Book of Enoch Henok

CHAP. XCVI. 159
simple ones ; that you, often contemplating the
earth, you wJio are men, clothe yourselves more
elegantly ^ than married women, and both together
more so than unmarried ones, everywhere arraying
yourselves in majesty, in magnificence, in authority,
and in silver :
like water, flow away.
but gold, purple, honour, and wealth,
10. Erudition therefore and wisdom are not theirs.
Thus ^ shall they perish, together with their riches,
with all their glory, and with their honours
11. While with disgrace, with slaughter, and in
extreme penury, shall their spirits be thrust into a
furnace of fire.
12. I have sworn to you, ye sinners, that neither
mountain nor hill has been or shall be subservient ^
to woman.
13. Neither in this way has crime been sent down
to us * upon earth, but men of their own heads have
invented it; and greatly shall those who give it
efficiency be execrated.
14. Barrenness shall not be previously inflicted on
woman ;
but on account of the work of her hands
shall she die childless.
15. I have sworn to you, ye sinners, by the holy
and the Great One, that all your evil deeds are
^ put elegance upon you more. ^ And in it.
' a servant. Perliap;s in furnishing them with treasures for
ornaments.
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has our crime been sent down.