Cinnamon trees cover a green valley as Enoch journeys onward between layered mountains in the distant east.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 30

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 30 — Beyond the fragrant valleys, Enoch encounters a valley filled with cinnamon trees.

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This scene is a visual interpretation of the chapter in the public-domain R. H. Charles translation; visionary imagery is presented symbolically without claiming details beyond the text.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 30:1–3
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another place, a valley (full) of water.
  2. 2And ⌜therein there was⌝ a tree, the colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic.
  3. 3And on the sides of those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to the east.

R. H. Charles translation (1912) · Reprinted 1917 · Public domain in the United States · Editorial brackets and uncertainty markers preserved · Source edition