapter 76
1 The first wind is called the east because it is the
first.

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2 The second is called the south, because the
Most High descends, and often there descends the one
who is blessed forever.
3 The west wind is called diminution, because
there all the luminaries of the sky are diminished and
descend.
4 The fourth gate, whose name is the north, is
divided into three parts: one of which is for human
habitation; another part for seas of water, with valleys,
woods, rivers, shadowy places, and snow; and the third
part contains paradise.
5 I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the
mountains of the earth, from which frost proceeds; while
the days, seasons, and years pass.
6 I saw seven rivers upon the earth, greater than
all the rivers, one of which takes its course from the west;
to a great sea its waters flow.

7 Two come from the north to the sea, and their
waters flow into the Erythraean Sea in the east. And as for
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north, two to their sea, the Erythraean Sea, and two are
poured into a great sea, which is also said to be a desert.
(Where is the Amazon River? The largest river in
the world?? It is obvious that the geographical part of the
book is false. Indeed, the Holy Spirit led the Church and
the council of the elders of Israel not to admit this book
into the biblical canon; the entire Bible would be
irremediably doomed to ridicule.)
8 Seven great islands I saw in the sea of the
earth. Seven in the great sea.
Chapter 77
1 The names of the sun are these: one is Aryares,
the other Tomas.
2 The moon has four names. The first is Asonya;
the second, Ebla; the third, Benase; and the fourth, Erae.
3 These are the two great luminaries, whose
orbits are like the orbits of the sky; and the dimensions of
both are equal.
(E laia... sun the size of the moon...)
4 In the sun's orbit there is a seventh portion of
light, which is added to that which comes from the moon.
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and through the eastern gate pass across the face of the
sky.
5 When the moon rises, it appears in the sky; and
half of the seventh portion of light is all that is in it.
6 In forty days its full light is completed.
7 By three fivefold light is placed in it, until in
fifteen days its light is completed, according to the signs of
the year; it has three fivefold.
8 The moon has half of a seventh portion.
9 During its waning on the first day, its light
decreases by a fourteenth part; On the second day it is
diminished by a thirteenth part; on the third day by a
twelfth part; on the fourth day by an eleventh part; on the
fifth day by a tenth part; on the sixth day by a ninth part;
on the seventh day it decreases by an eighth part; on the
eighth day it decreases by a seventh part; on the ninth day
it decreases by a sixth part; on the tenth day it decreases
by a fifth part; on the eleventh day it decreases by a fourth
part; on the twelfth day it decreases by a third part; on the
thirteenth day it decreases by a second part; on the
fourteenth day it decreases by half a seventh part; and on
the fifteenth day all the remaining light is consumed.

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10 In the months stated the moon has twenty-nine
days.
11 It also has a period of twenty-eight days.
12 Uriel also showed me another regulation, when
light is poured on it from the sun.

13 All the time the moon is in progress with its
light, which is consumed in the presence of the sun, until
its light in fourteen days is completed in the sky.
14 And when it is completely extinguished, its light
is consumed in the sky; and on the first day it is called a
new moon, because on that day light is received into it.
15 It becomes precisely complete on the day the
sun sets in the west, while the moon rises in the evening
in the east.
16 The moon then shines all night, until the sun
rises before it; when the moon disappears before the sun.

17 From where the light comes to the moon, there
again it decreases, until all its light is extinguished, and
the moon's days pass.
18 Then its orbit remains lonely without light.

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19 For three months it performs in thirty days,
each month its period; and for another three months it
performs it in twenty-nine days. These are the times in
which it performs its decrease in its first period, and in the
first gate, namely, one hundred and seventy-seven days.
20 And in the time of its progress for three months
it appears thirty days each, and for another three months it
appears twenty-nine days each.
21 At night it appears every twenty days like the
face of a man, and in the day like the sky; for it is nothing
but its light.
Chapter 78
1 And now, my son Methuselah, I have shown you
everything; and the account of every order of the stars of
heaven is finished.

2 He showed me every decree concerning them,
which takes place at all times and in all seasons under
each influence, in all years, at the arrival and under the
rule of each, during each month and each week. He also
showed me the waning of the moon, which is effected in
the sixth gate; for in that sixth gate its light is consumed.

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3 And there is the beginning of the month; and its
waning is effected in the sixth gate in its period, until one
hundred and seventy-seven days are completed;
according to the mode of reckoning by weeks, twenty-five
weeks and two days.
4 Their periods are less than those of the sun,
according to the rule of the stars, by five days in half a
year precisely.
5 When that visible situation of theirs is
completed. Such is the appearance and the likeness of
every luminary, which Uriel, the great angel who guides
them, showed me.
Chapter 79
1 In those days Uriel answered me and said: I
have shown you all things, O Enoch;
(From chapter 79 onward, the Book of Enoch
returns to writing about the pre-Flood days and has
stopped talking about astronomy, climatology, and
aberrant geography.)
2 And I have revealed all things to you. You saw
the sun, the moon, and those who guide the stars of

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heaven, who cause all their operations, seasons, and
arrivals for return.
3 In the days of sinners the years will be
shortened.
4 Their seed will be set back in their prolific soil;
and everything that is done on earth will be overthrown,
and they will disappear in their seasons. The rain will be
restricted, and the sky will remain still.
5 In those days the fruits of the earth will be late,
and will not blossom in their season; and in their season
the fruit of the trees will be withheld.
6 The moon will change its laws, and will not be
seen in its period. But in those days the sky will be seen;
and barrenness will take place on the borders of the great
chariots in the west. The sky will shine brighter than when
illuminated by the command of the light; while many chief
among the stars of authority will err, perverting their ways
and works.
7 They will not appear in their appointed season,
and all the classes of stars will be shut against sinners.

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8 The thoughts of those who dwell on earth will be
corrupted within them, and they will be corrupted in all
their ways.
9 They will be corrupted and set themselves up as
gods, while evil will multiply among them.
10 And punishment will come upon them, so that
they will all be destroyed.
Chapter 80

1 He said: O Enoch, look in the book that heaven
has gradually poured out; and, reading what is written in it,
understand every part of it.
2 Then I looked in all that is written, and I
understood everything, reading the book and all the things
written in it, and I understood everything, all the works of
man;
3 And of all the children of flesh upon the earth,
throughout the generations of the world.
4 Immediately afterward I saw the Lord, the King
of glory, who has thus forever been the Ruler of all
creation.

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5 And I glorified the LORD because of his
patience and blessings toward the children of the world.
6 At that time I said, "Blessed is the man who dies
righteous and good, against whom no record of crime is
written, and in whom no iniquity is found."
7 Then those three holy ones brought me near
and set me down on the ground at the door of my house.
8 And they said to me, "Explain everything to your
son Methuselah, and inform all your children, that no flesh
will be justified before the LORD, for He is their Creator.
9 For one year we will leave you with your
children, until you have regained your strength, so that
you may instruct your family. Write these things and
explain them to your children. But in another year you will
be taken from among them, and their hearts will be
strengthened, for the elect will point out righteousness to
other elect; The righteous will rejoice with the righteous,
rejoicing one another, but sinners with sinners will die,
10 And the wicked with the wicked will be
drowned.

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(The flood was foretold by Enoch, so the end of
that generation in a global climate disaster of
unimaginable proportions was already predicted.)
11 Those who have acted righteously will also die
because of the works of men, and they will be gathered
because of the works of the wicked.
12 In those days they finished speaking with me.
13 And I returned to my companions, blessing the
Lord of the worlds.
Chapter 81
1 Now, my son Methuselah, I have spoken all
these things to you, and I have written them down to you. I
have revealed everything to you, and I have given you the
books of everything.

(Enoch implies that this book was passed on to
Methuselah to preserve this book for future generations.)
2 Preserve, my son Methuselah, the books written
by your father; that you may reveal them to future
generations.
3 I have given wisdom to you, to your children,
and to your posterity, so that they may reveal to their

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children, for generations forever, this wisdom in their
words; and that those who understand will not linger, but
will hear with their ears; that they may learn wisdom, and
be considered worthy to eat this wholesome food.
4 Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all
who walk uprightly, in whom no sin is found, as in sinners,
when all their days are numbered.
5 As for the progress of the sun in the sky, it
enters and leaves each gate for thirty days, with the
leaders of thousands of stars; with four that are added,
and appear in the four quarters of the year, which lead us,
and accompany us in their four periods.

6 Concerning them, men greatly err, and do not
calculate them in the calculations of each age; for they
greatly err concerning them; men know accurately what
they are in the calculation of the year. But surely they are
marked less forever: one in the first gate, one in the third,
one in the fourth, and one in the sixth: 7 So that the year is
completed in three hundred and sixty-four days.
8 Truly it has been declared, and accurately has
been calculated what is marked; for the luminaries, the

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months, the fixed periods, the years, and the days, Uriel
explained to me, and communicated to me; whom the
YHWH of all creation, for my sake, commanded,
(according to the power of heaven, and the power that he
possesses both by day and by night) to explain the laws of
light to man, of the sun, the moon, and the stars, and of all
the power of heaven, which is turned in its respective
orbits. (It is not credible that God gave Enoch the mission
to explain astronomy to men, especially with these
concepts.)
9 This is the order of the stars, which set in their
places, in their seasons, in their periods, in their days, and
in their months.
10 These are the names of those who lead them,
who watch and enter their stations according to their
ordinances and their periods, in their months, in the times
of their influence, and in their seasons.
11 Four leaders of them enter first, who separate
the four quarters of the year. After them, twelve leaders of
their classes, who separate the months and the year into
three hundred and sixty-four days, with leaders of a
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between the additional four; who, as leaders, divide the
four quarters of the year.
(Leaders of a thousand, perhaps a reference to
the second. Perhaps there is a kind of life in time itself.
The truth is that our scientific knowledge is still negligible
in understanding and explaining the various forms of life
that God created in the universe.)
12 These leaders of a thousand are in the midst of
the leaders, and the leaders are added behind their
station, and their leaders make the separation. These are
the names of the leaders, who separate the four quarters
of the year, who are chosen over them: Melkel,
Helammelak,
13 Meliyal, and Narel.
14 And the names of those who lead them are
Adnarel, Jyasusal, and Jyelumeal.
15 These are the three who follow the leaders of
the classes of stars; each following the three leaders of
classes, who follow those leaders of the seasons, who
divide the four quarters of the year.
16 In the first part of the year Melkyas, who is
called Tamani, and Zahay, rise and rule.

