Enoch

Enoch 93

Enoch takes up the books

1 And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from the books. 2 And Enoch said,

“Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect of the world,

And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,

Yes, I, Enoch, will declare them to you, my sons:

According to what appeared to me in the heavenly vision,

And what I have known through the word of the holy messengers,

And have learned from the heavenly tablets.”

The weeks of the world

3 And Enoch began to recount from the books and said,

“I was born the seventh in the first week,

While judgment and righteousness still endured.

4 And after me there will arise in the second week great wickedness,

And deceit will have sprung up;

And in it there will be the first end.

And in it a man will be saved;

And after it is ended unrighteousness will grow up,

And a law will be made for the sinners.

5 And after that in the third week, at its close,

A man will be chosen as the plant of righteous judgment,

And his descendants will become the plant of righteousness forever.

6 And after that in the fourth week, at its close,

Visions of the holy and righteous will be seen,

And a law for all generations and an enclosure will be made for them.

7 And after that in the fifth week, at its close,

The house of glory and dominion will be built forever.

8 And after that in the sixth week all who live in it will be blinded,

And the hearts of all of them will godlessly forsake wisdom.

And in it a man will ascend;

And at its close the house of dominion will be burned with fire,

And the whole race of the chosen root will be dispersed.

9 And after that in the seventh week an apostate generation will arise,

And many will be its deeds,

And all its deeds will be apostate.

10 And at its close will be chosen

The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness,

To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all his creation.

Who could search these things out?

11 For who is there among all the children of men who is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled? And who can think his thoughts? And who is there who can look on all the works of heaven? 12 And how should there be one who could look on the heaven, and who is there who could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could tell of it, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them? 13 And who is there among all men who could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has the measure of them all been shown? 14 Or is there anyone who could discern the length of the heaven, and how great is its height, and on what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest?”