‘Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness,
Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written,
And against whom no day of judgement shall be found.’
5. And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth
before the door of my house, and said to me: ‘Declare everything to thy
son Methuselah, and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous
in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator. 6. One year we will
leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy (last) commands, that thou
mayest teach thy children and record (it) for them, and testify to all
thy children; and in the second year they shall take thee from their
midst.
7. Let thy heart be strong,
For the good shall announce righteousness to the good;
The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice,
And shall offer congratulation to one another.
8. But the sinners shall die with the sinners,
And the apostate go down with the apostate.
9. And those who practise righteousness shall die on account of the
deeds of men,
And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.’
10. And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my
people, blessing the Lord of the world.
LXXXII. _Charge given to Enoch: the four Intercalary Days: the Stars
which lead the Seasons and the Months._
LXXXII. 1. And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting
to thee and writing down for thee, and I have revealed to thee
everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my
son Methuselah, the books from thy father’s hand, and (see) that thou
deliver them to the generations of the world.
2. I have given wisdom to thee and to thy children,
[And thy children that shall be to thee],
That they may give it to their children for generations,
This wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.
3. And those who understand it shall not sleep,
But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,
And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.
4. Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the
way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners in the reckoning of all
their days in which the sun traverses the heaven, entering into and
departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands
of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated
which divide the four portions of the year, which lead them and enter
with them four days. 5. Owing to them men shall be at fault and not
reckon them in the =whole reckoning of the year=: yea, men shall be at
fault, and not recognize them accurately. 6. For they belong to the
reckoning of the year and are truly recorded (thereon) for ever, one in
the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in
the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four
days.
7. And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning
thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years
and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me, =to whom= the Lord of the
whole creation of the world has =subjected= the host of heaven. 8. And
he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give
light to men—sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven
which revolve in their circular chariots. 9. And these are the orders of
the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals
and months.
10. And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch =that
they= enter at their times, in their orders, in their seasons, in their
months, in their periods of dominion, and in their positions. 11. Their
four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and
after them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months; and
for the three hundred and sixty (days) there are heads over thousands
who divide the days; and for the four intercalary days there are the
leaders which sunder the four parts of the year. 12. And these heads
over thousands are intercalated between leader and leader, each behind a
station, but their leaders make the division. 13. And these are the
names of the leaders who divide the four parts of the year which are
ordained: Mîlkî’êl, Hel’emmêlêk, and Mêl’êjal, and Nârêl. 14. And the
names of those who lead them: Adnâr’êl, and Îjâsûsa’êl, and
‘Elômê’êl—these three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one
that follows the three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders
of stations that divide the four parts of the year.
15. In the beginning of the year Melkejâl rises first and rules, who is
named †Tam’âinî, and sun† and all the days of his dominion whilst he
bears rule are ninety-one days. 16. And these are the signs of the days
which are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and
heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and leaves are produced
on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the rose-flowers, and
all the flowers which come forth in the field, but the trees of the
winter season become withered. 17. And these are the names of the
leaders which are under them: Berka’êl, Zêlebs’êl, and another who is
added a head of a thousand, called Hîlûjâsěph: and the days of the
dominion of this (leader) are at an end.
18. The next leader after him is Hêl’emmêlêk, whom one names the shining
sun, and all the days of his light are ninety-one days. 19. And these
are the signs of (his) days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and
the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and
ready, and the sheep pair and become pregnant, and all the fruits of the
earth are gathered in, and everything that is in the fields, and the
winepress: these things take place in the days of his dominion. 20.
These are the names, and the orders, and the leaders of those heads of
thousands: Gîdâ’îjal, Kê’êl, and Hê’êl, and the name of the head of a
thousand which is added to them, Asfâ’êl’: and the days of his dominion
are at an end.