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(Tamani, and Zahay. Or, "the sun of the south" -
Knibb, p. 190).
17 All the days of his influence, during which he
rules, are ninety-one days.
18 And these are the signs of the days that are
seen upon the earth. In the days of his influence there is
perspiration, heat, and hardship. All the trees become
fruitful; the leaves of every tree appear; the corn is
gathered; the rose and all kinds of flowers bloom in the
field; and the winter trees are withered.
(We see that the book attempts to explain the
influences of space on agriculture. We know that
extraterrestrial factors greatly influence the climatic
conditions of the earth. It is the tilt of the planet's axis and
the approach of the sun that establishes the seasons.
We also know that plants are highly influenced by
the weather. As a general rule, most plants produce fruit in
summer, and in winter they go dormant, even their leaves
falling off.
19 These are the names of the leaders under
them: Barkel, Zelsabel; and another leader of a thousand
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completed. The other leader after them is Helemmelek,
whose name they call the splendid Zahay.
(Zahay. Or, "sun" - Knibb, p. 191).
20 All the days of his light are ninety-one days.
21 These are the signs of the days on earth: heat
and drought; while the trees bear their fruit, heated and
prepared, and yield their fruit for drought.
22 The flocks follow and breed. All the fruits of the
earth are gathered, with everything in the fields, and the
vineyards are trodden. This happens during the time of his
influence.
(They follow and create. They mate and give
birth.)
23 These are their names and orders, and the
names of the leaders who are under them, those who are
commanders of thousands: Gedaeyal, Keel, Heel.
24 And the name of the additional commander of
thousands is Asphael.
25 The days of his influence are complete.
Chapter 82
1 And now I have shown you, my son Methuselah,
every vision I saw before you were born. I will relate

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another vision, which I saw before I was married; they
resemble one another.
2 The first was when I was learning from a book;
and the other was when I was married to your mother. I
saw a powerful vision;
3 And because of these things I pleaded with the
Lord.
4 I was lying down in the house of my grandfather
Mahalalel, when I saw in a vision the heavens being
purified, and being taken away. 5 And falling to the earth, I
also saw the earth swallowed up by a great abyss, and
mountains suspended upon mountains.
6 Mountains were sunk upon hills, towering trees
hovered upon their trunks, and were in the act of being
thrown down, and hurled into the abyss.
7 Being alarmed by these things, my voice
faltered. I cried out and said, "The earth is destroyed."
Then my grandfather Mahalalel stood up and said to me,
"Why do you cry out, my son? And why do you lament?"
(My voice faltered. Literally, "the word fell from my
mouth" - Laurence, p. 118).

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8 I related to him the whole vision that I had seen.
He said to me, "What you have seen is confirmed, my son;
9 And the vision of your dream is powerful
concerning all the secret sin of the earth. Its substance will
be submerged in the abyss, and great destruction will
occur.
10 Now, my son, arise; and plead with the LORD
of glory (for you are faithful), that a remnant may be left on
earth, and that he may not utterly destroy it. My son, all
this calamity upon the earth will descend from heaven;
upon the earth there will be great destruction.
11 Then I arose, prayed, and begged; and I wrote
my prayer for the generations of the world, explaining
everything to my son Methuselah.
12 When I descended below, and looking toward
the sky, I saw the sun rising from the east, the moon
descending from the west, and some stars scattered
about, and all that God has known from the beginning, I
blessed the LORD of judgment, and magnified him: for he
has sent the sun from the chambers of the east; that,
ascending and rising in the face of the sky, it may grow
and follow the path that was appointed for it.

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Chapter 83
1 I lifted up my hands in righteousness and
blessed the Holy One, the Great One. I spoke with the
breath of my mouth and with the tongue of flesh, which
God had formed for all the children of mortal men, so that
they might speak; giving them breath, mouth, and tongue
to speak.
2 Blessed are you, O YHWH, the King, great and
mighty in your greatness, YHWH of every creature in
heaven, King of kings, God of all the world, whose reign,
and whose kingdom, and whose majesty endure forever
and ever.
3 From generation to generation your dominion
will endure. All the heavens are your throne forever, and
all the earth your footstool forever and ever.
4 For you made them, and you reign over them
all. No act exceeds your power. By your wisdom you are
immutable, neither from your throne nor from your
presence does it ever depart. You know all things, you see
and hear them; Nothing is hidden from you, for you
perceive all things.

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5 The angels of your heavens have transgressed,
and in mortal flesh your wrath remains, until the day of the
great judgment.
6 Therefore, O God, YHWH and mighty King, I
implore you, and I beseech you, to answer my prayer, so
that a posterity may be left for me on earth, and that the
whole human race may not perish;
(Enoch makes the foolish request that his
descendants remain on earth... it would be good if the
human tragedy ended soon; with each generation the pain
prolongs and the errors of our human nature are
accentuated. But God answered Enoch's prayer because
in his divine plan, God would still lead humanity to his
plan, which included the incarnation of God to die on the
cross.)
7 So that the earth will not be left destitute, and
destruction will take place forever.
8 O my YHWH, may the race that has offended
You perish from the earth, but may You establish a just
and upright race for a posterity forever. Do not hide Your
face, O YHWH, from the prayer of Your servant.

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(For a posterity. Literally "for the plant of a seed" -
Laurence, p. 121).
Chapter 84
1 After this I saw another dream, and I explained it
all to you, my son. Enoch arose and said to his son
Methuselah: To you, my son, I will speak. Hear my word,
and incline your ear to the visionary dream of your father.
Before I had married Edna, your mother, I saw a vision on
my bed;
(This second vision of Enoch seems to represent
in symbolic language the complete history of the world
from the time of Adam until the final judgment and the
establishment of the Messianic Kingdom. - Charles, p.
227).
2 And I saw a cow growing out of the ground;
3 And this cow was white.
4 After this a female heifer grew up; and with her
another calf: One of them was black, and the other was
red.
(Another calf. The sense seems to require that the
passage should read: "two other calves" - Laurence, p.
121.- Cain and Abel).

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5 The black calf then struck the red calf and
chased it across the land.
6 From that time on I could not see anything more
about the red calf; but the black calf grew in size, and a
female heifer came with it.
7 After this I saw many cows proceeding to it and
following after it.
8 The first young cow also went out from the
presence of the first cow and looked for the red calf, but
did not find it.
9 And she lamented with great lamentation as she
searched for it.
10 Then I watched until that first cow came to her,
and from that time on, she became silent and stopped
lamenting.
11 After that, she calved another white cow.
12 And again she calved many black cows and
calves.
13 In my dream I also saw a white bull, which
likewise grew and became a huge animal.
14 After him came many white cows, joining him.

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15 And they began to calve, many other white
cows, which resembled them and followed one another.
Chapter 85

1 Again I looked intently, while sleeping, and
scanned the sky above.
2 And I saw a star fall from the sky.
3 Which, being raised, ate, and fled from among
those cows.
4 After this I saw other large, black cows; and I
saw all of them change their stalls and pastures, and I saw
their young begin to mourn one another. Again I saw in my
vision, and scanned the sky; then I saw many stars
descending, and projecting themselves from the sky to
where the first star was,
5 In the midst of these young ones; while the cows
were with them, feeding among them.
6 I looked and observed them; When I looked,
they all behaved like horses and began to approach the
young cows, and they all became pregnant and gave birth
to elephants, camels, and donkeys.

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7 At this, all the cows were alarmed and terrified;
they began to bite with their six teeth, swallowing and
striking with their horns.
8 They also began to devour the cows; and I saw
all the sons of the earth tremble, shocked by their terror,
and suddenly fled.
Chapter 86
1 Again I perceived them, as they began to bite
and devour one another; and the earth cried out. Then I
raised my eyes a second time toward heaven, and I saw
in a vision, behold, one came from heaven as if it were the
appearance of white men. One came, and three with him.
2 Those three, who came last, took me by the
hand; and they lifted me up from the generations of the
earth, they raised me to a high station.
3 Then they showed me a lofty tower on the earth,
while every mountain became small. And they said, "Stay
here until you see what will happen to these elephants,
camels, and donkeys, to the stars, and to the cows."

Chapter 87

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1 Then I looked at one of the four white men, who
came first.
2 He caught hold of the first star that fell from the
sky.
3 And tying it hand and foot, he threw it into a
valley—a narrow, deep, stupendous, and dark valley.
4 Then one of them drew his sword and gave it to
the elephants, camels, and donkeys, who began to bite
one another. And the whole earth trembled because of
them.
5 And while I was watching the vision, behold, one
of those four angels who came, cast down from heaven,
gathered and touched all the great stars, whose shape
partly resembled that of horses; and tying them all hand
and foot, he threw them into the cavities of the earth.
Chapter 88
1 Then one of those four went to the white cows
and taught them a mystery. While the cows were
trembling, he was born and became a man, and made
himself a great boat. He dwelt there, and three cows dwelt
with him in the boat, which covered them.
(9 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.)

