1 Enoch Chapter 65: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was near.

² And he arose from there and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: ‘Hear me, hear me, hear me.’

³ And I said to him: ‘Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perhaps I will perish with it?’

⁴ And then there was a great commotion on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face.

⁵ And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said to me: ‘Why have you cried to me with a bitter cry and weeping?

⁶ And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers—the most secret ones—and all the power of those who practise sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth:

⁷ And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth.

⁸ For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands in it, and that angel is pre-eminent.’

⁹ And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said to me: ‘Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth.

¹⁰ And He said to me: “Because of their unrighteousness their judgment has been determined upon and will not be withheld by Me forever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it will be destroyed.”

¹¹ And these—they have no place of repentance forever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for you, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that you are pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.

¹² And He has destined your name to be among the holy, And will preserve you among those who dwell on the earth, And has destined your righteous seed both for kingship and for great honors, And from your seed will proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number forever.’