Book of Enoch : Dreams
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Dreams
Chapter 83
1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my
visions which I have seen, recounting
2 them before thee. Two visions I saw before I took a
wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first
when I was learning to write: the second before I took
thy mother, (when) I saw a terrible
3 vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had
laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel,
(when) I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and
was borne off and fell to
4 the earth. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the
earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains
were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on
hills, and high trees were rent
5 from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the
abyss. And thereupon a word fell into my mouth,
6 and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and said: The
earth is destroyed. And my grandfather Mahalalel waked
me as I lay near him, and said unto me: Why dost thou
cry so, my son, and why
7 dost thou make such lamentation? And I recounted to
him the whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto
me: A terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and of
grave moment is thy dream- vision as to the secrets if
all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss
and be destroyed with
8 a great destruction. And now, my son, arise and make
petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a
believer, that a remnant may remain on the earth, and
that He may not destroy the whole
9 earth. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the
earth, and upon the earth there will be great
10 destruction. After that I arose and prayed and
implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the
generations of the world, and I will show everything to
thee, my son Methuselah. And when I had gone forth below
and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and
the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the
whole earth, and everything as He had known it in the
beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgement and
extolled Him because He had made the sun to go forth
from the windows of the east, and he ascended and rose
on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept
traversing the path shown unto him.
Chapter 84
1 And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed
the Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my
mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made
for the children of the flesh of men, that they should
speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a tongue
and a mouth that they should speak therewith:
2 Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,
Great and mighty in Thy greatness,
Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,
King of kings and God of the whole world.
And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever
and ever,
And throughout all generations Thy dominion;
And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,
And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
3 For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom departs not from the place of Thy throne,
Nor turns away from Thy presence.
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,
And there is nothing hidden from Theefor Thou seest
everything.
4 And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of
trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the
great day of judgement.
5 And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,
To leave me a posterity on earth,
And not destroy all the flesh of man,
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal destruction.
6 And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh
which has aroused Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish
as a plant of the eternal seed,
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O
Lord.
Chapter 85
1,2 And after this I saw another dream, and I will show
the whole dream to thee, my son. And Enoch lifted up
(his voice) and spake to his son Methuselah: To thee, my
son, will I speak: hear my words-incline thine ear to
the dream-vision of thy father.
3 Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my
bed, and behold a bull came forth from the earth, and
that bull was white; and after it came forth a heifer,
and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one
of them black and
4 the other red. And that black bull gored the red one
and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon 5 I could
no longer see that red bull. But that black bull grew
and that heifer went with him, and
6 I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which
resembled and followed him. And that cow, that first
one, went from the presence of that first bull in order
to seek that red one, but found him
7 not, and lamented with a great lamentation over him
and sought him. And I looked till that first
8 bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time
onward she cried no more. And after that she bore
another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls
and black cows.
9 And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow
and become a great white bull, and from Him proceeded
many white bulls, and they resembled him. And they began
to beget many white bulls, which resembled them, one
following the other, (even) many.
Chapter 86
1 And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw
the heaven above, and behold a star fell
2 from heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured amongst
those oxen. And after that I saw the large and the black
oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and
pastures and their cattle, and began
3 to live with each other. And again I saw in the
vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw
many stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven
to that first star, and they became
4 bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with
themamongst them. And I looked at them and saw, and
behold they all let out their privy members, like
horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen,
5 and they all became pregnant and bare elephants,
camels, and asses. And all the oxen feared them and were
affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth
and to devour, and to gore with their
6 horns. And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen;
and behold all the children of the earth began to
tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.
Chapter 87
1 And again I saw how they began to gore each other and
to devour each other, and the earth
2 began to cry aloud. And I raised mine eyes again to
heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came
forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and
four went forth from that place
3 and three with them. And those three that had last
come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away
from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a
lofty place, and showed me
4 a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills
were lower. And one said unto me: Remain here till thou
seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels,
and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.