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2 Again I raised my eyes to the sky and saw a
large roof. Above it were seven waterfalls, which poured
down a large amount of water into a certain village.
3 Again I looked and saw that there were springs
open on the ground in that large village.
4 The water began to boil and rise above the
earth; so that the village could not be seen, while all the
ground was covered with water.
5 Much water came out of it, darkness, and
clouds. Then I examined the height of this water, and it
was high above the village.
6 It flowed over the village and became higher
than the land.
7 Then all the cows that were there together, while
I was looking at them, were submerged, swallowed up,
and destroyed in the water.
8 But the boat floated on top of it. All the cows, the
elephants, the camels, and the years were drowned in the
earth, and all the livestock. I could not see them. Nor were
they able to flee, but perished, and sank into the abyss.

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9 Again I saw on a mission until those waterfalls
were removed from that high roof, and the springs of the
earth became equalized, while other depths were opened;
10 To which the waters began to descend, until
dry land appeared.
11 The boat remained on the earth; the darkness
receded; and it became light.
12 Then the white cow, which became a man,
came out of the boat, and three cows with it.
(We see the story being portrayed from Adam to
Noah through fable, in which men are portrayed as
animals.)
13 One of the three cows was white, resembling
that cow; one of them was red as blood; and one of them
was black. And the white cow left them.

14 Then wild beasts and birds began to appear.
15 Of all these different kinds gathered together:
lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, wild boars, foxes, rabbits, and
pigs.
16 Owls, ravens, and kites.
17 Then a white cow was born among them.

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(Abraham.)
18 And they began to bite one another, while the
white cow, which had been born among them, brought
forth a wild donkey and a white cow at the same time, and
after that many wild donkeys. Then the white cow, (1)
which was born, gave birth to a wild black sow and a white
lamb (2).
(1) Isaac. (2) Esau and Jacob.
19 That wild sow also gave birth to many swine.
20 And that lamb gave birth to twelve lambs.
(The twelve patriarchs.)
21 When those twelve lambs grew up, they gave
one of them to the donkeys.
(Joseph. [a] The Midianites.)
22 Again those donkeys gave that lamb to the
wolves,
(The Egyptians.)
23 And it grew among them. 24 Then the LORD
brought the other twelve sheep, so that they could live and
feed with him among the wolves.
25 They multiplied, and there was plenty of
pasture for them.

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26 But the wolves became frightened and
oppressed them, destroying their young.
27 And they left their young in deep streams.
28 Then the sheep began to cry out for their
young, and fled for refuge to their LORD. One, however,
was saved, escaped and went to the wild donkeys.
(Moses was the Hebrew who escaped the
slaughter.)
29 I saw the sheep groaning, crying, and begging
their LORD.
30 With all their might, until the LORD of the
sheep came down from his high place at their voice; he
came to them and examined them.
31 He called the sheep that had been secretly
stolen from the wolves and told it to make the wolves
understand that they should not touch the sheep.
32 So that sheep went to the wolves with the word
of the LORD, and another found it and stayed with it.
(Aaron.)
33 They both went together into the wolves' den,
and talking with them, they made them understand that
from then on they should not touch the sheep.

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34 After this I saw the wolves overwhelming the
sheep with all their might. The flock cried out, and their
LORD came to them.
35 He began to attack the wolves, and they began
a loud lamentation; but the sheep remained silent, not
even crying out.
36 Then I watched them until they turned away
from the wolves. The wolves' eyes were blinded, and they
went out and followed them with all their might. But the
LORD of the sheep continued with them and led them.
37 All his flock followed him.
38 His countenance became terrifying and
magnificent, and his appearance was glorious. Then the
wolves began to pursue the sheep until they overtook
them at a certain pool of water.
(The Red Sea.)
39 Then the lake was divided, the water rising up
on both sides before them.
40 And while their Lord was leading them, he
placed himself between them and the wolves.

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41 The wolves, however, did not notice the sheep,
but went in the middle of the lake, following them, and
chasing them in the lake of water.
42 But when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they
turned back to flee from his face.
43 Then the water of the lake returned, and
suddenly, according to its nature. It became full, and rose
up, until it covered the wolves. And I saw that all those
who had followed the sheep perished and were drowned.
44 But the sheep passed over this water,
continuing on to the wilderness, which was without water
and grass. And they began to open their eyes and see.
45 Then I saw the Lord of the sheep examining
them and giving them water and grass.
46 The sheep mentioned above were with them
and leading them.
47 And when he had climbed to the top of a high
rock, the Lord of the sheep sent him to them.
48 After this I saw their Lord standing before
them, with a terrible and severe appearance.
49 And when they saw him, they were terrified at
his countenance.

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50 All of them were alarmed and trembled. They
cried out to that sheep, and to the other sheep that was
with him, and who was among them, saying, "We are able
to stand before our Lord, or to look at him."
51 Then the sheep that led them went out and
climbed to the top of the rock;
52 While the sheep that remained began to go
blind and wander along the path he had shown them, but
he did not know it.
53 But their Lord was very angry with them; and
when that sheep learned what had happened,
(This fable tells how Moses went up Mount Sinai
and the people were corrupting themselves below.)
54 He came down from the top of the rock and
came to them. He found that there were many,
55 Who had become blind;
56 And had strayed from their way. As soon as
they saw him, they were afraid and trembled at his
presence;
57 And they were eager to return to their flock.
58 Then that sheep took another sheep with him
and went to those who had gone astray.

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59 And afterward he began to kill them. They were
displeased at his countenance. Then he brought back
those who had strayed, and they returned to their flock.
60 I also saw in that vision that this sheep became
a man, built a house for the Lord of the flock, and made all
of them stay in the house. (a) A house. A tabernacle.
61 I also saw that the sheep that went to meet this
sheep, its leader, died. I also saw that every large sheep
perished, while the smaller ones went up in their place,
entered a pasture, and approached a river of water.
(The Jordan River.)
62 Then that sheep, its leader, who had become a
man, was separated from them and died.

63 The whole flock sought him and cried out to
him with bitter lamentation.
64 I also saw that they stopped crying out for that
sheep and passed over the river of water.
65 And there arose another sheep, all of whom
led them, instead of those who were killed, who had
previously led them.
(a) The judges of Israel.

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66 Then I saw that that sheep entered a pleasant
place, and a delightful and glorious territory.
(Canaan)
67 I also saw that they were satisfied; that their
home was in the midst of that delightful territory; and that
sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes they
were blind; until another sheep arose and led them. He
brought them all back; and their eyes were opened.
(Samuel.)
68 Then dogs, wolves, and wild boars devoured
them, until again another sheep arose, the master of the
flock; one of their own, a ram, to lead them. This ram
began to gore all the dogs, wolves, and wild boars
everywhere, until they all perished.
(Saul. It's clear that the Book of Enoch likely
underwent these insertions, telling the story of Israel
through fables. Knowing human nature, it's difficult to
believe the entire Book of Enoch. There's even the
possibility that the entire narrative of the book is based on
oral traditions about the antediluvian period, and later,
parts such as astronomy or astrology were added to this
narrative of Israel's history.)

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69 His eyes, and I saw the ram in the midst of
them, who had laid aside their glory.
70 And he began to strike the flock, trampling on
them, and behaving disgracefully.
71 Then their Lord sent the former sheep again to
a different sheep, and raised him up to be a ram, and to
lead them in place of the sheep that had laid aside its
glory.
(This difference between sheep and David refers
to David.)
72 So he went to him and talked with him alone.
He raised up the ram and made him a prince and leader of
the flock. All the while those dogs annoyed the sheep.
(The dogs mentioned are the Philistines.)
73 The first ram paid respect to this last ram.
74 Then the last ram arose and fled from his face.
And I saw that those dogs made the first ram fall.
75 But the last ram arose and drove the smaller
ram.
76 That ram also fathered many sheep and died.
77 Then a smaller sheep, a ram, took his place,
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(This smaller ram is Solomon.)
78 And the sheep increased in size and multiplied.
79 And all the dogs, wolves, and wild boars were
afraid and fled from him. 80 That ram also struck and
killed all the wild animals, so that they could no longer
prevail among the sheep or take them away at any time.
81 And that house was made large and wide, with
a tower built on it by the sheep, for the Lord of the sheep.
82 The house was low, but the tower was lofty
and very high.
83 Then the Lord of the sheep stood on the tower
and brought a full table before him.
84 Again I saw that the sheep had gone astray
and had gone its own way, forgetting its home.
(Solomon had strayed from God's ways.)
85 And his Lord called some among them, and he
sent them to them.
(These sent ones were the prophets.)
86 But the sheep began to kill them. And when
one of them was saved from the slaughter, he leaped up
and cried out against those who were eager to kill them.
(Elijah the prophet saved from the slaughter.)

