THE BOOK OF ENOCH : CHAPTERS 77 - 88
[Chapter 77]
1 And the first quarter is called the east, because it is
the first: and the second, the south, because the Most High
will descend there, yea, there in quite a special sense will
He who is blessed for ever
2 descend. And the west quarter is named the diminished,
because there all the luminaries of the
3 heaven wane and go down. And the fourth quarter, named the
north, is divided into three parts: the first of them is for
the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas of water,
and the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and
clouds; and the third part contains the garden of
righteousness.
4 I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains
which are on the earth: and thence
5 comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and years pass
away. I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the
rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its waters
into the Great Sea.
6 And these two come from the north to the sea and pour
their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the
7 east. And the remaining, four come forth on the side of
the north to their own sea, two of them to the Erythraean
Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge themselves
there [and some say:
8 into the desert]. Seven great islands I saw in the sea and
in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in the Great
Sea.
[Chapter 78]
1, 2 And the names of the sun are the following: the first
Orjares, and the second Tomas. And the moon has four names:
the first name is Asonja, the second Ebla, the third Benase,
and the fourth
3 Erae. These are the two great luminaries: their
circumference is like the circumference of the
4 heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is
alike. In the circumference of the sun there are seven
portions of light which are added to it more than to the
moon, and in definite measures it is transferred till the
seventh portion of the sun is exhausted. And they set and
enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by
the north, and come forth through the eastern portals
6 on the face of the heaven. And when the moon rises
one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven:
7 [the light becomes full in her]: on the fourteenth day she
accomplishes her light. And fifteen parts of light are
transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her light
is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she
becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by (the addition
of) fourteenth
8 parts. And in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first
day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to
thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the
fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine,
on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the
ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four,
on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the
9 fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining
light disappears wholly on the fifteenth. And
10 in certain months the month has twenty-nine days and once
twenty-eight. And Uriel showed me another law: when light is
transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred
to her by the sun. During all the period during which the
moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to
herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen days [her
light is accomplished in the heaven,
12 and when she is illumined throughout, her light is
accomplished full in the heaven. And on the first
13 day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light
rises upon her. She becomes full moon exactly on the day
when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises
at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till
the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over
against the sun. On the side whence the light of the moon
comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light
vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end, and
her circumference is empty, void of
5 light. And three months she makes of thirty days, and at
her time she makes three months of twenty- nine days each,
in which she accomplishes her waning in the first period of
time, and in the first
6 portal for one hundred and seventy-seven days. And in the
time of her going out she appears for three months (of)
thirty days each, and for three months she appears (of)
twenty-nine each. At night she appears like a man for twenty
days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and
there is nothing else in her save her light.
[Chapter 79]
1 And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law
of all the stars of the heaven is
2 completed. And he showed me all the laws of these for
every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and for
every year, and for its going forth, and for the order
prescribed to it every month
3 and every week: And the waning of the moon which takes
place in the sixth portal: for in this
4 sixth portal her light is accomplished, and after that
there is the beginning of the waning: (And the waning) which
takes place in the first portal in its season, till one
hundred and seventy- seven
5 days are accomplished: reckoned according to weeks,
twenty-five (weeks) and two days. She falls behind the sun
and the order of the stars exactly five days in the course
of one period, and when
6 this place which thou seest has been traversed. Such is
the picture and sketch of every luminary which Uriel the
archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.
[Chapter 80]
1 And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me:
' Behold, I have shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have
revealed everything to thee that thou shouldst see this sun
and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven
and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and
departures.
2 And in the days of the sinners the years shall be
shortened, And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and
fields, And all things on the earth shall alter, And shall
not appear in their time: And the rain shall be kept back
And the heaven shall withhold (it).
3 And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be
backward, And shall not grow in their time, And the fruits
of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
4 And the moon shall alter her order, And not appear at her
time.
5 [And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall
journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot
in the west] And shall shine more brightly than accords with
the order of light.
6 And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order
(prescribed). And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,
And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
7 And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from
the sinners, And the thoughts of those on the earth shall
err concerning them, [And they shall be altered from all
their ways], Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
8 And evil shall be multiplied upon them, And punishment
shall come upon them So as to destroy all.'
[Chapter 81]
1 And he said unto me: ' Observe, Enoch, these heavenly
tablets, And read what is written thereon, And mark every
individual fact.'
2 And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything
which was written (thereon) and understood everything, and
read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of all the
children of flesh
3 that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations.
