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

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down from heaven, and they gathered and took all the great
stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and
bound them all hand and foot, and laid them in an abyss of
the earth.
LXXXIX. 1 . And one of those four went to that white bull
and instructed him in a secret, as he trembled :
he was born a
bull and became a man, and built for himself a great vessel
and dwelt thereon ; and three bulls dwelt with him in that
vessel and they were covered in. 1. And again I raised mine
eyes toward heaven and saw a lofty roof, with seven water
torrents thereon, and those torrents poured much water into
an enclosure. 3. And I saw again and behold fountains
were opened on the earth in that great enclosure, and that
water began to swell and rise upon the earth, and it hid
that enclosure from view till the whole surface of it was
covered with water. 4. And the water, the darkness, and
mist increased upon it ; and as I looked at the height of that
flood it rose above the height of that enclosure, and streamed
over that enclosure, and remained on the earth. 5. And
all the cattle of that enclosure were gathered together until
I saw how they sank and were swallowed up and perished in
cast (them) down from heaven, and they gathered. So G M.
Other MSS. :
' One . . . cast (them) down from heaven and gathered.'
LXXXIX. 1. To that white bull. So M. All other MSS.
• to those white bulls.' As he trembled. G inserts a negative
here: 'fearless as he was.' 2. Poured much water. G reads
J&a^rhH* 'flowed with much water.' 3. Hid that enclosure
from view. G : HCXf'. Ao*A*F: QK&. H :
h.C\T\ da^kVi h%£.
implication here, however, is that it see Crit. Note. In order to build the
is not Gabriel but another of the five Ark, Noah is represented as becoming
who is the agent of judgment. In a man. Three bulls. Noah's three
an abyss of the earth. In x. 12 sons. Covered in : cf. Gen. vii. 16;
1 under the hills.' En. lxvii. 2. 2. As men are
LXXXIX. 1-9. The Deluge and symbolized by animals, their place of
the Deliverance of Noah. 1. Cf. habitation is naturally called a pen,
x. 1-3, where Uriel visits Noah for fold, or enclosure. Seven: cf. lxxvii.
the same end. To that white bull 4 (note). 3, 4. The Deluge.