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017 - Chapters 106-108 · Book of Enoch

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  Speaker 1: Section seventeen of the Book of Enoch, translated by Robert
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  Speaker 1: Henry Charles. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Fragment of the Book of Noah, Chapters one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: six and one hundred and seven. Chapter one hundred and six.
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  Speaker 1: And after some days, my son Methuselah took a wife
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  Speaker 1: for his son, Lemech, and she became pregnant by him
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  Speaker 1: and bore a son. And his body was white as snow,
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  Speaker 1: and red as the blooming of a rose, and the
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  Speaker 1: hair of his head and his long locks were white
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  Speaker 1: as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened
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  Speaker 1: his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole house was very bright. And thereupon he
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  Speaker 1: arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth
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  Speaker 1: and conversed with the Lord of Righteousness. And his father
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  Speaker 1: Lamech was afraid of him, and fled and came to
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  Speaker 1: his father Methuselah, and he sat unto him. I have
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  Speaker 1: begotten a strange son, diverse from and un like man,
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  Speaker 1: and resembling the sons of the God of Heaven. And
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  Speaker 1: his nature is different, and he is not like us,
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  Speaker 1: and his eyes are as the rays of the sun.
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  Speaker 1: And his countenance is glorious. And it seems to me
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  Speaker 1: that he has not sprung from me, but from the angels.
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  Speaker 1: And I fear that in his days a wonder may
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  Speaker 1: be wrought on the earth. And now, my father, I
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  Speaker 1: am here to petition thee and implore THEE that thou
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  Speaker 1: mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him
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  Speaker 1: the truth, for his dwelling places amongst the angels. And
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  Speaker 1: when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came
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  Speaker 1: to me to the ends of the earth, for he
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  Speaker 1: had heard that I was there. And he cried aloud,
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  Speaker 1: and I heard his voice, and I came to him,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, unto him, behold here am I, my son.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore hast thou come to me? And he answered and said,
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  Speaker 1: because of a great cause of anxiety have I come
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  Speaker 1: to thee, And because of a disturbing vision have I approached?
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  Speaker 1: And now my father hear me, unto lmech my son.
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  Speaker 1: There hath been born us son, the like of whom
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  Speaker 1: there is none. And his nature is not like man's nature.
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  Speaker 1: And the color of his body is whiter than snow
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  Speaker 1: and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the
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  Speaker 1: hair of his head is whiter than white bull, and
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  Speaker 1: his eyes are like the rays of the sun. And
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  Speaker 1: he opened his eyes, and thereupon lighted up the whole house.
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  Speaker 1: And he arose in the hands of the midwife, and
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  Speaker 1: opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of Heaven. And
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  Speaker 1: his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and
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  Speaker 1: did not believe that he was sprung from him, but
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  Speaker 1: that he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And behold, I have come to thee that thou mayst
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  Speaker 1: make known to me the truth. And I Enoch answered
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  Speaker 1: and said unto him, the Lord will do a new
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  Speaker 1: thing on the earth. And this I have already seen
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  Speaker 1: in a vision. And make known to THEE that in
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  Speaker 1: the generation of my father Jared, some of the angels
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. And behold,
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  Speaker 1: they commit sin and transgres the law, and have united
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  Speaker 1: themselves with women, and commit sin with them, and have
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  Speaker 1: married some of them, and have begot children by them.
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  Speaker 1: And they shall produce on the earth giants, not according
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  Speaker 1: to the spirit, but according to the flesh. And there
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  Speaker 1: shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the
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  Speaker 1: earth shall be cleansed from all impurity. Yea, there shall
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  Speaker 1: come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there
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  Speaker 1: shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year.
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  Speaker 1: And this son, who has been born unto you, shall
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  Speaker 1: be left on the earth, and his three children shall
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  Speaker 1: be saved with him. When all mankind that are on
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  Speaker 1: the earth shall die, he and his sons shall be saved.
