2 Enoch Chapter 53: Modernized English & Source Wording
The Slavonic Book · Lightly modernized English
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1 And now, my children, do not say: Our father is standing before God, and is praying for our sins, for there is there no helper of any man who has sinned.
2 You see how I wrote all works of every man, before his creation, (all) that is done among all men for all time, and none can tell or relate my handwriting, because the Lord see all imaginings of man, how they are vain, where they lie in the treasure-houses of the heart.
3 And now, my children, mark well all the words of your father, that I tell you, lest you regret, saying: Why did our father not tell us?
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The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, in The Forgotten Books of Eden (1926), edited by Rutherford H. Platt Jr.; Wikisource transcription. This 68-chapter edition does not include the Melchizedek continuation found in some other editions. This reading edition lightly modernizes historical English; source wording remains available.