Chapter 88
1 And I saw one of those four who had come forth first,
and he seized that first star which had fallen from the
heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into an
abyss: now that abyss was
2 narrow and deep, and horrible and dark. And one of
them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and
camels and asses: then they began to smite each other,
and the whole earth quaked
3 because of them. And as I was beholding in the vision,
lo, one of those four who had come forth stoned (them)
from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars
whose privy members were like those of horses, and bound
them all hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the
earth.
Chapter 89
1 And one of those four went to that white bull and
instructed him in a secret, without his being terrified:
he was born a bull and became a man, and built for
himself a great vessel and dwelt thereon;
2 and three bulls dwelt with him in that vessel and they
were covered in. And again I raised mine eyes towards
heaven and saw a lofty roof, with seven water torrents
thereon, and those torrents
3 flowed with much water into an enclosure. And I saw
again, and behold fountains were opened on the surface
of that great enclosure, and that water began to swell
and rise upon the surface,
4 and I saw that enclosure till all its surface was
covered with water. And the water, the darkness, and
mist increased upon it; and as I looked at the height of
that water, that water had risen above the height of
that enclosure, and was streaming over that enclosure,
and it stood upon the earth.
5 And all the cattle of that enclosure were gathered
together until I saw how they sank and were
6 swallowed up and perished in that water. But that
vessel floated on the water, while all the oxen and
elephants and camels and asses sank to the bottom with
all the animals, so that I could no longer see them,
7 and they were not able to escape, (but) perished and
sank into the depths. And again I saw in the vision till
those water torrents were removed from that high roof,
and the chasms
8 of the earth were leveled up and other abysses were
opened. Then the water began to run down into these,
till the earth became visible; but that vessel settled
on the earth, and the darkness
9 retired and light appeared. But that white bull which
had become a man came out of that vessel, and the three
bulls with him, and one of those three was white like
that bull, and one of them was red as blood, and one
black: and that white bull departed from them.
10 And they began to bring forth beasts of the field and
birds, so that there arose different genera: lions,
tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes,
squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and
ravens;
11 and among them was born a white bull. And they began
to bite one another; but that white bull which was born
amongst them begat a wild ass and a white bull with it,
and the 12 wild asses multiplied. But that bull which
was born from him begat a black wild boar and a white
13 sheep; and the former begat many boars, but that
sheep begat twelve sheep. And when those twelve sheep
had grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and
those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves,
14 and that sheep grew up among the wolves. And the Lord
brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture
with it among the wolves: and they multiplied and became
many flocks of sheep.
15And the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed
them until they destroyed
16 cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to
complain unto their Lord. And a sheep which had been
saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild
asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried,
and besought their Lord with all their might, till that
Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the sheep
from a lofty abode, and came to them and pastured them.
17 And He called that sheep which had escaped the
wolves, and spake with it concerning the wolves that it
should
18 admonish them not to touch the sheep. And the sheep
went to the wolves according to the word of the Lord,
and another sheep met it and went with it, and the two
went and entered together into the assembly of those
wolves, and spake with them and admonished them not to
touch the
19 sheep from henceforth. And thereupon I saw the
wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep
20 exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cried
aloud. And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to
smite those wolves: and the wolves began to make
lamentation; but the sheep became
21 quiet and forthwith ceased to cry out. And I saw the
sheep till they departed from amongst the wolves; but
the eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves
departed in pursuit of the sheep
22 with all their power. And the Lord of the sheep went
with them, as their leader, and all His sheep
23 followed Him: and his face was dazzling and glorious
and terrible to behold. But the wolves
24 began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea
of water. And that sea was divided, and the water stood
on this side and on that before their face, and their
Lord led them and placed Himself between
25 them and the wolves. And as those wolves did not yet
see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of that
sea, and the wolves followed the sheep, and those wolves
ran after them into that sea.
26 And when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned
to flee before His face, but that sea gathered itself
together, and became as it had been created, and the
water swelled and rose till it covered
27 those wolves. And I saw till all the wolves who
pursued those sheep perished and were drowned.