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87 But the Lord of the sheep rescued him from
their hands and brought him up to him and remained with
him.
88 He sent many others to them to testify and to
cry out against them with lamentation. 89 Again I saw,
when some of them forgot the house of their Lord and his
tower, wandering everywhere, and growing blind,
90 I saw that the Lord of the sheep made a great
slaughter among them in their pastures, until they cried
out to him because of the slaughter. Then he removed
them from their place of habitation, and left them in the
power of lions, tigers, wolves, and zeebt, and in the power
of foxes, and of every beast.
(Zeebt should be Hyena - Knibb, p. 209).
91 And the wild animals began to tear them apart.
92 I also saw that they forgot the house of their
fathers and their tower, giving them all into the power of
lions to tear and devour them, even into the power of
every beast.
93 Then I began to cry out with all my might,
imploring the LORD of the sheep, and showing him how
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94 But he looked on in silence, rejoicing that they
were devoured, swallowed, and carried away, and leaving
them to the power of every beast for food. He also called
seventy shepherds and appointed them over the sheep,
so that they might tend them;
95 Saying to them and to their associates, "All of
you, from now on, all of you must tend the sheep, and I
command you all; do so; and I will give you to number
them.
96 I will tell you which of them will be killed;
destroy these." And he gave the sheep to them.
97 Then he called another and said, "Understand
and observe everything the shepherds will do to these
sheep, for many of them will perish after I have given the
order."
98 Of all the excess and slaughter that the
shepherds commit, there will be an account; as, how
many perished by my command, and how many they
destroyed by their own hands.
99 Of all the destruction brought by each of the
shepherds there will be an account; and according to the
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many they destroyed by their own hands, and how many
they consigned to destruction, that I may have this
testimony against them; that I may know all their dealings;
and that, delivering the sheep to them, I may see what
they will do; whether they will act as I commanded them,
or not.
100 Of this, therefore, they will be ignorant;
neither shall you make any explanation to them, nor
reprove them; but there will be an account of all the
destruction made by them in their respective seasons.
Then they will begin to kill, and to destroy more than they
are commanded. 101 And they left the sheep under the
power of the lions, so that many of them were devoured
and swallowed by the lions and tigers; and wild boars fell
upon them to prey upon them. That tower they burned,
and they tore down that house.
102 Then I was greatly distressed because of the
tower and because the house of the sheep was torn down.
103 Nor was I able to discern afterward whether
they had entered that house again.
104 The shepherds and their companions also
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its season, according to its number, was given over; each
one, one with another, was described in a book, just as
many of them, one with another, were destroyed in a
book.
105 But more than was commanded, each
shepherd killed and destroyed.
106 Then I began to weep and was greatly
displeased because of the shepherds.
(The fall of Judah, the destruction of Jerusalem,
the Jews killed and others deported. The last verses have
spoken of the Babylonian exile.)
107 In the same way, I also saw in the vision the
one who wrote, as he wrote one, destroyed by the
shepherds, every day. He went up, stood, and displayed
each of their books to the Lord of the sheep, containing
everything they had done, and everything each of them
had done;
108 And all those they had given over to
destruction.
109 He took the book in his hand, sealed it, and
laid it down.

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110 After this, for twelve hours, the shepherds
neglected the Lord's command.
111 And behold, three of the separated sheep
arrived, went in, and began rebuilding everything that had
fallen down in that house.
(Verse 111 speaks of the three servants of God
who restore the city of Jerusalem: Zerubbabel, Joshua,
and Nehemiah.)
112 But the wild boars hindered them, although
they did not prevail.
(The Samaritans are called wild boars.)
113 Again they began to build as before, and
raised that tower which was called "the high tower."
114 And again they began to place a table before
the tower, with all kinds of unclean and unclean bread on
it.
115 Moreover, all the sheep were blind and could
not see, nor were the shepherds.
(I do not believe this text was written by Enoch at
all; the rancidity of the text is obvious; it is a Jewish text
that hated the Samaritans.)

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116 So they were given over to the shepherds for
great destruction, who trampled them underfoot and
devoured them.
117 Yet their Lord was aware of this until all the
sheep in the field were destroyed. The shepherds and the
sheep were all mixed together, but they did not save them
from the power of the animals.
118 Then the one who wrote the book went up,
displayed it, and read from it in the house of the Lord of
the sheep. He prayed for them, pointing out every act of
the shepherds and testifying before him against them all.
Then, taking the book, he put it away, and went away.
(The Jews' religious hatred of the Samaritans is
shameful, creating mythological texts in the name of God
to deify hatred against their neighbor. It was no wonder
that Jesus, to mock these idiots, told the story of the Good
Samaritan, even to demystify this intoxicating hatred.)

Chapter 89
1 And I observed during the time that thirty-seven
shepherds were inspecting, all of whom finished in their
respective periods like the first. Others then received them

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into their hands, so that they could tend them in their
respective periods, each shepherd in his own period.
(Thirty-seven and. An apparent error for thirty-five
[see verse 7]. A reference to the kings of Judah and Israel
- Laurence, p. 139).
2 After this I saw in the vision, that all the birds of
the sky arrived: eagles, the eagle, the kite, and ravens.
The water instructed them all.
3 They began to devour the sheep, to peck out
their eyes, and to eat their bodies.
4 Then the sheep cried out; for their bodies were
devoured by the birds.
5 I also cried out, and groaned in my sleep against
the shepherds who were tending the flock.

6 And I watched as the sheep were eaten by the
dogs, the eagles, and the ravens. They left neither their
bodies nor their skin nor their muscles, and only their
bones remained; even their bones fell to the ground. And
the sheep was diminished.

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7 I also observed during the time that twenty-three
shepherds were tending, who completed their respective
periods, fifty-eight periods.
(The Kings of Babylon, etc., During and After the
Captivity. The number thirty-five and twenty-three add up
to fifty-eight, not thirty-seven, as is erroneously put in the
first verse - Laurence, p. 139).
8 Then little lambs were born to that white sheep;
they began to open their eyes and see, crying for the
sheep.
9 But the sheep did not cry out to them, nor listen
to what they said to it, but remained mute, blind, and
stubborn in even greater intensity.
10 I saw in the vision that ravens flew over those
lambs;
11 They seized them; they seized one of them
and tore the sheep to pieces and devoured them.
12 I also saw horns grow on the lambs, and
ravens perch on their horns.
13 I also saw a large horn sprout among the
sheep, and its eyes were open.

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14 It looked at them; its eyes were wide open, and
it cried out to them.
15 Then the ibex saw it; they all ran to it.
(The ibex. Probably symbolizing Alexander the
Great - Laurence, p. 140)
16 And meanwhile, all the eagles, ravens, and
kites were still carrying the sheep, flying over it, and
devouring it. The sheep was silent, but the ibex mourned
and cried.
17 Then the ravens contended and fought with it.
18 They sought among themselves to break its horn, but
they could not prevail against it.
(This horn is Alexander the Great; the author of
this text certainly lived in the inter-biblical period and
borrowed the symbolism from the book of the prophet
Daniel.)
19 I looked at them, until the shepherds, the
eagles, the vultures, and the kites came.
20 They called to the ravens to break the horn of
the ibex, to contend with it, and to kill it.
But he struggled with them and cried out for help.

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21 Then I saw the man who had written the
names of the shepherds come up before the Lord of the
sheep.
22 He brought attendants and made everyone see
him coming down to help the ibex.
23 I also saw that the Lord of the sheep came to
them in anger, and all who saw him fled; they all fell
before him in their tent. All the eagles, ravens, and kites
gathered together and brought with them all the sheep of
the field.
24 They all came together and stopped the ibex
from breaking its horn.
25 Then I saw the man who wrote the book at the
word of the Lord open the book of the destruction of the
last twelve shepherds and show it to the Lord of the
sheep, so that they might destroy more than those who
had gone before them.
(The native princes of Judah after their
deliverance from Assyrian captivity.)
26 I also saw that the Lord of the sheep came to
them, and taking in his hand the scepter of his wrath,
stuck in the earth, and it split in two. And all the animals

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and birds of the sky fell on the sheep, and sank into the
earth, and it closed over them.
27 I also saw that a great sword was given to the
sheep, and they went out against all the beasts of the field
to kill them.
28 But all the animals and birds of the sky fled
before them.
29 And I saw a throne set up in a pleasant land;
30 On it sat the Lord of the sheep, and he
received all the sealed books;
31 And they were opened before him.
32 Then the Lord called the first seven white stars
and ordered them to bring before him the first star of all
the stars, which preceded the stars that partly resembled
horses—the first star, which fell first—and they brought it
before him.
33 And he spoke to the man who wrote before
him, who was one of the seven white stars, saying, "Take
those seventy shepherds to whom I gave the sheep, and
who, upon receiving them, killed more of them than I
commanded." Behold, I saw them all bound, standing
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being judged and found guilty, went to the place of
punishment. They committed them to a place deep and
full of flaming pillars of fire. Then the seventy shepherds,
being judged and found guilty, were committed to the
flames of the abyss.
34 At that time also I saw that the abyss was
opened in the midst of the earth, which was filled with fire.
3 And the blind sheep were brought to it; and when they
were judged and found guilty, they were all committed to
that fiery abyss in the earth, and burned.
36 The abyss was to the right of that house.
37 And I saw the sheep burning, and their bones
being consumed.
38 I watched as he immersed that ancient house,
while they brought out its pillars, every plant in it, and the
ivory contained therein. They brought it out and deposited
it in the place on the right side of the earth.

