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

232 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. IV.
that flood. 6. But that vessel floated on the water, while
all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank to the
bottom together with all the animals, so that I could no
longer see them, and they were not able to come out, but
perished and sank into the depths. 7. And again I saw
in the vision till those water torrents were removed from that
high roof, and the chasms of the earth were levelled up and
other abysses were opened. 8. Then the water began to
run down into these, till the earth became visible ; but that
vessel settled on the earth and the darkness retired and light
appeared. 9. But that white bull which had become a
man came out of that vessel, and the three bulls with him,
and one of the three was white like to that bull, and one of
them was red as blood, and one black ; and that white bull
6. Asses sank to the bottom. We have in •ftlTOD'i a*ft1*; Sr°&C
an idiomatic use of 9^S:C See Lexicon, col. 217 : practically
the same expression recurs in this verse, ' sank into the depths/
•frrtTcn*; ahfttl $({£: 'Bottom of the sea' may be expressed either
by y&di (\fhC or