The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

238 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En«4i
blood was being shed, and falsehoods were being s\j>oken, and impieties]
were being perpetrated upon it, all [the days . . .] flood upon the earth [...]•
An alternative placing of En® 2 and 3 would be in the first Dream of Enoch, En. 83, if one
supposed a different recension of this chapter, but in my opinion this is less plausible.
4QEn« 4 i-En. 88: 3-89: 6 (PI. XX)
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i[a in*? xm ^a'?na ntn n^in H D V ] i-io
Knin p in "71; Knsfihx p imss. xynx ninna pn*?]
m n 311^1 m n a i s n"? n"? fi'?xi xmn]
iT'ODi n^sn xansn xms"? nas? x m n nn*?!!!] is
pDB? n»3B? pna xm ntii [n^inv pn^'?^ ]a]
xs7nx x m inTis | m n xm' [px"'3B? pa xs;nx V»]
pa n^Dn xyix iS7 ntn n*'in n3x[i n^'py "rya"?! nyan*?]
pyatji ps7j?!r x m n v m*?!? paxj? [nm (?)j?ncr) -jwrn^
x m n "731 x^a p x'ps? nnns na*is7v [I'px x^aa pnaxi] zo
t;acaf [|pa x^V^Di [x^'raii x m s i ]
[...«« 3And when I was looking in my dream and, behold, to one] of
[the four who had come forth it was ordered by Heaven; and all] the many
stars, [whose privy members were like those of horses, he bound] all of them
hand and foot and cast [them into the depths of the earth, 'And one of]
the four went to one of the [white] oxen [and instructed him]; and he made
for himself a ship, and dwelt inside it; [and the three oxen enter]ed with him
into the ship, and the ship was covered and roofed [over them, ^And I] was
looking and, behold, seven sluices pouring out [on the earth much water].
3And, behold, the (underground) chambers were opened in the interior of
the earth and (waters) began [to pour out and come upon it. And] I was
looking until the earth was covered by the waters ['^and by darkness and mist,
and they were] standing upon it. sAnd the oxen were submerged and engulfed