39 I also saw that the Lord of the sheep had made
a new house, larger and loftier than the former, which he
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its new marble was also more abundant than the old
marble he had brought.
40 And while all the sheep that were left in the
midst of it, all the animals of the earth, and all the birds of
the air, fell down and worshiped him, praying to him and
obeying him in everything,
41 Then those three who were clothed in white,
who had previously taken me by the hand, had brought
me up, while the hand of the one who spoke with me held
me, and placed me among the sheep, before the
judgment took place.
42 The sheep was all white, with long, pure wool.
Then all the animals that had perished and been
destroyed—every beast of the field and every bird of the
sky—gathered together in that house. The Lord of the
sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all well
and had returned to their home.
43 I saw that they had put down the sword that
had been given to the sheep and returned to their home,
sealing it in the presence of the Lord.
44 All the sheep had been shut up in that house,
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opened, and they beheld the Good One; there was not
one among them who did not see him.
45 I also saw that the house was large, wide, and
exceedingly full. I also saw that a white cow had been
born, with large horns; and all the beasts of the field and
all the birds of the sky were alarmed by it and cried out to
it constantly.
46 Then I saw that their nature was changed, and
they became white cows.
47 And the first, who was in the midst of them,
spoke, when that word became a great beast, upon whose
head were great black horns;
(He spoke, when that word. Or "it was a wild bull,
and that wild bull was…" - Knibb, p. 216).
48 While the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over
them, and over all the cattle.
49 I fell among them: I awoke; and I saw the
whole. This is the vision that I saw, descending and
awaking. Then I blessed the Lord of righteousness, and
gave glory to Him.
50 After that I wept abundantly; my tears did not
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looking, they flowed because of what I saw; for everything
was coming and going; every individual circumstance
concerning the conduct of humanity was being seen by
me. 51 That night I remembered my former dreams; and
then I wept and grieved because of what I had seen in the
vision.
Chapter 90

1 And now, my son Methuselah, call all your
brothers to me, and gather to me all your mother's sons;
for a voice calls to me, and the spirit is placed upon me,
that I may show you all that will befall you forever.
2 Then Methuselah went and called all his
brothers and gathered his sons together.
3 And speaking to all his sons in truth,
4 Enoch said, "Hear, my son, every word of your
father, and listen with honesty to the voice of my mouth;
for I would like to gain your attention while I speak to you.
My beloved, be bound to integrity, and walk in it.
5 Do not approach integrity with a double heart;
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in righteousness, which will lead you in good paths; and
let truth be your companion.
6 For I know that oppression will exist and prevail
in the land; that in the end great punishment will occur in
the land; and that there will be a consummation of all
iniquity, which will be cut off by its roots, and every
structure that has risen will pass away. Iniquity, however,
will be renewed again, and consumed in the land. Every
act of crime, and every act of oppression and wickedness
will be embraced a second time.
7 When iniquity, sin, blasphemy, tyranny, and
every evil deed increase, and when transgression,
impiety, and impurity also increase, then every great
punishment from heaven will be inflicted upon them.
8 The holy YHWH will go forth in wrath, and every
great punishment from heaven will be inflicted upon them.
9 The holy YHWH will go forth in wrath and with
punishment, so that he may execute judgment upon the
earth.
10 In those days oppression will be cut off at its
roots, and iniquity with fraud will be eradicated, perishing
from under heaven.

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11 Every place of strength will be surrounded with
its inhabitants; it will be burned with fire. They will be
brought from every part of the earth, and they will be cast
into a fiery judgment. They will perish in wrath, and by a
judgment dominating them forever.
(Every place of strength. Or, "all the idols of the
nations" - Knibb, p. 218).
12 Righteousness will arise from its rest; and
wisdom will arise and be bestowed upon them.
13 Then the roots of iniquity will be cut off; sinners
will perish by the sword; and blasphemers will be
destroyed everywhere.
14 Those who meditate oppression, and those
who blaspheme, will perish by the sword.
15 And now, my son, I will describe and show you
the way of righteousness and the way of oppression.
16 I will again point them out to you, so that you
may know what is coming.
17 Hear now, my son, and walk in the way of
righteousness, but avoid the way of oppression; for
everyone who walks in the way of iniquity will perish
forever.

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Chapter 91
1 That which was written by Enoch. He wrote all
this instruction of wisdom for every man of dignity, and for
every judge of the earth; for all my children who will dwell
on earth, and for subsequent generations, conducting
themselves uprightly and peacefully.
2 Do not let your spirit be troubled by the times;
for the Holy One, the Great One, has prescribed a time for
everything.
3 Let the righteous rise from their slumber, let
them arise, and pursue the path of righteousness in all
their ways; and let them advance in goodness and eternal
mercy. Mercy will be shown to the righteous; integrity and
power will be bestowed upon them forever. In goodness
and righteousness they will exist, they will walk in eternal
light; but the sinner will perish in eternal darkness, neither
will they be seen from that time forward forever.

Chapter 92
1 After this, Enoch began to speak about a book.

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2 And Enoch said: Concerning the sons of
righteousness, concerning the elect of the world, and
concerning the seed of righteousness and integrity.
3 Concerning these things I have spoken, and
these things I will explain to you, my son: and that I am
Enoch. In consequence of what was shown to me, of my
eternal vision and of the voice of the holy angels, I have
acquired knowledge; and from the table of heaven I have
acquired understanding.
(Holy angels. In a Qumran text, it reads
"Guardians and Saints," clearly denoting heavenly
Guardians who did not fall with the wicked - Milik, p. 264.
See also Dan. 4:13, "a guardian and a holy one came
down from heaven"; 4:17, "guardians, and... holy ones.")
4 Then Enoch began to speak from a book, and
said: I was born the seventh in the first week, while
judgment and righteousness waited patiently.
5 But after me, in the second week, great iniquity
arose, and deceit spread.
6 In that week the end of the first will occur, in
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(Humanity will be saved. Or, "man will be saved" -
Knibb, p. 224).
7 But when the first is completed, iniquity will
increase; and during the second week he will execute the
decree on sinners.
(The Flood after the first [mid-second] Millennium
(2500 B.C.).
8 After this, in the third week, during its
completion, the man of the plant of righteous judgments
will be selected; and after him the Plant of righteousness
will come forever.
(In the third week - King David at the end of the
third Millennium (1000 A.D.), The Plant of righteousness -
The Messiah at the end of the fourth Millennium (4 B.C. to
30 A.D.).
9 Subsequently, in the fourth week, during its
completion, the vision of the saints and the righteous will
be seen, the order of generation after generation will take
place, a dwelling place will be made for them. Then in the
fifth week, during its completion, the house of glory and
dominion will be erected forever.

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(The establishment [30 A.D.] and building of the
Church through the fifth and sixth Millennium.)
10 After this, in the sixth week, all those who exist
in it will be darkened, the hearts of They will all forget
wisdom, and in it a Man will arise and come.
(The Messiah at the end of the sixth millennium.)
11 And during its completion He will burn the
house of dominion with fire, and the entire race of the
chosen root will be scattered.
(The destruction of Jerusalem and the
disbursement of those who dwell in that land at the end of
the sixth and beginning of the seventh millennium.) Given
these predictions that advance the interbiblical period, I
already think that someone else wrote this part of the
book. Now, a Christian... But let's consider an even more
striking hypothesis: What if these predictions, through
fables comparing kings and peoples to animals, actually
come from Enoch? Unfortunately, my grammatical
knowledge of both my language and the original texts
does not allow me to perform a literary examination to
attribute this text to a single narrator, or more than one.
But nothing prevents scholars more versed than myself

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from examining the ancient texts of the Book of Enoch and
concluding whether the book comes from the same author
or from several feathers.)
12 After this, in the seventh week, a wicked
generation will arise; their deeds will be abundant, and all
their wicked deeds will be abundant. During its conclusion,
the righteous will be selected from the eternal seed of
eternal righteousness; and they will be given the doctrine
of their creation.
13 Then there will be another week, the eighth, of
righteousness, for which a sword will be given to execute
judgment and justice on all oppressors.
(The beginning of the eighth millennium. If this
prediction is true, the course of human history is still long,
and there will be several more millennia of this system of
things on the planet before the end comes.)
14 Sinners will be delivered into the hands of the
righteous, who during its conclusion will acquire dwellings
for their righteousness; and the house of the great King
will be established for celebrations forever. After this, in
the ninth week, the judgment of righteousness will be
revealed to all the world.

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15 Every work of wickedness will disappear from
the whole earth; the world will be marked for destruction;
and all men will be attentive to the path of integrity.
16 And after this, on the seventh day of the tenth
week, there will be eternal judgment, which will be
executed on the Watchers; and an eternal, spacious
heaven will spring up in the midst of the angels.
17 The old heaven will depart and pass away; a
new heaven will appear; and the heavenly powers will
shine with splendor forever. Afterward, there will also be
many weeks, which will exist in extreme goodness and
righteousness.
(The text above speaks of a new heaven and a
new earth, as narrated in the book of Revelation in
chapter 21. After the Last Judgment, there will be
millennia upon millennia of peace on earth, a humanity
transformed and freed from the sinful nature that enslaves
us all.)
18 Sin will not even be named there forever and
ever.
19 Who will be there, among all the sons of men,
able to hear the voice of the Holy One without emotion?

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20 Who will be able to think their own thoughts?
Who will be able to contemplate all the work of heaven?
Who can comprehend the works of heaven?
21 He may see its animation, but not its spirit. He
may be able to converse about it, but not to know it. He
may see all the boundaries of these things and meditate
on them, but he cannot do anything like them.
22 Who among all men can comprehend the
breadth and length of the earth?
23 By whom have the dimensions of all these
things been seen? Who can comprehend the extent of the
heavens? What is their height, and by what is they
supported?
24 What are the numbers of the stars? And where
do all the luminaries rest?
Chapter 93
1 And now let me exhort you, my son, to love
righteousness and to walk in it; for the ways of
righteousness are worthy of acceptance; but the ways of
wickedness will suddenly fail and be diminished.

