the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

22 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. I
because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the earth.
11. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and
Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou
dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'
X. 1. Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One
spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him
2. ' (Go to Noah and) tell him in my name " IJide thyself ! ", and
reveal to him the end that is aj)proaching : that the A^'hole earth
will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole
earth, and will destroy all that is on it. 3. And now instruct
him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the
generations of the world.' 4. And again the Lord said to
read e^fKSttt/ = pD3D? corrupt for
' pDEtD? = cease'. Tlie lamentations
must keep ascending to heaven with-
out ceatsin"' because of the deeds of
violence on earth. 11. Seest (G").
E 'knowest'. Dost suffer them
(G''"). E = TO fis avTovs corrupt for
fSj avTov^.
X. 1. Said. So Gs». E. om. The
Holy and Great One (E). GB"And
the Great Holy One'. Uriel (G»).
Qs 'laTpaT]X. E is corrupt. 2.
{Go to Noah and.) Kestored fronr
G^ nopfvov npus rov Nwf Koi. This
phrase belonged to the original, though
already lost in the archetype of E. It
belongs to the original, for each new
command issued to the angels begins
with the word 'go'. Cf. G» 10*,"! ".
3. And now (E). Gs 'and'. >G».
G' is here much fuller: 'Instruct the
righteous (man) what he is to do,
(even) the son of Lamech, and he will
preserve his soul unto life and escape
through the world, and from him will
be planted a plant, and it will be
established throughout all the genera-
tions of the world.' Of the world.
«, G*'. > E-)i. 4. Azazel is pun-
ished in a, place by himself. In his
case as in that of his followers the
place of punishment is in the valleys
of the earth hi ilte Nuah sections of
the book, but in the genuine Enoch
beyond the earth. Azazel as the
chief offender and leader is first pun-
ished. The preliminary punishment of
Azazel is described in vv. 4, 5 : the
final one in ver. 6. Azazel was con-
ceived as chained in the wilderness
into which the scapegoat was led. The
Jerusalem Targum (Ps. Jonathan) on
Leviticus says that the goat was sent
to die in a hard and rough place in the
wilderness of jagged rocks, i.e. Beth
Chaduda. The passage in Ps. Jon.
on Lev. 16-1-22 is as follows : TltaS'l
xn^as n^ Niaj iiDsn . . . nnn
n^a
NHiiD pj; N-i^as piD''i pisT Knanop
nnn nUI. 'And they will send it
by the hand of a man . . . that it may
go into the precipitous desert, which
is Beth Chadure . . . and the man will
send the goat into the precipitous
wilderness, and the goat will ascend
the mountains of Beth Chadure.' In
the Mishna (Joma 6*) we find this
word written inn n 'Chadftde'. This
Beth Chaduda was three miles (Joma
C8), or according to another account,
twelve miles from Jerusalem. This is
clearly the Dudael mentioned in this
: