1 Enoch (Book of Enoch)Second Temple / PseudepigraphaAccepted by Some TraditionsAramaic and Hebrew fragments; full Ethiopic Ge'ez preservation with Greek and Latin witnessesShare1 Enoch 83R. H. Charles 1917 - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableR. H. Charles 1917LanguageEnglishEspañol‹1 Enoch 11 Enoch 21 Enoch 31 Enoch 41 Enoch 51 Enoch 61 Enoch 71 Enoch 81 Enoch 91 Enoch 101 Enoch 111 Enoch 121 Enoch 131 Enoch 141 Enoch 151 Enoch 161 Enoch 171 Enoch 181 Enoch 191 Enoch 201 Enoch 211 Enoch 221 Enoch 231 Enoch 241 Enoch 251 Enoch 261 Enoch 271 Enoch 281 Enoch 291 Enoch 301 Enoch 311 Enoch 321 Enoch 331 Enoch 341 Enoch 351 Enoch 361 Enoch 371 Enoch 381 Enoch 391 Enoch 401 Enoch 411 Enoch 421 Enoch 431 Enoch 441 Enoch 451 Enoch 461 Enoch 471 Enoch 481 Enoch 491 Enoch 501 Enoch 511 Enoch 521 Enoch 531 Enoch 541 Enoch 551 Enoch 561 Enoch 571 Enoch 581 Enoch 591 Enoch 601 Enoch 611 Enoch 621 Enoch 631 Enoch 641 Enoch 651 Enoch 661 Enoch 671 Enoch 681 Enoch 691 Enoch 701 Enoch 711 Enoch 721 Enoch 731 Enoch 741 Enoch 751 Enoch 761 Enoch 771 Enoch 781 Enoch 791 Enoch 801 Enoch 811 Enoch 821 Enoch 831 Enoch 841 Enoch 851 Enoch 861 Enoch 871 Enoch 881 Enoch 891 Enoch 901 Enoch 921 Enoch 911 Enoch 931 Enoch 941 Enoch 951 Enoch 961 Enoch 971 Enoch 981 Enoch 991 Enoch 1001 Enoch 1011 Enoch 1021 Enoch 1031 Enoch 1041 Enoch 1051 Enoch 1061 Enoch 1071 Enoch 108›1 Enoch 831 Enoch 83ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before thee. 2Two 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 vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. 3I 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 the earth. 4And 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 from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss. 5And thereupon a word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and said: ‘The earth is destroyed.’ 6And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me as I lay near him, and said unto me: ‘Why dost thou cry so, my son, and why dost thou make such lamentation?’ 7And 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 of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction. 8And 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 earth. 9My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth there will be great destruction.’ 10After 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. 11And 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. ‹Previous chapter1 Enoch 82Next chapter1 Enoch 84›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain in the United States via Project Gutenberg