The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

204 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En«4
because the original text spoke here about the six gates for the sun and for the moon in the
West, corresponding to the six gates in the East (see En. 33: 2-3). Three gates in the South
(line 25), and three in the East ([nnj^n J^'SJIT) or rather []innn]^n, line 27), and also three
in the North (34: 2) and in the West (E om.), stand for the meteorological phenomena.
En. 34: 2-36: 2 summarizes ch. 76 of the Astronomical Book, adding confusedly other information
concerning the sky.
L. 24. |in''313C?n, 'their number', doubtless ends a phrase summarized in E by 'so many
portals (or: entrances) and so many exits'. After that comes a short gap; the following word,
begins a new clause which probably contained a text analogous to that of 33: 3 or
33: 4; see En® i xxvii 19-20.
LI. 25-6 (En. 36: i). According to E the three portals are for the south wind, for the dew,
for the rain, and for the wind. The fourth term seems to be corrupt.
LI. 26-7 (En. 36: 2). 'To the ends of the earth' as in E^ (Martin, p. 77) rather than 'to the
ends of the sky' (other manuscripts of the Ethiopic).
L. 27. 'small doors': probably ]*'2?D2?, a term which recurs in 5Q 15 i 8 {DJD iii, p. 188, s.v.).
LI. 27-8 (En. 36: 3). At the end of this verse I restore ]X**TN, 'fitting, proper (to them)',
rather than ]X'*TN(N)D, notwithstanding tarS'eyat ('the path which) is shown to them' in E.
LI. 29-30 (En. 36: 4). In line 30, after the word few traces of letters are left; the
reading ["^J^DK seems better than [n]D13.
[Fragments 2 and 3 of 4QEn'' are edited below, pp. 316-17, as 4QEnGiants*
9 and 10]
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