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The Book of Enoch<br />
89.62 And write down all the excess and destruction, which is wrought by<br />
the shepherds; how many they destroy at my command and how many they<br />
destroy of their own volition. Write down against each shepherd,<br />
individually, all that he destroys.<br />
89.63 And read out in front of me exactly how many they destroy of their<br />
own volition and how many are handed over for destruction so that this<br />
may be a testimony for me against them. So that I may know all the deeds<br />
of the shepherds in order to hand them over for judgment. And I will see<br />
what they do, whether they abide by my command with which I have<br />
commanded them, or not.<br />
89.64 But they must not know this, and you must not show this to them, but<br />
only write down against each individual in his time all that the shepherds<br />
destroy, and bring it all up to me.”<br />
89.65 And I looked until those shepherds pastured at their times, and they<br />
began to kill and destroy more than they were commanded, and they gave<br />
those sheep into the hands of the lions.<br />
89.66 And the lions and the tigers devoured and swallowed up the majority<br />
of those sheep, and the wild boars devoured with them; and they burnt<br />
down that tower and demolished that house.<br />
89.67 And I was extremely sad about that tower because that house of the<br />
sheep had been demolished; and after that I was unable to see whether<br />
those sheep went into that house.<br />
89.68 And the shepherds and their companions handed those sheep over to<br />
all the animals so that they might devour them. Each one of them, at his<br />
time, received an exact number, and for each of them, one after the other,<br />
there was written in a book how many of them were destroyed.<br />
89.69 And each one killed and destroyed more than was prescribed and I<br />
began to weep and moan very much because of those sheep.<br />
89.70 And likewise, in the vision, I saw that one who wrote, how each day,<br />
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