1 Enoch Chapter 10: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spoke, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him:

² ’Go to Noah and tell him in my name “Hide thyself!” and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a flood is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it.

³ And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.’

⁴ And again the Lord said to Raphael: ‘Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him in it.

⁵ And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there forever, and cover his face that he may not see light.

⁶ And on the day of the great judgment he will be cast into the fire.

⁷ And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the human beings may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons.

⁸ And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.’

⁹ And to Gabriel said the Lord: ‘Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of sexual immorality: and destroy [the children of sexual immorality and] the children of the Watchers from among men [and cause them to go out]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days will they not have.

¹⁰ And no request that they (that is, their fathers) make of you will be granted to their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.’

¹¹ And the Lord said to Michael: ‘Go, bind Semjâzâ and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness.

¹² And when their sons have killed one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgment and of their consummation, till the judgment that is forever and ever is consummated.

¹³ In those days they will be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they will be confined forever.

¹⁴ And whoever will be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations.

¹⁵ And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind.

¹⁶ Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: and it will prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth will be planted in truth and joy forever.

¹⁷ And then will all the righteous escape, And will live till they beget thousands of children, And all the days of their youth and their old age Will they complete in peace.

¹⁸ And then will the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and will all be planted with trees and be full of blessing.

¹⁹ And all desirable trees will be planted on it, and they will plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant on it will yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown on it each measure (of it) will bear a thousand, and each measure of olives will yield ten presses of oil.

²⁰ And cleanse you the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is done on the earth destroy from off the earth.

²¹ And all the human beings will become righteous, and all nations will offer adoration and will praise Me, and all will worship Me.

²² And the earth will be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and forever.