Enoch 106

1 And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. [a] 2 And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes were beautiful. And when he opened his eyes, he lit up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright. 3 And then he rose up in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and spoke with the Lord of righteousness. 4 And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and came to his father Methuselah. 5 And he said to him, “I have fathered a strange son, different from and unlike a man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven. His nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and his face is glorious. 6 And it seems to me that he did not come from me but from the messengers, and I am afraid that in his days a wonder may happen on the earth. [c] 7 And now, my father, I am here to ask you and to beg you to go to Enoch, our father, and learn the truth from him, for his dwelling place is among the messengers.”

8 And when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me at the ends of the earth, for he had heard that I was there. And he cried aloud, and I heard his voice and came to him. And I said to him, “Here I am, my son. Why have you come to me?” 9 And he answered and said, “I have come to you because of a great cause of anxiety, and I have drawn near because of a disturbing vision. 10 And now, my father, hear me: a son has been born to Lamech my son, and there is none like him. His nature is not like a man’s nature, and the color of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun. And he opened his eyes, and at once he lit up the whole house. 11 And he rose up in the hands of the midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven. 12 And his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that the child had come from him, but that he was in the likeness of the messengers of heaven. And I have come to you so that you may make the truth known to me.”

13 And I, Enoch, answered and said to him, “The Lord will do a new thing on the earth, and I have already seen this in a vision and make it known to you: that in the generation of my father Jared some of the messengers of heaven broke the word of the Lord. 14 And look, they commit sin and break the law, and have united themselves with women and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have fathered children by them. 17 And they will produce giants on the earth, not according to the spirit but according to the flesh, and there will be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth will be cleansed from all impurity. [d] 15 Yes, there will come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there will be a flood and a great destruction for one year. 16 And this son who has been born to you will be left on the earth, and his three children will be saved with him. When all mankind that are on the earth die, he and his sons will be saved. 18 And now make known to your son Lamech that the one who has been born is truly his son, and call his name Noah, for he will be left to you, and he and his sons will be saved from the destruction that will come on the earth because of all the sin and all the unrighteousness that will be completed on the earth in his days. 19 And after that there will be still more unrighteousness than what was first completed on the earth, for I know the secrets of the holy ones, because he, the Lord, has shown me and made it known to me, and I have read them in the heavenly tablets.”