And forthwith I blessed the great Lord the King of glory for
ever, in that He has made all the works of the world, And I
extolled the Lord because of His patience, And blessed Him
because of the children of men.
4 And after that I said: ' Blessed is the man who dies in
righteousness and goodness, Concerning whom there is no book
of unrighteousness written, And against whom no day of
judgement shall be found.'
5 And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the
earth before the door of my house, and said to me: ' Declare
everything to thy son Methuselah, and show to all thy
children that no
6 flesh is righteous in the sight of the Lord, for He is
their Creator. One year we will leave thee with thy son,
till thou givest thy (last) commands, that thou mayest teach
thy children and record (it) for them, and testify to all
thy children; and in the second year they shall take thee
from their midst.
7 Let thy heart be strong, For the good shall announce
righteousness to the good; The righteous with the righteous
shall rejoice, And shall offer congratulation to one
another.
8 But the sinners shall die with the sinners, And the
apostate go down with the apostate.
9 And those who practice righteousness shall die on account
of the deeds of men, And be taken away on account of the
doings of the godless.'
10 And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came
to my people, blessing the Lord of the world.
[Chapter 82]
1 And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am
recounting to thee and writing down for thee! and I have
revealed to thee everything, and given thee books concerning
all these: so preserve, my son Methuselah, the books from
thy father's hand, and (see) that thou deliver them to the
generations of the world.
2 I have given Wisdom to thee and to thy children, [And thy
children that shall be to thee], That they may give it to
their children for generations, This wisdom (namely) that
passeth their thought.
3 And those who understand it shall not sleep, But shall
listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom, And it
shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.
4 Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who
walk in the way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners,
in the reckoning of all their days in which the sun
traverses the heaven, entering into and departing from the
portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands of the
order of the stars, together with the four which are
intercalated which divide the four portions of the year,
which
5 lead them and enter with them four days. Owing to them men
shall be at fault and not reckon them in the whole reckoning
of the year: yea, men shall be at fault, and not recognize
them
6 accurately. For they belong to the reckoning of the year
and are truly recorded (thereon) for ever, one in the first
portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one
in the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and
sixty-four days.
7 And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded
reckoning thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and
festivals, and years and days, has Uriel shown and revealed
to me, to whom the
8 Lord of the whole creation of the world hath subjected the
host of heaven. And he has power over night and day in the
heaven to cause the light to give light to men - sun, moon,
and stars,
9 and all the powers of the heaven which revolve in their
circular chariots. And these are the orders of the stars,
which set in their places, and in their seasons and
festivals and months.
10 And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch
that they enter at their times, in their orders, in their
seasons, in their months, in their periods of dominion, and
in their positions. Their four leaders who divide the four
parts of the year enter first; and after them the twelve
leaders of the orders who divide the months; and for the
three hundred and sixty (days) there are heads over
thousands who divide the days; and for the four intercalary
days there are the leaders which sunder
12 the four parts of the year. And these heads over
thousands are intercalated between
13 leader and leader, each behind a station, but their
leaders make the division. And these are the names of the
leaders who divide the four parts of the year which are
ordained: Milki'el, Hel'emmelek, and Mel'ejal,
14 and Narel. And the names of those who lead them:
Adnar'el, and Ijasusa'el, and 'Elome'el- these three follow
the leaders of the orders, and there is one that follows the
three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders of
stations that divide the four parts of the year. In the
beginning of the year Melkejal rises first and rules, who is
named Tam'aini and sun, and
16 all the days of his dominion whilst he bears rule are
ninety-one days. And these are the signs of the days which
are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat,
and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and
leaves are produced on all the trees, and the harvest of
wheat, and the rose-flowers, and all the flowers which come
forth in the field, but the trees of the winter season
become withered. And these are the names of the leaders
which are under them: Berka'el, Zelebs'el, and another who
is added a head of a thousand, called Hilujaseph: and the
days of the dominion of this (leader) are at an end.
18 The next leader after him is Hel'emmelek, whom one names
the shining sun, and all the days
19 of his light are ninety-one days. And these are the signs
of (his) days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and
the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits
ripe and ready, and the sheep pair and become pregnant, and
all the fruits of the earth are gathered in, and everything
that is
20 in the fields, and the winepress: these things take place
in the days of his dominion. These are the names, and the
orders, and the leaders of those heads of thousands:
Gida'ljal, Ke'el, and He'el, and the name of the head of a
thousand which is added to them, Asfa'el: and the days of
his dominion are at an end.