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  Speaker 1: And now make known to thy son, Lamech, that he
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  Speaker 1: who has been born is in truth his son, and
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  Speaker 1: call his name Noah, for he shall be left to you,
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  Speaker 1: and he and his sons shall be saved from the
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  Speaker 1: destruction which shall come upon the earth on account of
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  Speaker 1: all the sin and all the unrighteousness which shall be
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  Speaker 1: consumate on the earth in his days. And after that
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  Speaker 1: there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was
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  Speaker 1: first consummated on the earth. For I know the mysteries
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ones, for he the Lord has showed
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  Speaker 1: me and informed me, and I have read them in
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  Speaker 1: the Heavenly Tablets Chapter one hundred and seven. And I
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  Speaker 1: saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress
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  Speaker 1: till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner
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  Speaker 1: of good comes upon it. And now my son go
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  Speaker 1: and make known to thy son, Lamech, that this son
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  Speaker 1: which has been born is in truth his son, and
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  Speaker 1: that this is no lie. And when Methuselah had heard
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  Speaker 1: the words of his father Enoch, for he had shown
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  Speaker 1: to him everything in secret, he returned and showed them
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  Speaker 1: to him, and called the name of that son Noah,
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  Speaker 1: for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred an appendix to the Book of Enoch.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred and eight, another book which Enoch wrote
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  Speaker 1: for his son Methuselah. And for those who will come
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  Speaker 1: after him and keep the law in the last days.
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  Speaker 1: Ye who have done good, shall wait for those days
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  Speaker 1: till an end is made of those who work evil,
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  Speaker 1: and an end of the might of the transgressors. And wait, ye, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: till sin has passed away. For their names shall be
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  Speaker 1: blotted out of the Book of Life and out of
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  Speaker 1: the holy books, and their seed shall be destroyed forever,
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  Speaker 1: and their spirits shall be slain. And they shall cry
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  Speaker 1: and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: and in the fire shall they burn, for there is
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  Speaker 1: no earth there. And I saw there something like an
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  Speaker 1: invisible cloud, for by reason of its depth, I could
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  Speaker 1: not look over. And I saw a flame of fire
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  Speaker 1: blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and sweeping
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  Speaker 1: to and fro. And I ask one of the holy
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  Speaker 1: ais angels who was with me, and said, unto him,
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  Speaker 1: what is this shining thing? For it is not a heaven,
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  Speaker 1: but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the
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  Speaker 1: voice of weeping and crying in lamentation and strong pain.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, unto me, this place which thou seest,
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  Speaker 1: here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and
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  Speaker 1: of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert
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  Speaker 1: everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of
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  Speaker 1: the prophets, even the things that shall be, for some
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  Speaker 1: of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven,
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  Speaker 1: in order that the angels may read them and know
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  Speaker 1: that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of
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  Speaker 1: the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies
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  Speaker 1: and been recompensed by God, and of those who have
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  Speaker 1: been put to shame by wicked men who loved God
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  Speaker 1: and loved neither gold nor silver, nor any of the
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  Speaker 1: good things which are in the world, but gave over
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  Speaker 1: their bodies to torture, who since they came into being,
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  Speaker 1: longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a
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  Speaker 1: past breath, and lived accordingly. And the Lord tried them much,
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  Speaker 1: and their spirits were found pure, so that they should
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  Speaker 1: bless His name. And all the blessings destined for them
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  Speaker 1: I have recounted in the books. And he hath assigned
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  Speaker 1: them their recompense, because they have been found to be
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  Speaker 1: such as loved heaven more than their life in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And though they were trodden under foot of wicked men,
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  Speaker 1: and experienced abuse and reviling from them, and were put
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  Speaker 1: to shame, yet they blessed me. And now I will
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  Speaker 1: summon the spirits of the good who belong to the
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  Speaker 1: generation of light. And I will transform those who were
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  Speaker 1: born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed
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  Speaker 1: with such honor as their faithfulness deserved. And I will
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  Speaker 1: bring forth in shining light those who have loved my
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  Speaker 1: holy name, and I will seat each on the throne
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  Speaker 1: of his honor, and they shall be resplendent for times
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  Speaker 1: without number. For righteousness is the judgment of God. For
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  Speaker 1: to the faithful he will give faithfulness in the habitation
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  Speaker 1: of upright path. And they shall see those who were
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  Speaker 1: born into darkness led into darkness. While the righteous shall
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  Speaker 1: be resplendent, and the sinners shall cry aloud and see
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  Speaker 1: them resplendent. And they indeed will go where days and
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  Speaker 1: seasons are prescribed for them. And of Section seventeen read
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  Speaker 1: by C. J. Plogue, and of the Book of Enoch
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  Speaker 1: translated by Robert Henry Charles