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

Sect, ill.] Chapters LXXIX. 4 LXXXI. 1. 213
of the earth will be backward and not grow in their season,
and the fruits of the trees will be withheld in their season.
4. And the moon will alter her order and not appear at her
(appointed) time. 5. And in those days there will be seen
in the heaven a great unfruitfulness coming on the outermost
chariot to the west, and she (i.e. the moon) will shine more
brightly than accords with (her) order of light. 6. And
many chiefs of the superior stars will err, and these will alter
their orbits and tasks, and will not appear at the seasons pre-
scribed to them. 7. And the whole order of the stars will
be concealed from the sinners, and the thoughts of those who
dwell on the earth will err concerning them, and they will be
estranged from all their ways, and will err and take them to
be gods. 8. And evil will be multiplied upon them and
punishment will come upon them to destroy everything/]
[LXXXI. 1. And he said unto me :
' O Enoch, observe the
writing of the heavenly tablets, and read what is written
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read Ay D 0