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2 To men of note in their generation the ways of
oppression and death are revealed; but they keep far from
it.
3 Now, also, let me exhort those who are
righteous, not to walk in the ways of evil and oppression,
nor in the ways of death. Do not approach them, lest you
perish, but desire,
4 And choose for yourselves righteousness and a
good life.
5 Walk in the ways of peace, that you may be
found worthy. Keep my words in your secret thoughts, and
do not blot them out from your hearts; for I know that
sinners cunningly counsel men to commit crime. They are
not found everywhere, nor does every counsel contain a
bit of them.
6 Woe to those who build iniquity and oppression,
and lay the foundation of deceit; for suddenly they are
overthrown, and never obtain peace.
7 Woe to those who build their houses of crime;
For their houses will be demolished from their very
foundations, and they themselves will fall by the sword.
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suddenly perish. Woe to you, who are rich, for you trusted
in your wealth! But you will be stripped of your riches,
because you did not remember the Most High in the days
of your prosperity.
8 You have committed blasphemy and iniquity,
and you are destined for the day of bloodshed, the day of
darkness, and the day of great judgment.
9 This I declare and point out to you: He who
created you will destroy you.
10 When you fall, He will show you no mercy; but
your Creator will rejoice in your destruction.
11 Let those, then, who will be upright among you
in those days detest sinners and worldly people.
(Worldly people are those who live according to
the pleasures of the world, the hedonists. Modern
Christians are the worst hedonists. The modern Christian
church is like the wicked. They practice everything that is
abominable to God.)

Chapter 94

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1 Oh, that my eyes were overflowing with water,
that I might weep over you, and pour out my tears like a
river, and rest from the sorrow of my heart!
2 Who has allowed you to be angry and
transgress? Judgment will overtake you, O sinners.
3 The righteous will not fear the wicked; for God
will bring them back with his power, that he may take
vengeance on them according to his pleasure.
4 Woe to you who are so bound by execrations
that you cannot be released from them; the remedy being
far from being removed from you because of your sins.
Woe to you who reward your neighbors with evil; for you
will be rewarded according to your works.
5 Woe to you, false witnesses, who provoke and
aggravate iniquity! For you will perish suddenly.

6 Woe to you, sinners, for you reject the righteous;
for you will gladly receive or reject those who commit
iniquity; and their yoke will prevail upon you.

Chapter 95

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1 Wait in hope, you righteous; for sinners will
perish before you, and you will rule over them at your
pleasure.
2 In the day of sinners' sufferings, your
descendants will be lifted up and exalted like eagles. Your
nests will be higher than those of eagles; you will ascend
and enter the holes of the earth and the clefts of the rocks
forever, like rabbits, from the sight of worldly people;
3 They will groan over you and cry like sirens.
4 You will not fear those who hate you; for
restoration will be yours; the splendid light will shine
around you, and the voice of quiet will be heard from
heaven. Woe to you, sinners! For your wealth makes you
resemble the saints, but your hearts reprove you, knowing
that you are sinners. Your words will testify against you,
as a reminder of your crime.
5 Woe to you who feed on the glory of the corn,
and drink strength from the deepest spring, and in the
pride of your power trample on the humble.
6 Woe to you who drink water for pleasure! For
suddenly you will be rewarded, consumed, and withered,
because you have forgotten the foundation of life.

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7 Woe to you who act wickedly, deceitfully, and in
blasphemy; there will be a memory against you for evil.
8 Woe to you mighty ones, who with power strike
justice, for the day of your destruction will come; while at
that very time many and good days will be the portion of
the righteous, even in the time of your judgment.

Chapter 96
1 The righteous are confident that sinners will be
disgraced and perish on the day of iniquity.
2 You will be aware of this; for the Most High will
remember your destruction, and the angels will rejoice
over it. What will sinners do? And where will you flee on
the day of judgment, when you hear the words of the
prayer of the righteous?
3 You will not be like those who testify against
you; you are companions of sinners.
4 In those days the prayers of the righteous will
come before the Lord. When the day of your judgment will
come, and every instance of your iniquity will be recounted
before the Great and Holy One.

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5 Your faces will be covered with shame; while
every deed, strengthened by crime, will be rejected.
6 Woe to you, sinners, for in the midst of the sea,
and on dry land, are those against whom a bad testimony
exists. Woe to you who waste silver and gold, not
obtained in righteousness, and say, 'We are rich, we have
abundance, and we have acquired all our desires.'
7 Then we will do whatever we are willing to do,
for we will heap up silver; our barns will be full, and the
heads of our families will be like overflowing water.
8 Like water, falsehood will pass away; for your
wealth will not be permanent, but will suddenly surge from
you, because you have obtained it all unjustly, and you will
be given over to extreme cursing.
9 And now I swear to you, you crafty and foolish
ones, that you, who often gaze upon the earth, you who
are men will dress more elegantly than married women,
and both of you together much more than unmarried
women, adorning yourselves everywhere in majesty, in
splendor, in authority, and in silver; but gold, purple,
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(More elegantly than married women… than
unmarried women. Or, "more than a woman and more
colorful (in dress) than a young woman…" - Knibb, p.
230).
10 Learning, therefore, and wisdom will not be
yours. Thus they will perish, along with their riches, with all
their glory, and with their honors;
11 While with disgrace, with slaughter, and in
extreme poverty, their spirits will be committed to the
furnace of fire.
12 I have sworn to you, sinners, that neither
mountain nor hill has been nor will be the servant of
woman.
(Servant. Literally, "a servant." Perhaps supplying
them with treasures for ornaments - Laurence, p. 159).
13 Nor in this way was crime sent to you upon the
earth, but men of their own minds invented it; and those
who gave it effectiveness will be greatly execrated.

14 Pregnancy will not be inflicted on a woman
beforehand; but because of the works of her hands, she
will die childless.

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15 I have sworn to you, sinners, by the Holy One
and the Great One, that all your evil deeds will be made
public in heaven; and that none of your oppressive acts
will be hidden or secret.
(Everything we do on Earth is broadcast in the
spiritual world to all heavenly creatures like a television.
The heavenly beings tune into the soap opera of our lives
and watch what we do in public and private.)
16 Do not think in your minds, nor say in your
hearts, that every crime is not revealed and seen. In
heaven it is written daily before the Most High. From now
on it will be revealed; for every act of oppression you
commit will be recorded daily, until the moment of your
condemnation.
17 Woe to you, naive ones, for you will perish in
your simplicity. You will not listen to the wise, and you will
not obtain what is good.
(Those who lived in this world and instead of
seeking wisdom watched soap operas, wasted their time
with movies, video games, or gossiped on social media
will perish in eternal hell. They should have spent their
lives seeking spiritual wisdom.)

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18 Now, therefore, know that you are destined for
the day of destruction; the hope of those sinners will not
survive; but in the course of time you will die, for you will
not be marked for redemption.
19 But they are destined for the day of great
judgment, for the day of distress and extreme shame of
your souls.
20 Woe to you, obstinate in heart, who commit
crimes and feed on blood! From where do you eat good
things, drink, and be satisfied? Is it not because our
YHWH, the Most High, has abundantly provided every
good thing on earth? There will be no peace for you there.
(If there is no hell, with death one attains peace.
But if hell is eternal conscious suffering, then there will be
no peace. Jehovah's Witnesses and Adventists are crazy
in their hopes of going to a place without eternal suffering.
Don't delude yourselves... Don't console the wicked by
saying that hell is just a peaceful grave. The hell of these
two Christian groups is the dream of those who commit
suicide. But if hell exists, those who commit suicide will yet
see what true suffering is.)

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21 Woe to you who love wickedness! Why do you
hope for good? Know that you will be delivered into the
hands of the righteous, who will cut your throats and kill
you, and will show you no mercy.
(At Armageddon, the Church descends with
Christ, and the wicked will be killed by Christ and by us,
his army, as narrated in the book of Revelation chapter 19
in its entirety.)
22 Woe to you who rejoice in the suffering of the
righteous; for no grave will be dug for you.
23 Woe to you who frustrate the word of the
righteous; for there will be no hope of life for you.
24 Woe to you who write falsehood and iniquity;
for they will remember your lies, so that they may hear
and not forget.
25 There will be no peace for them; but they will
surely die suddenly.
Chapter 97
1 Woe to those who act wickedly, who praise and
honor false words! You have sunk into perdition; you have
never led virtuous lives.

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2 Woe to you who change the words of integrity!
They transgress the eternal decree;
They transgress… the eternal decree. Or, "they
distort the eternal law" - Knibb, p. 232).
3 And they cause the heads of those who are not
sinners to be trampled upon the earth.
4 In those days you, the righteous, will be deemed
worthy to have your prayers lifted up in remembrance; and
you will deposit them as a testimony before the angels, so
that they may record the sins of sinners in the presence of
the Most High.
5 In those days the nations will be overthrown; but
the families of the nations will rise again in the day of
perdition.
6 In those days those who are pregnant will go
out, take their children, and abandon them. Their children
will flee from them, and while they nurse them, they will
forget them; they will never return to them, and they will
never instruct their beloved ones.
7 Again I swear to you, sinners, that crimes have
been prepared for the day of blood, which never ceases.

