1 Enoch Chapter 81: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ And he said to me: ‘Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets, And read what is written on it, And mark every individual fact.’

² And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was written (on it) and understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh that will be on the earth to the remotest generations.

³ And immediately I blessed the great Lord the King of glory forever, in that He has made all the works of the world, And I extolled the Lord because of His patience, And blessed Him because of the human beings.

⁴ And after that I said: ‘Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness, Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written, And against whom no day of judgment will be found.’

⁵ And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth before the door of my house, and said to me: ‘Declare everything to your son Methuselah, and show to all your children that no flesh is righteous in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator.

⁶ One year we will leave you with your son, till you give your (last) commands, that you may teach your children and record (it) for them, and testify to all your children; and in the second year they will take you from their midst.

⁷ Let your heart be strong, For the good will announce righteousness to the good; The righteous with the righteous will rejoice, And will offer congratulation to one another.

⁸ But the sinners will die with the sinners, And the apostate go down with the apostate.

⁹ And those who practise righteousness will die on account of the deeds of men, And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.’

¹⁰ And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my people, blessing the Lord of the world.