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

22 8 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. IV.
4. And that black young bull gored the red one and pursued him
over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see that red
young bull. 5. But that black young bull grew and a heifer
joined him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him
which resembled and followed him. 6. And that cow, that
first one, went from the presence of that first bull in order to
seek that red young bull, but found him not, and thereupon
raised a great lamentation and (still) kept seeking him. 7.
And I looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her,
and from that hour onward she cried no more. 8. After
that she bore another white bull, and after him she bare many
. Seth
bulls and black cows. 9. And in my sleep I saw that
white bull likewise grow and become a great white bull, and
from him proceeded many white oxen which resembled him.
10. And they began to beget many white oxen which re-
sembled them, one following the other (in due succession).
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 ate and pastured amongst those oxen.
2. And after that I saw the large and black oxen, and behold
(DRhl *!&X came forth other young bulls.' 5. But that black.
G omits ' but that.' Followed him. G M read ' followed them.'
6. For fln>7 'thereupon' G reads ^ftlh. 8. Another white
bull. For 'another' G reads Xl&h, 'a pair of white oxen': i.e.
and a sister to be his wife.
LXXXVI. 1. Pastured amongst those oxen. 2. And after
colour emblematic of his martyrdom. to the ' bulls ' also. 9. Bull.
4. Young bull. So I render ta'wa Rendering of s6r : see ver. 3. This
when it=vitulus, as in vv. 4, 5, 6. bull is Seth. The descendants of Seth
5. A heifer. The same word is used are likewise righteous like their pro-
of Eve in ver. 3. This heifer is Cain's genitor.
wife, and according to the Book of LXXXVI. 1. A star, i. e. Azazel
Jubilees iv. his sister, by name Avan. or Semjaza ; for we cannot be sure
Oxen. This is the rendering of the which of the two forms of the myth
plural of lahm, and includes bulls is followed here, as it differs from
and cows. 6. Eve seeks Abel. the account given in vi, where all
8. Another white bull, i. e. Seth, descended together. In the Talmud
but see Crit. Note. Black cows. (Weber, L. d. T. 244)
these angels
The adjective ' black * belongs probably descend together. 2. The result