Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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; and among them was born a white bull. 11. 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 wild asses multiplied. 12.
But that bull which was born from him begat a black wild boar and a
white sheep; and the former begat many boars, but that sheep begat
twelve sheep. 13. 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, and that sheep grew up among the wolves. 14. 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. 15. And
the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed them until they
destroyed their little ones, and they cast their young into a river of
much water: but those sheep began to cry aloud on account of their
little ones, and to complain unto their Lord. 16. 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 admonish them not to touch the
sheep. 18. 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 sheep from henceforth. 19. And
thereupon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly
with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud. 20. 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 quiet and forthwith ceased to
cry out. 21. 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 with all their power. 22. And the Lord
of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep followed
Him: and His face was dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold. 23.
But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of
water. 24. 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 them and the wolves. 25. 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.
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