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

Sect. IV] Chapters LXXXV. B—LXXXVI. 3 187
order to seek that red one^ but found him not, and lamented with
a great lamentation over him and sought him. 7. And I looked
till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that
time onward she cried no more. 8. And after that she bore
another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls and
black cows.
9. And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and
become a great white bull, and from him proceeded many white
bulls, and they resembled him. 10. And they began to beget
many white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other,
(even) many.
T/ie Fall of the Angels and the Demoralization of Mankind.
LXXXVI. 1. And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and
I saw the heaven above, and behold a star fell from heaven,
and it arose and eat and pastured amongst those oxen. 2. And
after that I saw the large and the black oxen, and behold they all
changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to
live with each other. 3. And again I saw in the vision, and
looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many stars descend
Over him (dibehli q). g 'with re- Shim. Ber. 44 (see Weber, Juih Theoh
gard to him' (habehft); mt,0 'there- 253) Azazel and Shemjaza descended toiipon'
(s&beha). According to Jub. 4' gether, but only the former was guilty
' Adam and Eve mourned for Abel of sin with the daughters of men.
twenty-eight years'. In 'mourning' 2. And after that (i3). mg ' ^"'l
there is here as in our text a play these'; i! ' and in the midst'; »t 'and',
on the word Abel, though the former > g. To live with each other, g
is b^X .intl the latter ^3n. 8. Another white bull {mt, 0). gqit
reads jahajSwlJi = ' to live one to another';
a-(/, ^ ja'awajewft, 'to lament
' a pair of white oxen ',
a sister to be his wife.
i. c. Seth nnd
On the latter
one to ('with' 0) another'.
latter reading is not satisfactory.
The
The
see Jub. 4*. ^^. Black cows. The black bulls did not leave their pastures,
adjective 'black' belongs probably to &c. simply to engage in lamentation,
the 'bulls' also. 9. Bull. Ren- The time for lamentation does not
dering of sor ; see verse 3. This bull arrive till verse 6. Thus ja'awajewti
is Seth. The descendants of Seth are may be an emendation of g jahajgwfl.
likewise righteous like their progenitor. But the construction that follows ' one
Many {gmqt). > 0. to another' (o) seems impossible. If
LXXXVI. 1. A star, i. c. Azazel. we read ' ' to live we must adopt the
Cf. 88^ 10* "'''. According to Jalkut text in what follows, i.e. 'with each