1 Enoch Chapter 85: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to you, my son.

² And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spoke to his son Methuselah: ‘To you, my son, will I speak: hear my words—incline your ear to the dream-vision of your father.

³ Before I took your mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and see a bull came out from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came out a heifer, and along with this (latter) came out two bulls, one of them black and the other red.

⁴ And that black bull gored the red one and pursued him over the earth, and then I could no longer see that red bull.

⁵ But that black bull grew and that heifer went with him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and followed him.’

⁶ And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him.

⁷ And I looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time onward she cried no longer.

⁸ And after that she bore another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows.

⁹ And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a great white bull, and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they resembled him.

¹⁰ And they began to beget many white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other, (even) many.