The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

End I xii FOURTH COPY 221
xniD r\DbT) b^ nmx T\b]m ]inhrfi[i minnn ni&^n np^as; n^m]
[ ]p^ay K^'pn "JIDV
nnani x^niD "PS; nna[nv ]na asina x"? I'p^'xi ^^n naonV
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[2« 7. . . the King of the world which stands] before Him, Who prepares
[such things for men (if they are) righteous; and] these things [He has
created and promised to give to them, lAnd from thence I was translated]
to the centre of the earth, [and I saw a blessed place in] which were trees
[whose branches bloomed with everlasting blossom. ^And there I was
shown a holy mountain, and] proceeding forth from beneath [the mountain,
water, from the East, and going down towards the South.
3And I saw to the East another mountain higher] than it, and between
them a deep valley [which was without breadth, with water proceeding
forth from beneath the mountain. ^And to the West] of it another mountain
[lower than it but without height, and a deep and dry valley underneath it
and] between these (mountains), and there was [another] valley [at (the foot
of) these three mountains. ^And all the valleys were deep and of hard rock,
and no tree was planted in them. ^And] I marvelled at the mountains [and
I marvelled at the valleys, and I marvelled exceedingly. iThen I said:
*Why is this land] blessed, and all of it [full of trees ...]
Texts for comparison: C and E.
L. I (En. 25: 7). The expression H^lllp^ belongs to a phrase omitted in G and E, probably
through homoeoteleuton: alwvos os .—The verb ^DM, icat cLnev
(Sovvai avTois), has here the meaning *to promise', as is often the case in the Canaanite and
Aramaic languages, e.g. Phoenician, Hebrew, Palmyrene; for the last dialect see Milik,
DddicaceSy p. 3.
LI. 1-2 (En. 26: i). The Greek verb i^whevaa els corresponds to the Aramaic b n*731X, 1
was transported (by the angels)', as in the preceding column, line 3 (En. 23: i), and in En® i
xxvi 18 (En. 32: 2). I retranslate TTapavdhas by 'branches' and not by 'young shoots', since
the choice of the Greek word was prescribed by rod SevSpov eKKoirevroSy which is a gloss peculiar
to C and E (Charles); is it a Christian anti-Jewish addition ?
L. 3 (En. 26: 2). The form reOeap^ai is equal to nX*'TnX, as in En