Tag: 2 Enoch

Chapter 64 Of how the Lord calls up Enoch, and people took counsel to go and kiss him at the place called Achuzan 1 When Enoch had spoken these words to his sons, all people far and near heard how the Lord was calling Enoch. They took counsel together: 2 Let us go and kiss Enoch, and two thousand me...

Chapter 12 Of the very marvellous elements of the sun 1 And I looked and saw other flying elements of the sun, whose names are Phoenixes and Chalkydri, marvellous and wonderful, with feet and tails in the form of a lion, and a crocodile’s head, their appearance is empurpled, like the rainbow; their ...

Chapter 61 Enoch instructs his sons to keep themselves from injustice, to help others and to share 1 And now, my children, keep your hearts from every injustice, which the Lord hates. Just as a man asks something for his own soul from God, so let him do to every living soul, because I know all thing...

Chapter 63 Of how not to despise the poor, but to share with them equally, lest you be murmured against before God 1 When man clothes the naked and fills the hungry, he will find reward from God. 2 But if his heart murmur, he commits a double evil; ruin of himself and of that which he gives; and for...

Chapter 4 Of the angels ruling the stars 1 They brought before my face the elders and rulers of the stellar orders, and showed me two hundred angels, who rule the stars and their services to the heavens, and fly with their wings and come round all those who sail....

Chapter 20 Hence they took Enoch into the seventh heaven 1 And those two men lifted me up thence on to the seventh heaven, and I saw there a very great light, and fiery troops of great archangels (2), incorporeal forces, and dominions, orders and governments, cherubim and seraphim, thrones and many-...

Chapter 27 Of how God founded the water, and surrounded it with light, and established on it seven islands 1 And I commanded that there should be taken from light and darkness, and I said: Be thick, and it became thus, and I spread it out with the light, and it became water, and I spread it out over...

Chapter 3 Of Enoch's assumption; how the angels took him into the first heaven 1It came to pass, when Enoch had told his sons, that the angels took him on to their wings and bore him up on to the first heaven and placed him on the clouds. And there I looked, and again I looked higher, and saw the et...

Chapter 68 Conclusion 1 Enoch was born on the sixth day of the month Tsivan, and lived three hundred and sixty-five years. 2 He was taken up to heaven on the first day of the month Tsivan and remained in heaven sixty days. 3 He wrote all these signs of all creation, which the Lord created, and wrote...

Chapter 43 Enoch shows his children how he measured and wrote out God’s judgments 1 I, my children, measured and wrote out every work and every measure and every righteous judgment. 2 As one year is more honourable than another, so is one man more honourable than another, some for great possessions,...

Chapter 47 Enoch instructs his sons from God’s lips, and hands them the handwriting of this book 1 And now, my children, lay thought on your hearts, mark well the words of your father, which are all come to you from the Lord’s lips. 2 Take these books of your father’s handwriting and read them. 3 Fo...

Chapter 11 Here they took Enoch up on to the fourth heaven where is the course of sun and moon 1 Those men took me, and led me up on to the fourth heaven, and showed me all the successive goings, and all the rays of the light of sun and moon. 2 And I measure their goings, and compared their light, a...