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The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the…

Date of account: Composite work, broadly c. 300 BCE to 100 BCE
Source: The book of Enoch
Reference: The book of Enoch · selected passage 13
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 the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision

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XIV. 1. The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. 2. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to men to converse therewith and understand with the heart. 3. As He hath created and given 〚to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He created me also and given〛 me the power of reprimanding the Watchers, the children of heaven. 4. I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you 〚throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not be granted unto you〛. 5. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and ⌜in bonds⌝ of the earth the decree has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world. 6. And (that) previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and you shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword. 7.

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