28 But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth
into a wilderness, where there was no water and no
grass; and they began to open their eyes and to see; and
I saw the Lord of the sheep
29 pasturing them and giving them water and grass, and
that sheep going and leading them. And that
30 sheep ascended to the summit of that lofty rock, and
the Lord of the sheep sent it to them. And after that I
saw the Lord of the sheep who stood before them, and His
appearance was great and
31 terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him
and were afraid before His face. And they all feared and
trembled because of Him, and they cried to that sheep
with them which was amongst
32 them: We are not able to stand before our Lord or to
behold Him. And that sheep which led them again ascended
to the summit of that rock, but the sheep began to be
blinded and to wander
33 from the way which he had showed them, but that sheep
wot not thereof. And the Lord of the sheep was wrathful
exceedingly against them, and that sheep discovered it,
and went down from the summit of the rock, and came to
the sheep, and found the greatest part of them blinded
and fallen
34 away. And when they saw it they feared and trembled
at its presence, and desired to return to their
35 folds. And that sheep took other sheep with it, and
came to those sheep which had fallen away, and began to
slay them; and the sheep feared its presence, and thus
that sheep brought back those
36 sheep that had fallen away, and they returned to
their folds. And I saw in this vision till that sheep
became a man and built a house for the Lord of the
sheep, and placed all the sheep in that house.
37 And I saw till this sheep which had met that sheep
which led them fell asleep: and I saw till all the great
sheep perished and little ones arose in their place, and
they came to a pasture, and
38 approached a stream of water. Then that sheep, their
leader which had become a man, withdrew
39 from them and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought
it and cried over it with a great crying. And I saw till
they left off crying for that sheep and crossed that
stream of water, and there arose the two sheep as
leaders in the place of those which had led them and
fallen asleep (lit. had fallen asleep and led
40 them ). And I saw till the sheep came to a goodly
place, and a pleasant and glorious land, and I saw till
those sheep were satisfied; and that house stood amongst
them in the pleasant land.
41 And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes
blinded, till another sheep arose and led them and
brought them all back, and their eyes were opened. 42
And the dogs and the foxes and the wild boars began to
devour those sheep till the Lord of the sheep raised up
another sheep a ram from their
43 midst, which led them. And that ram began to butt on
either side those dogs, foxes, and wild
44 boars till he had destroyed them all. And that sheep
whose eyes were opened saw that ram, which was amongst
the sheep, till it forsook its glory and began to butt
those sheep, and trampled upon them, and behaved itself
45 unseemly. And the Lord of the sheep sent the lamb to
another lamb and raised it to being a ram and leader of
the sheep instead of that
46 ram which had forsaken its glory. And it went to it
and spake to it alone, and raised it to being a ram, and
made it the prince and leader of the sheep; but during
all these things those dogs
47 oppressed the sheep. And the first ram pursued that
second ram, and that second ram arose and fled before
it; and I saw till those dogs pulled
48 down the first ram. And that second ram arose
48b and led the little sheep. And those sheep grew and
multiplied; but all the dogs, and foxes, and wild boars
feared and fled before it, and that ram butted and
killed the wild beasts, and those wild beasts had no
longer any power among the 49sheep and robbed them no
more of ought. And that ram begat many sheep and fell
asleep; and a little sheep became ram in its stead, and
became prince and leader of those sheep
50 And that house became great and broad, and it was
built for those sheep: (and) a tower lofty and great was
built on the house for the Lord of the sheep, and that
house was low, but the tower was elevated and lofty, and
the Lord of the sheep stood on that tower and they
offered a full table before Him.
51 And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and
went many ways, and forsook that their house, and the
Lord of the sheep called some from amongst the sheep and
sent them to the sheep,
52 but the sheep began to slay them. And one of them was
saved and was not slain, and it sped away and cried
aloud over the sheep; and they sought to slay it, but
the Lord of the sheep saved it from
53 the sheep, and brought it up to me, and caused it to
dwell there. And many other sheep He sent to those sheep
to testify unto them and lament over them.
