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The Book of Enoch (chapters xii.-xxxvi.)

Date of account: Composite work, broadly c. 300 BCE to 100 BCE
Source: The book of Enoch
Reference: The book of Enoch · selected passage 4
Rights: public_domain
Language: Ge'ez preserved in complete form; translated from earlier Semitic and Greek textual traditions
Translation: R. H. Charles, with W. O. E. Oesterley
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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The Book of Enoch (chapters xii.-xxxvi.)

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i. _The Book of Enoch_ (chapters xii.-xxxvi.). The book opens with a Dream-Vision of Enoch. In this dream Enoch is asked to intercede for the watchers of heaven, _i. e._ the angels, who had left their heavenly home to commit iniquity with the daughters of men. He writes out the petition (cp. the title “Enoch the Scribe”) the fallen angels make, and then retires to await the answer, which comes to him in a series of visions. These visions are not quite easy to follow; they are evidently incomplete and somewhat confused; in all probability the text has suffered in transmission. At any rate, the petition is refused; Enoch declares to the fallen angels the doom which, as he has been taught in the visions, is to be their lot; the final words of the message which he is bidden to give them are: “You have no peace” (xii.-xvi.). There follow then accounts of the different journeys which Enoch makes, being conducted by angels of light, through certain parts of the earth, and through Sheol. After the account of the _first journey_ (xvii.-xix.) a short enumeration is made of the archangels, seven in number, and their functions (xx.).

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