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BOOK OF ENOCH
From The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
R.H. Charles, Oxford: The Clarendon Press
Chapter 6:1-8
1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied
that in those days were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely
daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and
lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us
wives from among the children of men 3 and beget us children.' And
Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4
indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the
penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us
all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations 5
not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all
together and bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And
they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on
the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because
they had sworn 7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon
it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their
leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel,
Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel,
Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.
Chapter 7:1-6
1 And all the others together with them took unto themselves
wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto
them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms
2 and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them
acquainted with plants. And they 3 became pregnant, and they bare
great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed 4
all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain
them, the giants turned against 5 them and devoured mankind. And
they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and 6
fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then
the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
Chapter 14:8-25
8... And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision
clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the
stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the winds in 9
the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore me into
heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of
crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright
10 me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large
house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were
like a tessellated floor (made) of crystals, and its groundwork was
11 of crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the
lightnings, and between them were 12 fiery cherubim, and their
heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls,
and its 13 portals blazed with fire. And I entered into that house,
and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there 14 were no delights of
life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon me. And
as I quaked 15 and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a
vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater 16 than the
former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built
of flames of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour
and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to 17 you its
splendour and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it
were lightnings and the path 18 of the stars, and its ceiling also
was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its
appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining
sun, and there was the vision of 19 cherubim. And from underneath
the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look 20
thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more
brightly than the sun and 21 was whiter than any snow. None of the
angels could enter and could behold His face by reason 22 of the
magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming
fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and
none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times 23 ten thousand
(stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor. And the most holy
ones who were 24 nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart from
Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling: and
the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: ' Come
hither, 25 Enoch, and hear my word.' And one of the holy ones came
to me and waked me, and He made me rise up and approach the door:
and I bowed my face downwards.
Chapter 17:1-8
1 And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were
there were like flaming fire, 2 and, when they wished, they appeared
as men. And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a
mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. And I saw the
places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the
thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were 4 a fiery bow and
arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings.
And they took 5 me to the living waters, and to the fire of the
west, which receives every setting of the sun. And I came to a river
of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself
into the great sea towards 6 the west. I saw the great rivers and
came to the great river and to the great darkness, and went 7 to the
place where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of
winter and the place 8 whence all the waters of the deep flow. I saw
the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.
Chapter 19:1-3
1 And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have
connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many
different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into
sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall they stand,) till the day
of the great judgement in 2 which they shall be judged till they are
made an end of. And the women also of the angels who 3 went astray
shall become sirens.' And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends
of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.
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