Section IV. Chapters LXXXIII - XC. The Dream - Visions.
[Chapter 83]
1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my
visions which I have seen, recounting
2 them before thee. Two visions I saw before I took a wife,
and the one was quite unlike the other: the first when I was
learning to write: the second before I took thy mother,
(when) I saw a terrible
3 vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had
laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel,
(when) I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was
borne off and fell to
4 the earth. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the
earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were
suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and
high trees were rent
5 from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss.
And thereupon a word fell into my mouth,
6 and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and said: ' The
earth is destroyed.' And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me
as I lay near him, and said unto me: ' Why dost thou cry so,
my son, and why
7 dost thou make such lamentation?' And I recounted to him
the whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto me: ' A
terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and of grave moment
is thy dream- vision as to the secrets of all the sin of the
earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with
8 a great destruction. And now, my son, arise and make
petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a believer,
that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not
destroy the whole
9 earth. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the
earth, and upon the earth there will be great
10 destruction. After that I arose and prayed and implored
and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the generations
of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son
Methuselah. And when I had gone forth below and seen the
heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting
in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and
everything as He had known it in the beginning, then I
blessed the Lord of judgement and extolled Him because He
had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east,
and he ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set
out and kept traversing the path shown unto him.
[Chapter 84]
1 And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the
Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth,
and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made for the
children of the flesh of men, that they should speak
therewith, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth
that they should speak therewith:
2 Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King, Great and mighty in Thy
greatness, Lord of the whole creation of the heaven, King of
kings and God of the whole world. And Thy power and kingship
and greatness abide for ever and ever, And throughout all
generations Thy dominion; And all the heavens are Thy throne
for ever, And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and
ever.
3 For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things, And nothing
is too hard for Thee, Wisdom departs not from the place of
Thy throne, Nor turns away from Thy presence. And Thou
knowest and seest and hearest everything, And there is
nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything].
4 And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great
day of judgement.
5 And now, O God and Lord and Great King, I implore and
beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer, To leave me a posterity on
earth, And not destroy all the flesh of man, And make the
earth without inhabitant, So that there should be an eternal
destruction.
6 And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which
has aroused Thy wrath, But the flesh of righteousness and
uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed, And
hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.'
[Chapter 85]
1,2 And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the
whole dream to thee, my son. And Enoch lifted up (his voice)
and spake to his son Methuselah: ' To thee, my son, will I
speak: hear my words-incline thine ear to the dream-vision
of thy father. Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a
vision on my bed, and behold a bull came forth from the
earth, and that bull was white; and after it came forth a
heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls,
one of them black and
4 the other red. And that black bull gored the red one and
pursued him over the earth, and thereupon
5 I could no longer see that red bull. But that black bull
grew and that heifer went with him, and
6 I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled
and followed him. And that cow, that first one, went from
the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red
one, but found him
7 not, and lamented with a great lamentation over him and
sought him. And I looked till that first
8 bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time
onward she cried no more. And after that she bore another
white bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black
cows.
9 And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and
become a great white bull, and from Him proceeded many white
bulls, and they resembled him. And they began to beget many
white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other,
(even) many.
[Chapter 86]
1 And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the
heaven above, and behold a star fell
2 from heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured amongst
those oxen. And after that I saw the large and the black
oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures
and their cattle, and began
3 to live with each other. And again I saw in the vision,
and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many stars
descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first
star, and they became
4 bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them [amongst
them]. And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let
out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the
cows of the oxen,
5 and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels,
and asses. And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted
at them, and began to bite with their teeth and to devour,
and to gore with their
6 horns. And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and
behold all the children of the earth began to tremble and
quake before them and to flee from them.
[Chapter 87]
1 And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to
devour each other, and the earth
2 began to cry aloud. And I raised mine eyes again to
heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth
from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went
forth from that place
3 and three with them. And those three that had last come
forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the
generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place,
and showed me
4 a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills
were lower. And one said unto me: ' Remain here till thou
seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and
asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.'
[Chapter 88]
1 And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and
he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven,
and bound it hand and foot and cast it into an abyss: now
that abyss was
2 narrow and deep, and horrible and dark. And one of them
drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and camels and
asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole
earth quaked
3 because of them. And as I was beholding in the vision, lo,
one of those four who had come forth stoned (them) from
heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose
privy members were like those of horses, and bound them all
hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.
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