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One angel gives Enoch two smooth luminous tablets at the doorway of his ancient home beneath a quiet golden sky.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 81

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 81 — Enoch reads the heavenly record and receives one final year to teach Methuselah and testify to his children.

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One guiding angel represents the seven holy ones without risking an incorrect group count, and the tablets remain blank to avoid invented heavenly writing.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 81:1–10
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And he said unto me: ‘Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets, And read what is written thereon, And mark every individual fact.’
  2. 2And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was written (thereon) and understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations.
  3. 3And forthwith I blessed the great Lord, the King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the works of the world. And I extolled the Lord because of His patience, And blessed Him because of the children of men.
  4. 4And after that I said: ‘Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness, Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written, And against whom no day of judgement shall be found.’
  5. 5And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth before the door of my house, and said to me: ‘Declare everything to thy son Methuselah, and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator.
  6. 6One year we will leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy (last) commands, that thou mayest teach thy children and record (it) for them, and testify to all thy children; and in the second year they shall take thee from their midst.
  7. 7Let 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. 8But the sinners shall die with the sinners, And the apostate go down with the apostate.
  9. 9And 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. 10And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my people, blessing the Lord of the world.

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