2 Enoch Chapter 65: Modernized English & Source Wording

The Slavonic Book · Lightly modernized English

Switch Between Modernized and Source Wording

Use the wording buttons beneath Chapters and Narrate chapter in the interactive reader to change versions without leaving this chapter.

Read This Chapter in Modernized English

¹ And Enoch answered all his people saying: Hear, my children, before that all creatures were created, the Lord created the visible (physical) and invisible (spiritual) things.

² And as much time as there was and went past, understand that after all that he created man in the likeness of his own form, and put into him eyes to see, and ears to hear, and heart to reflect, and intellect with which to deliberate.

³ And the Lord saw all man’s works, and created all his creatures, and divided time, from time he fixed the years, and from the years he appointed the months, and from the months he appointed the days, and of days he appointed seven.

⁴ And in those he appointed the hours, measured them out exactly, that man might reflect on time and count years, months, and hours, (their) alternation, beginning, and end, and that he might count his own life, from the beginning until death, and reflect on his sin and write his work bad and good; because no work is hidden before the Lord, that every man might know his works and never disobey all his commandments, and keep my handwriting from generation to generation.

⁵ When all creation visible (physical) and invisible (spiritual), as the Lord created it, will end, then every man goes to the great judgment, and then all time will perish, and the years, and thenceforward there will be neither months nor days nor hours, they will be adhered together and will not be counted.

⁶ There will be one aeon, and all the righteous who will escape the Lord’s great judgment, will be collected in the great aeon, for the righteous the great aeon will begin, and they will live eternally, and then too there will be among them neither labor, nor sickness, nor humiliation, nor anxiety, nor need, nor brutality, nor night, nor darkness, but great light.

⁷ And they will have a great indestructible wall, and a paradise bright and incorruptible (eternal), for all corruptible (mortal) things will pass away, and there will be eternal life.