Also referred to as “Ethiopian Enoch” or “1 Enoch”

1 The Book of enoch also referred to as ethiopian enoch or 1 enoch . Translated from the Ethiopic by Richard Laurence, London, 1883. CHAPTER 1 hosts; and be manifested in the 1. The word of the blessing of strength of his power from heaven. enoch , how he blessed the elect 5. and the righteous, who were to All shall be afraid, and the Watch- exist in the time of trouble; reject- ers be terrified. ing all the wicked and ungodly. 6. Great fear and trembling shall enoch , a righteous man, who wasa seize them, even to the ends of the with God, answered and spoke, earth. The lofty mountains shall while his eyes were open, and be troubled, and the exalted hills while he saw a holy vision in the depressed, melting like a honey- heavens. This the angels showed comb in the flame. The earth shall me. be immerged, and all things which 2 are in it perish; while judgment From them I heard all things, and understood what I saw; that which shall come upon all, even upon all will not take place in this genera- the righteous: tion, but in a generation which is 7.

2 But to them shall he give peace: to succeed at a distant period, on he shall preserve the elect, and account of the elect. towards them exercise clemency. 3 8. Upon their account I spoke and Then shall all belong to God; be conversed with him, who will go happy and blessed; and the splen- forth from his habitation, the Holy dour of the Godhead shall illumi- and Mighty One, the God of the nate them. world: 4 CHAPTER 2. Who will hereafter tread upon Mount Sinai; appear with his 1. Behold, he comes with ten thou- sands of his saints, to execute a. Italicized words supply a gap in the judgment upon them, and destroy text. the wicked, and reprove all the 1. Chapter 3. carnal for everything which the its very beginning; while you seek sinful and ungodly have done, and for a covered and shady spot on committed against account of the burning sun; while the earth is scorched up with fer- CHAPTER 3 vid heat, and you become incapa- 1 All ble of walking either upon the who are in the heavens know ground or upon the rocks in con- what is transacted there.

3 Sequence of that heat. 2 They know that the heavenly lumi- naries change not their paths; that CHAPTER 6. each rises and sets regularly, every one at its proper period, 1 They consider how the trees, when without transgressing the com- they put forth their green leaves, mands, which they have received. become covered, and produce They behold the earth, and under- fruit; understanding everything, stand what is there transacted, and knowing that He who lives from the beginning to the end of for ever does all these things for it. you: 3. They see that every work of God 2 That the works at the beginning of is invariable in the period of its every existing year, that all his appearance. They behold summer works, are subservient to him, and and winter: perceiving that the invariable; yet as God has whole earth is full of water; and appointed, so are all things that the cloud, the dew, and the brought to pass.

4 Rain refresh it. 3. They see, too, how the seas and CHAPTER 4 the rivers together complete their 1. respective operations: They consider and behold every 4 But you endure not patiently, nor tree, how it appears to wither, and every leaf to fall off, except of fulfill the commandments of the fourteen trees, which are not Lord; but you transgress and deciduous; which wait from the calumniate his greatness; and old, to the appearance of the new malignant are the words in your leaf, for two or three winters. polluted mouths against his Maj- esty. CHAPTER 5 5 You withered in heart, no peace 1 shall be to you! Again they consider the days of summer, that the sun is upon it at 6. Therefore your days shall you curse, and the years of your lives a. Quoted by Jude, vss. 14, 15. shall perish; perpetual execration 2 The Book of enoch Chapter 7. shall be multiplied, and you shall each other, Come, let us select for not obtain mercy.

5 Ourselves wives from the progeny 7. In those days shall you resign of men, and let us beget children. your peace with the eternal male- 3. Then their leader Samyaza said to dictions of all the righteous, and them; I fear that you may perhaps sinners shall perpetually execrate be indisposed to the performance you; of this enterprise;. 8 Shall e x ec r a t e y o u w i t h t h e 4. And that I alone shall suffer for so ungodly. grievous a crime. 9. The elect shall possess light, joy, 5. But they answered him and said;. and peace; and they shall inherit We all swear;. the earth. 6 And 10 bind ourselves by mutual But you, you unholy, shall be execrations, that we will not accursed. change our intention, but execute 11. Then shall wisdom be given to our projected undertaking. the elect, all of whom shall live, 7. Then they swore all together, and and not again transgress by impi- all bound themselves by mutual ety or pride; but shall humble execrations.