54 And after that I saw that when they forsook the house
of the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely, and
their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of the sheep
how He wrought much slaughter amongst them in their
herds until 55 those sheep invited that slaughter and
betrayed His place. And He gave them over into the hands
of the lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into
the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild
56 beasts, and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces
those sheep. And I saw that He forsook that their house
and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the
lions, to tear and devour them,
57 into the hand of all the wild beasts. And I began to
cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to the Lord
of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the
sheep that they were devoured
58 by all the wild beasts. But He remained unmoved,
though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured
and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured
in the hand of all the beasts. 59 And He called seventy
shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they might
pasture them, and He spake to the shepherds and their
companions: Let each individual of you pasture the sheep
60 henceforward, and everything that I shall command you
that do ye. And I will deliver them over unto you duly
numbered, and tell you which of them are to be
destroyed-and them destroy ye. And
61 He gave over unto them those sheep. And He called
another and spake unto him: Observe and mark everything
that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will
destroy more of them than
62 I have commanded them. And every excess and the
destruction which will be wrought through the shepherds,
record (namely) how many they destroy according to my
command, and how many according to their own caprice:
record against every individual shepherd all the
destruction he
63 effects. And read out before me by number how many
they destroy, and how many they deliver over for
destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against
them, and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may
comprehend and see what they do, whether or not they
abide by my
64 command which I have commanded them. But they shall
not know it, and thou shalt not declare it to them, nor
admonish them, but only record against each individual
all the destruction which
65 the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all
before me. And I saw till those shepherds pastured in
their season, and they began to slay and to destroy more
than they were bidden, and they delivered
66 those sheep into the hand of the lions. And the lions
and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those
sheep, and the wild boars eat along with them; and they
burnt that tower and demolished
67 that house. And I became exceedingly sorrowful over
that tower because that house of the sheep was
demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those
sheep entered that house.
68 And the shepherds and their associates delivered over
those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour them, and
each one of them received in his time a definite number:
it was written by the other
69 in a book how many each one of them destroyed of
them. And each one slew and destroyed many
70 more than was prescribed; and I began to weep and
lament on account of those sheep. And thus in the vision
I saw that one who wrote, how he wrote down every one
that was destroyed by those shepherds, day by day, and
carried up and laid down and showed actually the whole
book to the Lord of the sheep-(even) everything that
they had done, and all that each one of them had made
71 away with, and all that they had given over to
destruction. And the book was read before the Lord of
the sheep, and He took the book from his hand and read
it and sealed it and laid it down.
72 And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for
twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep turned
back and came and entered and began to build up all that
had fallen down of that
73 house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but
they were not able. And they began again to build as
before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named
the high tower; and they began again to place a table
before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted
and not pure.
74 And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were
blinded so that they saw not, and (the eyes of) their
shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large
numbers to their shepherds for 75 destruction, and they
trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them.
And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the
sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with
them (the beasts),
76 and they (the shepherds) did not save them out of the
hand of the beasts. And this one who wrote the book
carried it up, and showed it and read it before the Lord
of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and
besought Him on their account as he showed Him all the
doings
77 of the shepherds, and gave testimony before Him
against all the shepherds. And he took the actual book
and laid it down beside Him and departed.
Chapter 90
1 And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five
shepherds undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and
they severally completed their periods as did the first;
and others receive them into their 2 hands, to pasture
them for their period, each shepherd in his own period.
And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of
heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the
ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began
to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to
3 devour their flesh. And the sheep cried out because
their flesh was being devoured by the birds,
4 and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over
that shepherd who pastured the sheep. And I saw until
those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and
kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew
remaining on them till only their bones stood there: and
their bones too fell
5 to the earth and the sheep became few. And I saw until
that twenty-three had undertaken the pasturing and
completed in their several periods fifty-eight times. 6
But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and
they began to open their eyes and to see,
7 and to cry to the sheep. Yea, they cried to them, but
they did not hearken to what they said to
8 them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were
very exceedingly blinded. And I saw in the vision how
the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one of those
lambs, and dashed the sheep
9 in pieces and devoured them. And I saw till horns grew
upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their horns;
and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of
those sheep, and their eyes
10 were opened. And it looked at themand their eyes
opened, and it cried to the sheep, and the
11 rams saw it and all ran to it.
