The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En* 4 iii FIFTH COPY 243
oppressed the sheep', in v. 19 of E. The verb 'j^'?!! is not attested in Judaeo-Aramaic, but
is found in Samaritan, in Christian Palestinian, in Syriac, and in Hebrew.
Ll. 18/19. The continuation of the verse differs in E and En®. The phrase 'until they destroyed
their little ones' was probably missing in the Aramaic manuscript, but roughly the same meaning
is conveyed by S7pl!?['' which, on the other hand, is missing in E. Besides, the direct
object of these phrases should be in the singular, so I restore: . • . Ifll IH ^1D.—I render
'the water-course', the Nile, by
a term denoting the Jordan in a pseudo-DanieHc
document of 4Q; see RB Ixiii (1956), 412-13.—I restore ][*'1K]3 ('and' E) to take account
of a final letter at line i of fragment d,
Ll. 20-1 (En. 89: 16). L. 20. To '(and a sheep) which had escaped (from the wolves)' in E
there corresponds in En® the verb [*1]ri2 which can be translated, according to the Hebrew
meaning of the word, by 'to run in flight'; for the usual Aramaic meaning see Dan. 4: 11.
L. 21. 'To lament, and to cry, and to beseech their Lord with all their might' E; the expression
'and to beseech their Lord' was no doubt missing from our Aramaic manuscript. 'With all their
might' probably translates an adverb of manner with the afformative D''^, -dytt, -d^it, very
widespread in the eastern Aramaic dialects, Syriac, Palmyrene, Hatraic, Mandaic, and also
in Christian Palestinian. Perhaps restore n*'D*'pn.
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4QEn« 4 iii—En. 89: 26-30 (PI. XXI)
[x^a*7 "OD Dim W£{
[nax p xjis?"? fDTi
"73 li? nm n^im»]
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Ti^K
vHi] "^T nnx xmns 1['7TXI ]*?X X''»;
x]r)[B?a'7] x^a^[]i]n'7 arr"! pn"? [xs7-i xis; xna is?]
xnjai ni in f][D mYii JP'PEO xnaxv' "rDxa"? K2m\_
[ ^yr\ ni]fn n[2S7 "jaip"? nxp XJS; xna xm rr-rn;
..] the waters, [and it arose until it covered the wolves. 27And I looked
until all] the wolves who were pursuing that flock [perished, sinking and
drowning, and] the waters covered them over. ^SBut [the flock departed from
those waters, and] they [came] to a wilderness, a place where [there was no
water nor] grass, and their eyes were opened [and they saw. And I looked
until the Lord of the sheep was pasturing] them and He gave them water to