The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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[. . . "And they began to bite and] to chase one [another; and the white
bull which was born among them begat a wild ass and a white bull-calf]
as well, and the wild asses [multiplied. ^^And this white bull-calf which was
sired by the white bull begat] a black wild boar and a [white] ram of the
flock [and the wild boar begat many wild boars and the ram begat] twelve
[sheep. ^3And when those twelve sheep had grown they gave one] of them
to the wild asses, and the wild asses [gave up that sheep to wolves, and the
sheep grew up among wolves. ^^And the ram led forth] all of the eleven
sheep [. . .]
Texts for comparison: En® 4 ii 11-17 and E.
LI. 24-6 (En. 89: 11). To the words 'and they began to bite one another' in E there corresponded
in the original 'and they began to bite and to chase one another'.
L. 25. ]''inS71: the plural has been kept in several manuscripts of E; other manuscripts in
the singular: 'wild ass'.
LI. 26-7 (En. 89: 12). 'A white sheep' in E is inaccurate, as the original has ]S7 *'T HDT
[nin], *a ram of the flock, [a white one]'.
L. 29 (En. 89: 14). X*1DT *l3ni in accordance with En« as against 'and the Lord brought'
in E.—]in^1D: E omits.
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