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8 They will worship stones, and engraved gold,
and silver, and wooden images. They will worship unclean
spirits, demons, and every idol in the temples; but no help
will be obtained for them. Their hearts will become
impious because of their folly, and their eyes will be
blinded by mental superstition. In their visionary dreams
they will be impious and superstitious, lying in all their
actions, and worshiping a stone. They will perish
completely.
(Mental superstition. Literally, "with the fear of
their hearts" - Laurence, p. 162).
9 But in those days they will be blessed, to whom
the word of wisdom is given; who point out and seek the
way of the Most High; who walk in the path of
righteousness, and do not deal ungodly with the wicked.
10 They will be saved.
11 Woe to you who spread the iniquity of your
neighbors; for in hell you will be dead.
(Dead means separated from God forever and will
not cease to exist.)

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12 Woe to you who lay the foundation of sin and
deceit, and are bitter in the land; for in it you will be
consumed.
13 Woe to you who build houses by the labor of
others, every part of which is built with bricks and the
stone of crime; I tell you, you will not obtain peace.
14 Woe to you who despise the prolongation of
the eternal inheritance of your fathers, while your abodes
follow after idols; for for you there will be no rest.
15 Woe to those who commit iniquity and give aid
to blasphemy; who kill their neighbors until the day of the
great judgment! For your glory will fall; He will put malice
in your hearts, and the spirit of wrath will stir you up; so
that each of you will perish by the sword.
16 Then the righteous and the holy will remember
your crimes.

Chapter 98
1 In those days fathers and their sons will be
struck down in front of each other; and brothers and
sisters will fall slain with their brothers, until a river of their
blood flows.

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2 For a man will not restrain his hand from his
son, nor from his children's children; his mercy will be in
killing them.
3 The sinner will not restrain his hand from his
honored brother. From the rising of the day until the
setting of the sun the slaughter will continue. The horse
will trudge up to its chest, and the chariot will sink up to its
axle in the blood of sinners. (This text resembles the text
in Revelation 14:20: “And the winepress was trodden
outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up
to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of one thousand six
hundred furlongs.”)

Chapter 99
1 In those days the angels will descend into the
hiding places and gather into one place all those who
have helped in crime.
2 On that day the Most High will arise to execute
great judgment on all sinners, and to entrust the
guardianship of all the righteous and holy to the holy
angels, so that they may guard them as the apple of their
eye, until all evil and all crime is annihilated.

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(God’s servants are promised angelic protection
until evil ends its reign on earth.)
3 Whether the righteous sleep in safety or not,
wise men will then truly perceive.
4 And the children of the earth will understand
every word of that book, knowing that their riches cannot
save them from the ruin of their crimes.
5 Woe to you, sinners, when you will be afflicted
because of the righteous in that day of great tribulation;
you will be burned with fire, and rewarded according to
your works.
6 Woe to you, wicked in heart, who are eager to
gain an accurate knowledge of evil and to discover terrors.
No one will help you.
7 Woe to you, sinners! For with the words of your
mouths and the work of your hands, you have acted
wickedly; in the flame of a blazing fire you will be burned.
8 And now know this: the angels in heaven will
inquire about your conduct; from heaven, from the moon,
and from the stars, and they will inquire about your sins;
for on earth you will exercise jurisdiction over the
righteous.

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9 Every cloud will bear witness against you, the
snow, the dew, and the rain; for they will all be withheld
from you, so that they will not descend upon you or
become subservient to your crimes.
10 Now then, bring gifts of greeting to the rain, so
that, not being withheld, it may descend upon you; and to
the dew, if it has received from you gold and silver. But
when frost, snow, cold, every snowy wind, and every
suffering that belongs to them, fall upon you, in those days
you will be utterly unable to stand before them.
(The elements of nature are presented as living
beings whose wrath against sinners can be appeased. I
believe there are life forms that are not recognized by
classical biology.)
Chapter 100

1 Consider heaven, all you offspring of heaven,
and all the works of the Most High; fear him, and do not
behave sinfully before him.

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2 If he shuts the windows of heaven, withholding
the rain and the dew, so that they do not come down on
the earth because of you, what will you do?
3 And if he sends wrath upon you and upon all
your works, you will not be able to plead with him; you
who have spoken proud and powerful words against his
righteousness. There will be no peace for you.
4 Do you not see the captains of the ships, how
their boats are tossed about by the waves, torn to pieces
by the winds, and exposed to the greatest dangers?
5 Therefore, let them tremble, because all their
property is embarked with them on the ocean; and let
them suppress evil in their hearts, lest it swallow them up,
and they perish in it?

6 Is not the whole sea, all its waters and all its
commotion, the work of the Most High, who sealed all its
expanses and surrounded it on every side with sand?
7 Is it not dried up and alarmed at His rebuke,
while all its fish, with all that is in it, dies? And you sinners
who are on the earth, will you not fear Him? Is He not the
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8 And who has given knowledge and wisdom to
everything that moves and moves on the earth and under
the sea?
9 Are not the captains of the ship in the deep
terrified? And will not sinners be terrified before the Most
High?
Chapter 101
(not)
Chapter 102
1 In those days, when He casts the calamity of fire
upon you, where will you flee, and where will you be safe?
2 And when He sends His word against you, will
you not be spared and terrified?
3 All the luminaries are shaken with great fear;
and the whole earth is spared, while they tremble and
suffer anxiety.
4 All the angels fulfill the commandments they
have received from Him, and are eager to hide from the
presence of His great glory, while the children of the earth
are alarmed and distressed.
5 But you sinners will be cursed forever; for you
there will be no peace.

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6 Do not fear, soul of the righteous; but wait
patiently for the day of your death in righteousness. Do not
grieve because your souls go down in great suffering, with
groaning, lamentation, and sorrow, to the pit of the dead.
In the time of your life, your bodies did not receive the
reward in proportion to your goodness, but in the period of
your existence, sinners existed, in the period of execration
and punishment.
(God's servants have no material hope of
receiving reward in this life. Mercenary preachers incite
the poor devils, awakening in them the desire for material
goods in this life. But true Christians seek riches in the
next world.)
7 And when you die, sinners will say of you: As we
die, so the righteous die. What profit do they have in their
works? Behold, like us, they expire in sorrow and
darkness. What advantage do they have over us? From
this day forward we are equal. What will be within their
reach, and before their eyes forever? For behold, they are
dead; and they will never see the light again. I say to you,
sinners: You have been satisfied with meat and drink, with
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of wealth, and with the vision of good days. Have you not
observed the righteous, how their end is in peace? For no
oppression is found in them, even on the day of their
death. They perish, as if they had not existed, while their
souls descend in sorrow to the receptacle of the dead.

(If souls descend sadly into the receptacles of the
dead, it means that with death, consciousness is not lost.)
Chapter 103
1 But now I swear to you, O righteous ones, by
the greatness of His splendor and glory, by His illustrious
kingdom and by His majesty, to you I swear, that I
understand this mystery; that I have read the tablet of
heaven, have seen the record of the saints, and have
discovered what is written and printed concerning you.
2 I have seen that all goodness, joy, and glory
have been prepared for you, and have been written by the
spirits of those who die eminently righteous and good. To
you will be given in return for your afflictions; and your
portion of joy will far exceed that of the living.
(Written by the spirits of those who die. This
statement shows that the dead have consciousness and

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intellectual activity after death. Therefore, in the ancient
Jewish concept, the belief in the survival of the soul after
death was accepted, at least by a portion of them.)
3 The spirits of those who died righteously will
exist and rejoice. Your spirits will exult; and your
remembrance will be before the face of the Mighty One
from generation to generation. They will then not fear
misfortune.
(The spirits will exist and rejoice. The Book of
Enoch expresses the belief that after death, spirits
possess emotional activity and are capable of rejoicing.
Therefore, the belief in soul sleep preached by Adventists
and Jehovah's Witnesses is at odds with ancient Jewish
faith. Christians throughout history have overwhelmingly
believed in the survival of the soul after death. It takes
considerable intellectual effort and a good deal of
dishonesty when reading the Scriptures to deny this
doctrine.)
4 Woe to you, sinners, when you die in your sins!
And those who are like you will say of you, 'Blessed are
these sinners!' They lived out their days; and now they die
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slaughter while they lived; they die in honor; never in their
lifetime has judgment overtaken them.
5 But has it not been shown to them that when
their souls descend into the receptacle of the dead, their
evil deeds will become their great torment? Their spirits
will enter into darkness, into a snare, and into a flame that
will burn until the great judgment, and the great judgment
will take effect forever and ever.
(The Book of Enoch is in harmony with all
Scripture regarding the spirits of unrepentant sinners who
remain burning in the hell of Sheol or lower Hades until
the day of final judgment.)
6 Woe to you! For there will be no peace for you.
Nor will you be able to say to the righteous and the good
who live, "In the days of our affliction we were afflicted; we
saw every kind of sorrow, and we have suffered many evil
things."
7 Our spirits have been consumed and
diminished.
8 We have perished; nor has there been any help
for us in word or deed; we have not found it, but have
been tormented and destroyed.

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9 We have not expected to live day by day.
10 We certainly hoped to have been the head;
11 But we have become the tail. We have been
afflicted when we have striven; but we have been
devoured by sinners and worldlings; their yoke has been
heavy upon us.
12 They have exercised dominion over us, whom
they detest, and have pierced us; and those who hate us
have humbled our necks; and they have shown us no
compassion.
13 We have longed to escape from them, that we
might flee and be at rest; but we have found no place to
flee to, and be safe from them. We have sought refuge
with princes in our distress, and we have cried out to
those who are devouring us; but our cry has not been
heeded, nor are they willing to hear our voice; 14 But
rather, they help those who plunder and devour us; those
who diminish us and hide their oppression; who remove
their yoke from us, but devour, weaken, and kill us; who
conceal the slaughter, and do not remember that they
have raised their hands against us.

