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A dim moon and wandering stars hang above late fruit, parched fields, withheld rain, and distant people beneath a threatening sky.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 80

Read the chapter and trace carefully labeled connections throughout the Bible.

CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 80 — Human sin brings disorder to seasons and luminaries as people mistake the wandering lights for gods.

About this illustration

The altered harvest and sky visualize the text’s moral warning without presenting a scientific prediction; the distant figures and lights avoid defining a specific historical cult.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 80:1–8
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: ‘Behold, I have shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have revealed everything to thee that thou shouldest see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.
  2. 2And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened, And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields, And all things on the earth shall alter, And shall not appear in their time: And the rain shall be kept back, And the heaven shall withhold (it).
  3. 3And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward, And shall not grow in their time, And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
  4. 4And the moon shall alter her order, And not appear at her time.
  5. 5[And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening †on the extremity of the great chariot in† the west] And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
  6. 6And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order (prescribed); And these shall alter their orbits and tasks, And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
  7. 7And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners, And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them, [And they shall be altered from all their ways], Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
  8. 8And evil shall be multiplied upon them, And punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.’

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