The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

Sect. II.] Chapters LIV. 8 — LV. 3. 147
are below the heavens and beneath the earth. 8. And all
the waters will be joined with the waters : that which is
above the heavens is the masculine and the water which is
beneath the earth is the feminine. 9. And all who dwell on
the earth will be destroyed and those who dwell under the
ends of the heaven. 10. And they will thereby recognise
their unrighteousness which they have committed on the earth,
and owing to this will they be destroyed.'
LV. 1. And after that the Head of Days repented and
said :
' In vain have I destroyed all who dwell on the earth/
2. And He swore by His great name : Henceforth I will
not do so (again) to all who dwell on the earth, and I will
set a sign in the heavens : this will be a pledge of good faith
between Me and them for ever, so long as heaven is above
the earth.] 3. And this will be according to My com-
mand :
when
I desire to take hold of them by the hand
of the angels on the day of tribulation and pain, before this
Din. emends by reading ȣA"H. 8. All the waters will be
joined with the waters : that which is above the heavens is
the masculine. So G M, but omitting with B the H which they
read before ?°li(l. Other MSS. and Din. give: 'And all the
waters will be joined with the waters which are above in the
heavens : the water indeed which is above in the heaven is mas-
culine.' 9. G omits who dwell on the earth, and. 10.
Owing to this will they be destroyed. So M &&&*£ and G J&X1T.
Dln/s MSS. and K L N O fDftXlfH—clearly an emendation.
LV. 1. For fth G reads flhffD. 2. Will not do so. GM
omits ' so/ 3. And this will be. So G M reading (D*H
instead of (DKy°Jl =< after this it will be/ For Vi&C G reads
8. The distinguishing of the waters illustration of the method by which
into masculine and feminine is quite in the interpolator seeks to assimilate
keeping with the other kabbalistic his additions by incorporating technical
ideas of these Interpolations: cf. lx. terms from the main text. Repented:
7, 8, 16. 9. All who dwell on cf. Gen. viii. 21. 3. Here the
the earth: see xxxvii. 5 (note). original text of liv. 6 is resumed.
LV. 1. The Head of Days : see Day of tribulation and pain : see
xlvi. 1 (note). We have here a good xlv. 2 (note). Before this Mine
L 2