6 Their whole number themselves, possessing prudence, was two hundred, who descended and shall not repeat transgression. upon Ardis, b which is the top of 12. They shall not be condemned the mount Armon. whole period of their lives, not die 8. That mountain therefore was in torment and indignation; but called Armon, because they had the sum of their days shall be sworn upon it,c and bound them- completed, and they shall grow selves by mutual execrations. old in peace; while the years of 9. their happiness shall be multiplied These are the names of their with joy, and with peace, for ever, chiefs: Samyaza, who was their the whole duration of their exist- ence. a. An Aramaic text reads Watchers . here ( Milik, Aramaic Fragments of CHAPTER 7 Qumran Cave 4 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976], p. 167). 1It happened after the sons of men b. Upon Ardis. Or, in the days of had multiplied in those days, that Jared ( Charles, ed.)

7 And trans., The daughters were born to them, ele- Book of enoch [Oxford: Clarendon Press, gant and beautiful. 1893], p. 63). 2 And when the angels,a the sons of c. Mt. Armon, or Mt. Hermon, derives heaven, beheld them, they became its name from the Hebrew word herem, a enamoured of them, saying to curse (Charles, p. 63). The Book of enoch 3. Chapter 8. 13. leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, When they turned themselves Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, against men, in order to devour Saraknyal, Asael, Armers, them;. Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Sam- 14 And began to injure birds, beasts, saveel, Ertael, Turel, Yomyael, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their Arazyal. These were the prefects flesh one after another, c and to of the two hundred angels, and the drink their blood. remainder were all with 1 5 Then the earth reproved the 10. Then they took wives, each unrighteous.

8 Choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with CHAPTER 8. 1 Moreover Azazyel taught men to whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and make swords, knives, shields, the dividing of roots and trees. breastplates, the fabrication of 11 mirrors, and the workmanship of And the women conceiving bracelets and ornaments, the use brought forth giants,b of paint, the beautifying of the 12. Whose stature was each three eyebrows, the use of stones of hundred cubits. These devoured every valuable and select kind, all which the labor of men pro- and all sorts of dyes, so that the duced; until it became impossible world became altered. 2 Impiety increased; fornication to feed them;. multiplied; and they transgressed a. The Aramaic texts preserve an earlier and corrupted all their ways. list of names of these Watchers: 3. Amazarak taught all the sorcerers, Semihazah; Artqoph; Ramtel; Kokabel; and dividers of roots: Ramel; Danieal; Zeqiel; Baraqel; Asael; 4.

9 Hermoni; Matarel; Ananel; Stawel; Armers taught the solution of sor- Samsiel; Sahriel; Tummiel; Turiel; cery;. Yomiel; Yhaddiel (Milik, p. 151). 5 Barkayal taught the observers of b. The Greek texts vary considerably d the stars, from the Ethiopic text here. One Greek 6. manuscript adds to this section, And Akibeel taught signs;. they [the women] bore to them [the Watchers] three races first, the great c. Their flesh one after another. Or, giants. The giants brought forth [some one another's flesh. Charles notes say slew ] the Naphelim, and the that this phrase may refer to the Naphelim brought forth [or slew ] the destruction of one class of giants by Elioud. And they existed, increasing in another (Charles, p. 65). power according to their greatness. See d. Observers of the stars. Astrologers the account in the Book of Jubilees. (Charles, p.)

10 67). 4 The Book of enoch Chapter 9. 7. Tamiel taught astronomy; before you. You behold all things, 8. And Asaradel taught the motion and nothing can be concealed of the moon, from you. 5 You have seen what Azazyel has 9. And men, being destroyed, cried out; and their voice reached to done, how he has taught every heaven. species of iniquity upon earth, and has disclosed to the world all the secret things which are done in CHAPTER 9 the heavens. 1. Then Michael and Gabriel, 6. Samyaza also has taught sorcery, Raphael, Suryal, and Uriel, to whom you have given authority looked down from heaven, and over those who are associated saw the quantity of blood which with him. They have gone was shed on earth, and all the together to the daughters of men;. iniquity which was done upon it, have lain with them; have become and said one to another, It is the polluted.