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Chapter 104
1 I swear to you, O righteous, that in heaven the
angels record your goodness before the glory of the
Mighty One.
2 Wait with patient hope; for formerly you were
plagued with evil and affliction; but now you will shine like
the luminaries of heaven. You will be seen, and the gates
of heaven will be opened to you. Your cries have called for
judgment; and it has appeared to you; for a record of your
sufferings will be required of the princes, and of all who
have helped your plunderers.
3 Wait with patient hope; do not give up your
confidence; for great joy will be yours; like that of the
angels in heaven. Conduct yourselves as best you can,
yet you will not be hidden on the day of the great
judgment. You will not be like sinners; and eternal
condemnation will be far from you as long as the world
exists.
4 So do not fear, you righteous ones, when you
see sinners flourishing and prospering in their ways.
5 Do not associate with them; but keep yourselves
aloof from their oppression; be associated with the hosts

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of heaven. You sinners say, "All our transgressions will not
be taken into account and remembered." But all your
transgressions will be remembered daily.
6 And it is assured by me that light and darkness,
day and night, will see all your transgressions. Do not be
wicked in your thoughts; do not lie; do not yield the word
of honesty; do not lie against the word of the Holy and
Mighty One; do not glorify your idols; for all your lies and
all your wickedness are not for righteousness, but for
crime.
7 Now I point out a mystery: Many sinners will turn
and transgress against the word of honesty.

8 They will speak evil things; they will utter
falsehood; they will perform great deeds; (142) and they
will compose books in their own words. But when they
write all my words correctly in their own languages, (142)
they will perform great deeds. Literally, "they will create a
great creation" (Laurence, p. 173).
9 They will not change or diminish them; but they
will write them all correctly, everything that from the
beginning I have pronounced concerning them. (143)

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(143) Despite Enoch's command, his book was most
certainly changed and diminished by later editors, though
these fragments of it have survived.
10 Another mystery also I point out. To the
righteous and the wise there will be books of joy, integrity
and great wisdom. To them books will be given, in which
they will believe;
11 and in which they will rejoice. And all the
righteous will be rewarded, who among them will gain
knowledge of every high way.

Chapter 104
1 In those days, says the Lord, they will call to the
children of the land and make them hear their wisdom,
and will show them that they are their leaders;
2 And what reward will take place throughout the
earth; for I and my Son will forever maintain fellowship
with them in the ways of righteousness, as long as they
are alive. Peace will be theirs. Rejoice, you children of
integrity, in truth.
Chapter 105

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1 After a while, my son Methuselah took a wife for
his son Lamech.
2 She became pregnant by him and bore a son.
His flesh was as white as snow and red as a rose; the hair
on his head was white as cotton and long; and his eyes
were beautiful. When he opened them, he illuminated the
whole house like the sun; the whole house abounded in
light.
3 And when he was taken from the hand of the
midwife, his father Lamech was afraid of him; and he ran
to his own father Methuselah and said, "I have begotten a
son, unlike other sons. He is not human; but, resembling
the offspring of the angels of heaven, he is of a different
nature from ours, being altogether unlike us.
4 His eyes are bright as the rays of the sun; his
countenance is glorious, and he seems as if he belonged
not to me, but to the angels.
5 I am afraid lest something miraculous should
happen on earth in these days.
6 And now, my father, let me ask and require of
you, to go to our progenitor Enoch, and learn the truth
from him; for his residence is with the angels."

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7 When Methuselah heard the words of his son,
he came to me from the ends of the earth; for he was
informed that I was there: and he wept. 8 I heard his
voice, and I went to him, saying, "See, I am here, my son,
since you have come to me."
9 He answered and said, "For a great occasion I
have come to you; and for a vision hard to be understood I
have approached you."
10 And now, my father, listen to me; for to my son
Lamech a son has been born, who does not resemble
him, and whose nature is not like the nature of a man. His
color is whiter than snow; he is redder than the rose; the
hair of his head is whiter than wool; his eyes are like the
rays of the sun; and when he opened them, he illuminated
the whole house.

11 When he was taken from the midwife's hand,
12 His father Lamech was afraid and fled to me,
not believing that the child belonged to him, but that he
resembled the angels of heaven. And behold, I have come
to you so that you can show me the truth.

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13 Then I, Enoch, answered and said: The Lord
will do a new thing on earth. This I have explained, and I
have seen in a vision. I have shown you that in the
generations of Jared my father, those who were in heaven
disregarded the word of the Lord. Behold, they committed
crimes; they left their rank aside and mingled with women.
With them they also transgressed; they married them and
begot children.
(After this verse, a Greek papyrus adds: "who are
not like spiritual beings, but creatures of the flesh" - Milik,
p. 210. It is interesting that the Book of Enoch mentions
that angels came down to Earth to have sexual relations
with women in the days of Jared, that is, hundreds of
years before the flood, the events that caused the divine
punishment of the great global flood occurred.)
14 A great destruction, therefore, will come upon
the whole earth; a flood, a great destruction, will occur
within a year.
15 This child born to your son will survive on the
earth, and his three sons will be saved with him. While all
humanity on earth will die, he will be safe.

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16 And his posterity will breed on the earth giants,
not spiritual, but fleshly. A great punishment will be
inflicted upon the earth, and it will be washed from all
corruption. Now, therefore, inform your son Lamech that
the one who is born is truly his son; His name will be
Noah, for he will be a survivor. He and his children will be
saved from the corruption that will take place in the world,
from all the sin and iniquity that will consume the earth in
his days. After this, there will be greater wickedness than
that which was consumed on the earth before; for I am
acquainted with holy mysteries, which YHWH himself
discovered and explained to me, and which I have read on
the tablets of heaven.
17 In them I saw written, that generation after
generation will transgress, until a race of righteous people
arises; until transgression and crime disappear from the
face of the earth, until all goodness comes upon it.
(Not only the generation of Christ's millennial
kingdom, but probably the new earth that will exist after
the Last Judgment.)
18 And now, my son, go tell your son Lamech:

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19 That the child who is born is indeed your son;
and that there is no deception.
20 When Methuselah heard the words of his
father Enoch, who had shown him every secret thing, he
returned with understanding, and called the name of the
child Noah; because he comforted the earth because of all
its destruction.
.
21 Another book, which Enoch wrote for his son
Methuselah, and for those who should come after him,
and preserve their purity of conduct in the latter days. You,
who have labored, will wait in those days, until those who
do evil are consumed, and the power of the guilty is
annihilated. Wait, until sin passes by; for their names will
be blotted out of the holy books; their seed will be
destroyed, and their spirits killed. They will cry out and
lament in the invisible vastness, and in the bottomless fire
they will burn. (145) There I perceived, as it were, a cloud
through which one could not see; for from the depths of it I
was unable to look up. I also saw a flame of bright,
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around, and tossed to and fro. (Their spirits will be killed,
or eternally separated from God.)
(In the bottomless fire they will burn. Literally, "in
the fire they will burn, where there is no earth" - Laurence,
p. 178; that is, the eternal Gehenna.)
22 Then I inquired of a holy angel who was with
me, and said, What is this splendid object? For it is not
heaven, but only a flame of fire that burns; and in it is the
cry of exclamation, of woe, and of great suffering.
23 He said, There, to that place which you saw,
will be committed the spirits of sinners and blasphemers,
of those who practice evil, and pervert everything that God
spoke through the mouth of the prophets, all that they
should do. For concerning these things there will be
records there, and they will be printed in heaven, so that
the angels may read them and know what will happen to
sinners and to the spirits of the humble; To those who
suffered in their bodies but have been rewarded by God;
to those who have been treated unfairly by wicked men; to
those who have loved God, who has not hoarded gold or
silver or anything else in the world, but has given their
bodies to torment;

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(The doctrine of eternal reward is explicit. Those
who suffered but were faithful to God will have divine
rewards. Those who enjoyed the delights of the world will
suffer the punishments of hell.)
24 To those who, at the time of their birth, have
not been covetous of earthly riches, but have guarded
themselves as a passing breath.
25 Such has been their conduct; the Lord has
greatly tested them; and their spirits have been found
pure, so that they may bless His name. I have recorded all
their blessings in a book; and He has rewarded them; for
they have been found to love heaven with an eternal
aspiration. God has said: While they have been trodden
underfoot by wicked men, they have heard their insults
and blasphemies; and have been treated ignominiously,
while they bless me. And now I will call the good spirits of
the generation of light, and I will change those who were
born in darkness; who have not had their bodies rewarded
with glory, as their faith might have deserved.
.
(Heaven, an eternal aspiration. True Christians
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that matters: heaven. Those who attend church only in
search of material blessings are pitiful and have not
understood the Gospel.)
26 I will bring them into the splendid light of those
who love my holy name: and I will place each of them on a
throne of glory, of glory peculiar to themselves, and they
will rest for innumerable periods. Righteous are the
judgments of God;
27 For to the faithful he will give faith in the
dwellings of the righteous. They will see those who were
born in darkness, into darkness they will be cast, while the
righteous will rest. Sinners will cry out, seeing them, while
they exist in splendor and proceed toward the days and
periods prescribed for them.
(The book ends by saying that the wicked will see
the glory of the righteous, even though the wicked are in
eternal torment. They will have a television [remote view]
of the glory of the righteous.)

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