Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
7. Let thy heart be strong,
For the good shall announce righteousness to the good;
The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice,
And shall offer congratulation to one another.
8. But the sinners shall die with the sinners,
And the apostate go down with the apostate.
9. And those who practise righteousness shall die on account of the
deeds of men,
And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.’
10. And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my
people, blessing the Lord of the world.
LXXXII. _Charge given to Enoch: the four Intercalary Days: the Stars
which lead the Seasons and the Months._
LXXXII. 1. And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting
to thee and writing down for thee, and I have revealed to thee
everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my
son Methuselah, the books from thy father’s hand, and (see) that thou
deliver them to the generations of the world.
2. I have given wisdom to thee and to thy children,
[And thy children that shall be to thee],
That they may give it to their children for generations,
This wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.
3. And those who understand it shall not sleep,
But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,
And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.
4. Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the
way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners in the reckoning of all
their days in which the sun traverses the heaven, entering into and
departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands
of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated
which divide the four portions of the year, which lead them and enter
with them four days. 5. Owing to them men shall be at fault and not
reckon them in the =whole reckoning of the year=: yea, men shall be at
fault, and not recognize them accurately. 6. For they belong to the
reckoning of the year and are truly recorded (thereon) for ever, one in
the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in
the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four
days.
7. And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning
thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years
and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me, =to whom= the Lord of the
whole creation of the world has =subjected= the host of heaven. 8. And
he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give
light to men—sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven
which revolve in their circular chariots. 9. And these are the orders of
the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals
and months.
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