2 Enoch Chapter 61: Modernized English & Source Wording
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1 And now, my children, keep your hearts from every injustice, which the Lord hates. Just as a man asks something for his own soul from God, so let him do to every living soul, because I know all things, how in the great time to come there is much inheritance prepared for men, good for the good, and bad for the bad, without number many.
2 Blessed are those who enter the good houses, for in the bad houses there is no peace nor return from them.
3 Hear, my children, small and great! When man puts a good thought in his heart, brings gifts from his labors before the Lord’s face and his hands made them not, then the Lord will turn away his face from the labor of his hand, and (that) man cannot find the labor of his hands.
4 And if his hands made it, but his heart murmur, and his heart cease not making murmur incessantly, he has not any advantage.
Compare This Chapter with Its English Source
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.