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

244 Tke Book of Enoch. [Sect. IV.
everything that I shall command you that do ye. 60. And
I will deliver them over unto you duly numbered (lit.
l by
number ') and will tell you which of them are to be de-
stroyed—and those destroy ye" And He gave over unto
them those sheep. 61. And He called another and spake
" Observe and mark everything which the shep-
unto him :
herds will do to those sheep ; for they will destroy more of
them than I have commanded them. 62. And every excess
and the destruction which will be wrought through the shep-
herds, record, (namely,) how many they destroy according to
My command, and how many according to their own caprice,
and record against every individual shepherd all the destruc-
tion he effects. 63. And read out before Me by number
how many they destroy, and how many they deliver over for
destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against
them, and know every deed of the shepherds, so that when
I give over to them the sheep I may see what they do,
62. For fYfr&Pav G reads JP'W-A'. 63. How many they
destroy. So A D G L M O. Other MSS. and Din. add ' according
to their own caprice/ They deliver over. So GM J&^TflL.
Din. J&^TJPffl* 'are delivered unto them' (lit. they deliver to
them). That when I give over to them the sheep I may see.
G reads KWTTav*. M Jun>TJP«; a)Xav