12And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures
and ravens and kites
13 still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon
them
14and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent,
but the rams lamented and cried out.
15 And those ravens fought and battled with it and
sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over
it.
16 All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites were
gathered together,
17 and there came with them all the sheep of the field,
18 yea, they all came together, and helped each other to
break that horn of the ram.
19 And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep,
and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the
field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of
the heaven fled before their face. And I saw that man,
who wrote the book according to the command of the Lord,
till he opened that book concerning the destruction
which those twelve last shepherds had wrought, and
showed that they had destroyed much more than their
predecessors, before the Lord of the sheep. And I saw
till the Lord of the sheep came unto them and took in
His hand the staff of His wrath, and smote the earth,
and the earth clave asunder, and all the beasts and all
the birds of the heaven fell from among those sheep, and
were swallowed up in the earth and it covered them.
20 And I saw till a throne was erected in the pleasant
land, and the Lord of the sheep sat Himself thereon, and
the other took the sealed books and opened those books
before the Lord of the sheep.
21 And the Lord called those men the seven first white
ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him,
beginning with the first star which led the way, all the
stars whose privy members
22 were like those of horses, and they brought them all
before Him. And He said to that man who wrote before
Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said unto
him: Take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered
the sheep, and who taking them on their own authority
slew more
23 than I commanded them. And behold they were all
bound, I saw, and they all stood before Him.
24 And the judgement was held first over the stars, and
they were judged and found guilty, and went to the place
of condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss, full
of fire and flaming, and full
25 of pillars of fire. And those seventy shepherds were
judged and found guilty, and they were cast
26 into that fiery abyss. And I saw at that time how a
like abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full of
fire, and they brought those blinded sheep, and they
were all judged and found guilty and
27 cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this
abyss was to the right of that house. And I saw those
sheep burning and their bones burning.
28 And I stood up to see till they folded up that old
house; and carried off all the pillars, and all the
beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time
folded up with it, and they carried
29 it off and laid it in a place in the south of the
land. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new
house greater and loftier than that first, and set it up
in the place of the first which had beer folded up: all
its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and
larger than those of the first, the old one which He had
taken away, and all the sheep were within it.
30 And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all
the beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the
heaven, falling down and doing homage to those sheep and
making petition to and obeying
31 them in every thing. And thereafter those three who
were clothed in white and had seized me by my handwho
had taken me up before, and the hand of that ram also
seizing hold of me, they
32 took me up and set me down in the midst of those
sheep before the judgement took place. And those
33 sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and
clean. And all that had been destroyed and dispersed,
and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of
the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the
sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good
and had returned to
34 His house. And I saw till they laid down that sword,
which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it
back into the house, and it was sealed before the
presence of the Lord, and all the sheep
35 were invited into that house, but it held them not.
And the eyes of them all were opened, and they
36 saw the good, and there was not one among them that
did not see. And I saw that that house was large and
broad and very full.
37 And I saw that a white bull was born, with large
horns and all the beasts of the field and all the
38 birds of the air feared him and made petition to him
all the time. of And I saw till all their generations
were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and
the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became
a great animal and had great black horns on its head;
and the Lord of the sheep
39 rejoiced over it and over all the oxen. And I slept
in their midst: and I awoke and saw everything.
40 This is the vision which I saw while I slept, and I
awoke and blessed the Lord of righteousness and
41 gave Him glory. Then I wept with a great weeping and
my tears stayed not till I could no longer endure it:
when I saw, they flowed on account of what I had seen;
for everything shall come and
42 be fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their order
were shown to me. On that night I remembered the first
dream, and because of it I wept and was troubled-because
I had seen that vision.