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58 Tlie Booh of Enoch [gect. I
XXIX. 1. And thence I went to another place in the desert,
and approached to the east o£ this mountain range. 2. And
""there"" I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance o£ frank-
incense and myrrh, and the trees also were similar to the
almond tree.
XXX. 1. And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I
saw another place, a valley (full) of water. 2. And ''therein
there was"^ a tree, the colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic.
3. And on the sides of those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon.
And beyond these I proceeded to the east.
XXXI. 1. And I saw other mountains, and amongst them
were '^groves of^ trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar,
which is named sarara and galbanum. 2. And beyond these
mountains I saw another mountain '^to the east of the ends of
the earth'', ""whereon were aloe trees^, and all the trees were full
by avaydv v€(p6\as and the Targums
by pJJJJ p''DIO. Hence I assume that
p''D ( = vSaip) ia here a primitive cor-
ruption of pijy = 'clouds'. The word
' clouds ' is to be taken in the sense
of mist', for so Onkelos renders TK =
' mist' in Gen. 2^.
XXIX. 1. And thence. These
words E had by a slip transposed before
'
' t water ' (i. e. clouds ') in the preced'
ing verse. G^ reads en ImtOev. 2
There (E). >Gs. Aromatic trees,
G^ E read Kpicnajs SeySpa. icpiffecus ==
K3^T which, as Praetorius and Beer
have recognized, is corrupt for Nn^"lT
Hence we .'hould have here evdidrj in^
stead of Kplaias. Exhaling (G^),
E = nXeov corrupt for irviovTa (G^)
Prankincenseandmyrrh. 1^)01 njIDp,
Almond tree (G*-' Kapvais). E omits
unless we suppose kuaskuas, which
occurs without any sense in the pre-
ceding line after Trreoira, to be a corrupt
transliteration of icapvms = TpB*.
XXX. 1. Beyond (G^ lliKuva).
Here, as elsewhere, E is unable to
render this word correctly. See IS'
note. 'Went (G^ yxo/"?")- E has
here dabra ( = oprf) which seems to be
a corrupt remnant of qarabkll = ifxipt'tv.
Cf. 291 30'. Afar (G^). E 'net
afar'. Another. + 'great' G^. Water.
H- ' like that which fails not ' E—a gloss ?
2. Therein there was a tree {G^).
E = ' I saw a beautiful tree '. The
colour (G^ xpoa)^ E = ojxoiov— the
same in sense. For XP""- Radermacher
conjectui'es
cinnamon.
x^"'?' 3- Fragrant
G ^ E have here the strange
phrase /ctwafjaipioi/ dpaifiaTcoVj which is
a, rendering of DB'3"iD3i5. See Exod.
30*^. Beyond. E misrenders here :
see 18" note.
XXXI. 1. Groves of (G^). > E.
Nectar = IDpJ. E prefixes ' as it
were'. Sarara (E). G^ aappav = a
transliteration of '"iV a kind of balsam.
Galbanum = xaA^dj'T; = n33?n. 2.
Beyond. E misrenders. Cf'.' 18° note.
To the east of the ends of the earth
(G^).>E. Whereon were aloe trees
(E). >Ge. Observe that G^ and E
are complementary. The former gives
the habitat of the trees—the furthest
east—but not their name. E omits
the habitat but supplies the name.